January 2011 - Parks & Recreation - 13

State Budget Crisis * 11

Park Weddings * 22

State Park Facts * 14

Creating Park Districts * 24

Celebrity Help * 16

Dogs Best Friend * 27

How We Did It * 18

Leadership Exchange * 28

Who, What, Where & how-Around the Parks

U P DAT E

Still in Crisis
The hits keep on coming
for state parks
By Richard J. Dolesh

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Ronald DeVries / Flickr

he National Bureau of
Economic Research, in
a tortured bit of logic, declared in September that
" the Recession is over. "
Few observers of state and local economic conditions would agree, and the
continuing cuts to the budgets of U.S.
state park systems reflect the harsh reality that for the states, the recession is
definitely not over. As state budget troubles continue, the outlook for most state
park systems remains grim.
According to the recently released
Biannual Fiscal Survey of the States of the
National Governor's Association and the
National Association of State Budget Officers, revenues may have grown slightly
in the past six months, but the lingering
effects of the two worst years since the
Great Depression have seriously compromised the ability of many states to provide traditional services to their citizens.

The NGA report predicts states will continue to make budget cuts, including additional mid-stream cuts throughout FY
11, and asserts that to balance state budgets, states will either cut programs and
services further or shift their costs to user
fees or other sources of revenue.

Less than Stimulating
Double-Whammy
Compounding the stagnant state economies is the double-whammy of the loss of

federal stimulus funds. According to NGA,
the federal funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that
helped states pay teachers, fund state construction projects, and supplement law enforcement operations, increased the total
federal share of states' budgets from one
quarter to one-third of their total budgets.
The stimulus ended January 1, and there
is little sentiment in the U.S. Congress to
provide additional bail-outs for the states
and cities.

If you have a place where you can go and
have a picnic with your family, it doesn't
matter if it's a recession or not, you can
include that in your quality of life.
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-Jim Fowler, Conservationist

	

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