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bearpaw:
It appears the WDFW budget is now the topic in the legislature.

At the start of the 2010 Legislative session WDFW was expected to take another reduction in the $1 million dollar (or so) range.  The mandate from the Office of the Governor was manageable.  The most recent action by the Senate in its version of the budget has created a serious situation for the department as it calls for a little more then $6 million in additional cuts.  Attached is a summary of the impact of these proposed cuts and the impacts upon the agency.

Comparison of House and Senate cuts: http://washingtonwolf.info/pdf/Fish_and_Wildlife_2010_Budget_Talking_Points.pdf

What are your feelings?

bearpaw:
Can't beleive none of you guys have comments about their budget.

whacker1:
I don't know enough about their budget to know where they would cut.  The one thing they do have a lot of is upper management.  I would like to see the cuts from the top down, but doubt that will happen.  The legislative agenda in Olympia, coming from the top down leadership has always been to cut services instead of adminstration of said services for the 10 years I have been active in politics.  I am sure that we will see more of the same in that regard.

Kain:
I will read this tonight when I get home but my feeling are that most government agencies have plenty of room to make cuts.  Just look at the recent post about the new position on global warming.  The problem is that these departments always make cuts where it will hurt the public the most as a way to punish us for wanting the cuts.  They will scream and cry about how many jobs will be lost and how detrimental this will be.  Truth is they could make smaller cuts across the board by finding efficiencies OR fully fund core programs and remove any fluff and/or pet projects.

bearpaw:
I agree with both of you, whacker and Kain. I'm afraid it will spell out in the end as a loss to wardens, hatcheries, core services, etc. as you have said.

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