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Your Opinion - WDFW Budget Cuts
Shootmoore:
--- Quote from: bearpaw on March 03, 2010, 11:39:31 AM ---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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I'm afraid your right bearpaw. The last round of budget cuts was a bottom up approach. Instead of whacking off some of the fluff on the top. I imagine they are going to once again keep the managers and cut the worker bee's. I have to wonder why we need a director of everything today? It used to be a director, assistant director, 1 guy in charge of Fish and 1 for Game. Now you have a furbearar, elk, deer, predator, wolf, salmon recovery, fish, cougar, bear, etc etc etc who are all based in Oly. Now they are making a climate change manager? My brother is a worker bee for the state, he will be lucky to survive this round of cuts. Even though he works at 3 hatcheries now since the last round of cuts, because they do not have the number of worker bee's to cover each hatchery.
Shootmoore
Wacenturion:
It's always been bottom up. To get top down first thing on the agenda is getting a Director who not only knows where to start at the top, but also has the you know what's to do it. Never going to happen in our life time......too much of the not rock the boat with upper management and the commission. Sad thing is...is so easy to make that agency efficient if it was necessary.
bearpaw:
Since the legislature is looking over these cuts, would it do any good to ask the legislators to force the cuts at the top?
Kain:
--- Quote from: bearpaw on March 03, 2010, 05:27:59 PM ---Since the legislature is looking over these cuts, would it do any good to ask the legislators to force the cuts at the top?
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Thats a good idea. It cant hurt thats for sure.
The "core" functions of the department need to be defined and they should be told that anything that does not fall in one of those should be reviewed and then justified before funding. They need to look into partnering and sharing data with neighboring states and splitting the costs or just using the data from others states when they can. Subbing out some functions to private companies should also be looked at.
Curly:
I wonder what the wolf budget is? :dunno: They should get rid of anything to do with helping wolves.
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