Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

GuitarPhotog, you will be happy to note that Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park and Bothe-Napa Valley State Park have been saved by local Napa Valley groups and are expected to remain open for at least the next 5 years. Here's the information on that:

http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/712/files ... agree2.pdf

Dean in Eureka, CA wrote:Some good news from our end of the state... Grizzley Creek, which was on the closure list has been spared.
Swimmers Delight/Pamplin Grove Ranger Pat will be adding Grizzley Creek to his list of county duties.

Governance
In recent years, a structural budget deficit existed in California. The deficit required a number of budget solutions to reduce state general fund expenditures to develop a balanced budget. Among these solutions was a proposal to close as many as 70 state parks. Extensive efforts, including the solicitation of donations, were undertaken by various groups to save California parks slated for closure. Despite the proposal to close a number of state parks and the related widespread news media attention, Parks continued to under-report fund balances to Finance for the development of the Governor’s Budgets over several years. Additionally, Parks implemented an unauthorized vacation buy-back program in 2011 allowing employees to “cash in” their accrued vacation hours. This resulted in employees cumulatively receiving $269,413 (from the SPRF). Parks implemented this vacation buy-back program at the time furloughs had been imposed on state employees and state parks risked closure. Because of the unauthorized vacation buy-back program and misreporting of fund balances, the Parks Director resigned and top executive staff were discharged from employment for allowing such improper activities to occur. Concerns were raised about the “tone at the top” and whether other improprieties had occurred. The former Deputy Director of the Administrative Services Division was responsible for the unauthorized vacation buy-back program and misreporting of fund balances as well as other critical business functions, such as accounting and procurement.

Summary of Budget Letter 12-22 Requirements
• Departments shall use their year-end financial statements as the basis for preparation of budget documents for the Governor’s Budget.
• Unless otherwise specified in law, the General Fund and special funds are accounted for and maintained on a modified accrual basis.
• Finance designates an administering department for each fund. The administering department is responsible for the overall management of the fund. BL 12-22 outlines the responsibilities of a fund administrator.
• Beginning with fiscal year 2012-13, each department head or his/her designee (who must be at least one level above both budgeting and accounting) is required to certify the following:
....o Past/prior year information provided to Finance is accurate and reconciles between budget accounting records.
....o Information is consistent with information provided to the Controller.

atahoekid wrote:Sharon,

Sorry I'm just catching up to this thread but now that camping season is coming, I'm wondering what if any impact on the parks this "discovery" has had to the operations and closures of the parks. I love California camping and would love to travel the Cali coast from the very North to about the Ventura area. (Grew up in LA so I've done the coast from LA to SD) Are the campgrounds open full time? I would guess that they are fully operation during the peak summer months but may close early or severely restrict operations during the "shoulder" months.