Amador County Sends Letter to Gov. Brown

BLM's Samoa Dunes on Trust Fund Raid Hit List

As the Governor and Legislature discuss the budget (behind closed doors) today, HQ wants to share another letter from county officials asking Governor Brown to oppose any raid on the OHV Trust Fund’s grant program.

June 14, 2012 Letter from Amador County

http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/Amador_letter_OHV_Letter_of_Support.pdf

HQ wants to thank riders in other counties such as Humboldt County who are contacting their County Supervisors asking them to contact Governor Brown.

Please continue FAXing in your letters and letters from local government officials.

HQ Alert with FAX numbers and other info

http://thegeneralsrecreationden.blogspot.com/2012/06/hq-in-field-june-8-10-and-update-on-ohv.html

Keep up the pressure!

HQ WEEKEND UPDATE - Newspaper Highlights Raid on OHV Trust Fund

For the last several months, HQ has posted alerts, information, and narratives about government officials taking (some call it stealing) money from the user-pay/user-benefit CA OHV Trust Fund.


There have been hearings, letter writing campaigns, and other efforts to challenge the ongoing thefts from the OHV Trust Fund. There have also been a newspaper article or opinion piece or two on this subject but they have not clearly identified the OHV program as being completed user funded.

The goods news on the media front is that a local newspaper in the Lake Tahoe area got the story straight - for the most part -with interviews from the BRC, Tahoe Sierra OHV Club, and OHMVR Division.

March 27, 2011 Tahoe Daily Tribune
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20110327/NEWS/110329919/1056&parentprofile=1056


Anyway, HQ thanks all of you who made the effort to defend the OHV Trust Fund.

OHV ALERT - Attend Special OHV Commission Meeting on March 14 in Sacramento

As most HQ followers already know, government officials are once again proposing to “shift” (don’t know if it is loan or a take) $10 million dollars ($5 million from grants and $5 million from Division) out of the OHV Trust Fund. Also, there is a proposal to “sweep” (don’t know if it is loan or take) $21+ million dollars out of the OHV Reserve Fund.


Because of the thousands of letters and phone calls from extremely frustrated (some are even angry) OHV enthusiasts to your elected officials, park staff, and the OHV Commission, the Commission has scheduled a special meeting/hearing on this issue for Monday, March 14, 2011 in Sacramento.

HQ does not usually urge riders to take time off work or make a special trip (however thanks to those of you who do attend regular meetings) to attend regularly scheduled OHV commission meetings, but this is of such a critical nature that HQ is making a formal request for attendance to those who will be impacted by the shifting of funds out of the OHV program. Those affected stakeholders include OHV enthusiasts, FS/BLM recreation staff and law enforcement officers, county parks, local sheriff departments, search and rescue teams, county park departments, local police departments, and many others.


PLACE:

DoubleTree Hotel
2001 Point West Way
Sacramento, CA 95815

WHEN:
March 14, 2011 at 9:30 am

AGENDA:
http://www.ohv.parks.ca.gov/pages/1140/files/agenda_march_14_2011.pdf

LINKS TO AGENDA ITEMS:
http://www.ohv.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21853

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Riders, shop owners, aftermarket manufacturers, federal land managers, local law enforcement, county officials, affected businesses, and other stakeholders that will be impacted by this fiscal hit to the OHV program.

I will be there and I hope that many of you will come and take a stand with me and other members of the OHV family to fight against another raid on the OHV Trust Fund. Let’s put the “Trust” back into the Trust Fund.

See you there.