PFBC's Fiscal Slope

[melody]

As you may have seen in the news recently, the Fish and Boat Commission is facing a challenging fiscal situation. Last month, the PFBC announced that it had made the difficult decision to close two hatcheries as the first step in a long-term plan to reduce operating costs.

In the March/April issue of Angler & Boater magazine, Executive Director John Arway discusses this decision in his Straight Talk column titled "Our Fiscal Slope."

To read Director Arway's column, visit their website by selecting: www.fishandboat.com/images/people/exec_dir/straight_talk/2013_03_04_cliff.pdf

[Dutch]

Well, that seems to be a good explanation and in black and white.

Interesting, the loss in fisherman due to license increases is very predictable. 8-9% or so, each time.

I'm also guessing that we really don't lose that many fisherman, just license sales.

[bawanajim]

This is exactly why so many of us despise the goverment and find it truely astounding that these people still have jobs.
They wastes 4 million dollars of tax payer money and then tell us how hard it is to budget enough money to operate their department on.
I think prison should be his next stop.


"The Fish and Boat Commission says closing the hatcheries is part of a strategy to narrow a $9 million funding deficit. Closing the hatcheries will save about $2 million.

Just three years ago, the state completed $4.3 million in repairs to the filter system and other fish-breeding stuff at the Bellefonte hatchery. And about half of that money was paid through Growing Greener grant dollars, said Rep. Gary Haluksa, Democratic chair of the House Game and Fisheries Committee.

Spending grant money to fix up facilities you turn around and close is questionable policy no matter how you slice it.

Fish and Boat Commission executive director John Arway told the House committee that they selected Bellefonte as one of the hatcheries to close because it is the most expensive hatchery operated by the agency. There will be no changes at the Linesville hatchery in Crawford County and the Corry hatchery in Erie County.

Haluksa said that the decision to close a facility so soon after the state spent money to renovate it cannot look good.

“That might come around and bite them in the (donkey) the next time they ask for grant money,” Haluska said.

He didn’t say donkey, by the way.


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[davetm]

Mar 13, 2013 6:14:47 GMT -5 bawanajim said:

I think prison should be his next stop.

That wouldn't be possible. The State is closing too many Prisons.

[bawanajim]

For the lack of paying customers?

[Dutch]

Mar 13, 2013 7:11:36 GMT -5 bawanajim said:

For the lack of paying customers?

No, because prisons are expensive to operate, so keeping criminals on the streets is cheaper.

If I ran the prisons, they'd be cheap to operate. Of course, I'd be hauled in front of a judge to defend my "cruel and unusual punishment" of prisoners.

[bawanajim]

If I were in charge of prisons we would have very few return customers.

[stan]

If i were in charge of prisons, we would have more than enough hands to remove failed cuts, plant new trees, and collect mast for future seedlings.

We would have more than enough hands to sort the recycling, mine the landfills for recyclable material.

We would have trash free highways and byways.

Our streams and river banks would be free of trash and acid mine drainage remediation would be addressed.

Operate each on a CCC style crew concept letting the jails much slimmer with the hard cases and those not capable of breathing the air with normal folks.

[bawanajim]

Mar 13, 2013 18:53:03 GMT -5 @stan said:

If i were in charge of prisons, we would have more than enough hands to remove failed cuts, plant new trees, and collect mast for future seedlings.

We would have more than enough hands to sort the recycling, mine the landfills for recyclable material.

We would have trash free highways and byways.

Our streams and river banks would be free of trash and acid mine drainage remediation would be addressed.

Operate each on a CCC style crew concept letting the jails much slimmer with the hard cases and those not capable of breathing the air with normal folks.

And the states unionized employees would have you replaced in no time!