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CSPRA held its annual off-site meeting at beautiful Cuyamaca Rancho State Park on May 7th and 8th. Board Member Nedra Martinez hosted us at her house and we accomplished a great deal of planning for the next year. As discussed in another article in the newsletter (page 5), we have a new CSPRA Historian – thank you Pat Clark-Gray!
The Sierra Club asked CSPRA to support AB 2301, a new defensible space law. The CSPRA Board voted to support the bill. We are also revising our Scholarship policy. The Scholarships have been put on hold temporarily until we can tighten up our policy. We will have a new Scholarship policy out within the next two months. The Board voted to produce the Wave newsletters quarterly instead of every other month. This was basically due to the difficulty in getting articles and the need to reduce costs. Nedra Martinez is working with Jeff Price, CSPRA’s Webmaster, for a new look and updated contents on our Website.
The 2011 Parks Conference is still up in the air. We are discussing two locations with our partners, the Park Rangers Association of California: Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite or the Santa Monica Mountains. We have not had a Parks Conference in Southern California in many years and just recently had the |
conference in Tenaya Lodge. The Board is strongly supporting a Southern California conference. California State Parks Foundation presented an award to CSPRA for helping gather signatures for the State Park Access Pass initiative. Don Schmidt and I met with Director Coleman the end of May. This meeting was to update her on activities CSPRA was involved in and discuss what she would like to see CSPRA support. Among our topics of conversation were the private sponsorship of State Parks, this year’s budget, and of course the State Park Access Pass. We were pleased to hear that Headquarters is discussing strategic plans for “when” the Access Pass passes. She is hopeful, as we are, that we will be funded at the 2008/09 funding level for the 2010/11 fiscal year.
And lastly, and most importantly, besides the incredibly busy summer we will have with staffing shortages, CSPRA is putting all its efforts into campaigning for the State Park Access Pass.
The Board is working very hard in this most difficult time to support State Parks. We always appreciate any support you can give – newsletter articles, phone calls with suggestions, website information, etc. Thanks to all our members for your continued support. |
CSPRA's Home Office - Executive Manager, Allison Pedley,
P.O. Box 10606, Truckee CA 96162, (800) 749-8749 or (530) 550-1268
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