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COMMISSIONER KERR: And I doubt if it was going
to happen next year, but I think that because of the
physical urgency and the things that are happening with
OHV's budget that we should be looking very carefully at
this potential allocation of grant monies with an eye
towards projects that will be interrupted or adversely
affected by the budget crisis. And there's a way to
perhaps look closely at this Grants Program and see if
there's some high-priority needs that could be addressed
by making some discretionary modifications or perhaps
opening up the grants process, for example, to local
agencies, maybe a second round. Because as I see this,
the grant applications although they are in excess of
27 million, they are only mildly in excess. So compared
to most grants programs that we may all be familiar with
where you might have two or three to one application to
funding, here we're only slightly under-funded for all
the applications. And just I'd like to bring the
Commission's attention to the very small amount of money
that is suggested for acquisition. And I find that's
something that we should take a more careful look at.
This is the best time in probably 20 years to buy land.
And our own agency acquisition efforts are going to be
adversely affected by the budget crisis. I'd like to
suggest that there might be a way to deal with some
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OHMVR COMMISSION MEETING April 5, 2011 MINUTES - APPROVED