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there on the acquisition. Next year's money is going to
be $5 million less than we had this year. Part of the
dynamic of the Grants Program that we have, it's a
little bit different than some other grants programs.
For instance, there's several big, large grants programs
in the department that are to build facilities, a lot of
these one-time type of expenses. A lot of our money
goes to daily operations. So when we lose $5 million
out of that next year, the operations portion is going
to go down. So some of those Forest Service, BLM,
county, et cetera, agencies that depend on that money to
keep their daily operations going are going to be
hurting there.
So while moving some money into acquisitions is
probably a smart move, we also have to balance that with
what the impacts might be to the ongoing operations in
some of the areas. So just a few things to toy with.
The last thought, by the way, just to remind
everybody, is we still don't have clarity on that
$1.1 million bump that comes every year for the
restoration. So when the bills were passed in --
someone might have to talk a little bit more in the
budget section coming up -- but when the bills were
passed that wrote in that the 5 million came from
grants, 5 million from operations, it didn't specify
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OHMVR COMMISSION MEETING April 5, 2011 MINUTES - APPROVED