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First one, under the scoring, and it's an item that
might promote some efficiency from the agencies that are
submitting their request for grant funding, and that's
to have a scoring criteria that lists the percentage of
the actual on-the-ground work that's being done. How
much money is going to on the ground, the people that
are doing the work, the equipment necessary, the
materials necessary versus the overall grant request? I
know in this round of grants there's a couple of -- that
I notice where only about 40 percent of the grant money
was going to be used on the ground; the other 60 percent
was going to be overhead management-type positions. And
something like this would work in the restoration
sections, the ground operations where they're actually
doing trailer work, facilities maintenance and such, and
even law enforcement. How many of the law enforcement
people are actually out there doing the patrolling
versus their supervisor sitting in the office? I think
the program needs to have some efficiency aspects going,
and I believe this could be something that could be
instituted into the regulations.
Another item I would like to see on -- from the
agencies is what is their budget for the OHV Program.
And that's before they get any grant monies. So we can
see are we funding their whole OHV Program or just a
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OHMVR COMMISSION MEETING April 5, 2011 MINUTES - APPROVED