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get to this Commission.
And then, secondly, just if I may for a moment
be able to address the issue of acquisitions because I
know it's troublesome and I do need to -- so you
understand a process that we have to go through and how
that is difficult for us.
Typically, as we identify parcels of land that
we may want to acquire, we have to go through an
internal process where we would put together something
that says we want to acquire this piece of land. That
then needs to move through our chain. It goes to the
Resources Agency, and ultimately it goes to the
Department of Finance, to make a determination whether
or not there's enough funding within the budget to have
that acquisition project move forward. This is all done
before the governor releases his or her budget, January
10th. So all of that is background noise. If we share
those processes with you, we then are not -- we're not
allowed to share them. It's confidential because
nothing is public until the governor's budget goes out.
So I share the frustration that we oftentimes are not
able to share exactly the formal process what we may be
doing. Of course, there are individuals that perhaps
may know, but that is not to say that we aren't working
hard. We're working very hard. And I think that that
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OHMVR COMMISSION MEETING April 5, 2011 MINUTES - APPROVED