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   Yakima facing new challenges for next season....the following are reprints from BMXtalk......    ATTN: Yakima BMX Track T.O.
A news clip Re: antahum youth park bmx track?
and sorry Iv lost you email add one more time.......

*** Yakima Washington County Budget  ***

Yakima, Washington  ( .kapptv ) -- 11/18/2003
Four days of public hearings dealing with Yakima County's 2004
Budget began today. The county needs to trim another 400-thousand
dollars. There was a packed house in the commissioners hearing room
this morning. Local residents want to have a say on where the cuts are
made. Most in the room were from W-S-U Co-operate Extension.
It's facing a 34-thousand dollar cut. Martha Matthews deals with food
preservation at the extension office and says it's very important to the
county.

Matthews said, "There is a lot of the home canning and food preservation

done in the county we have not had any botulism for a while, i take
calls
all the time on food preservation questions."

Parks an rec is losing 100-thousand dollars. It wants to charge an
entrance fee to the antahum youth park to make up for it. Frank
rowland is worried that would keep low income and troubled kids
from using the B-M-X Bike Track.

Frank Rowland is Opposes the park entrance fee. He said,
"The kids who are coming to this track do not have to pay the
entrance fee, because that's already been picked up by the track
fee and it just will not take much for this track to go under."

The next public hearing on the budget is
schedule for tomorrow night in Grandview.

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Geneb...Wenatchee,Washington-USA
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 Below is a copy of a letter I sent to the editor of the newspaper. The county commissioners are cutting the parks budget 100,000 because of the commissioners wasteful spending. The park is going to impose a 3.00 fee per car per day or you can get a 25.00 pass per year on top of our rent. This will have negative impact on us and could force us to bulldoze and close our track for good. There are a lot of citizens attending meetings to try and solve this problem. But as you know government officials do the bulldozing over the taxpaying public.  To the editor — I keep hearing county commissioners on the radio saying Yakima County doesn’t have any money, that mandated services are taking it all. I don’t believe it. I believe they’ve wasted a lot of money on the proposed jail project on unusable sites and now on the controversial fairgrounds site. I’ve looked up the fair’s mission statement, which is to promote farming activities with citizens regardless of age. Will they have to change it to promoting incarceration activities? Because many people oppose the use of this site, the county’s going to spend more money fighting the lawsuit Al DeAtley says he’ll bring.
I think the county cuts police and parks budgets because they want to pass the three-tenths sales tax. I don’t believe the cuts are necessary. As track operator for the all-volunteer Yakima Valley BMX Track at Ahtanum Youth Park, I feel the proposed yearly fees, which could be $25 for a yearly parking pass for youth sports and with a $3 daily parking fee for those who don’t buy a pass, will adversely impact the track. None of the other 10 tracks in the state charge a parking fee. We already pay rent to the county for the track, which the public can use when we’re not racing. The new fees could force us out of Yakima completely.
None of this was necessary. They simply don’t care about anyone. I am ashamed I voted for these people. It won’t happen again.

Michael L. Bull
Yakima

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