S.B. 249 OHV Division Reauthorization Legislation

[Butch]

Edit 8/8/17; AB 1077 is dead. SB 249 is in the Assembly appropriation committee. What we need to do is register our opposition to the bill as written with our legislators. The letter to Senator Allen fro the OHV Coalition (post 36) describes the current irresponsible provisions well.

link to your find your legislators:
https://cqrcengage.com/amacycle/CA?0

Original post:
I just taliked to my assemblymember's office; SB249 has cleared the Senate and is waiting to be read in assembly. AB1077 is in committee.

Bills have to be passed by both houses before going to the to the Governor for approval or veto.

Page one here describes the process better than I have seen before: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pdf/Ch_09_CaLegi06.pdf

If someone could figure out how to post the diagram it would be cool.
I am too computer lame.

To monitor the progress, I understand one must go here http://assembly.ca.gov and here http://senate.ca.gov every day and see what is on the agenda, er, "Daily Schedule" and "Today's Events".

 

[KazMan]

Here ya go Sir

 

[Butch]

Awesome. As you can easily see (ha!) there are several opportunities for citizens to testify.

 

[budman]

Since the bills conflict is this a race to the Governors desk?

 

[Butch]

Since the bills conflict is this a race to the Governors desk?

I will look at the chart again. Then maybe go visit my assemblymember's office. or my Senator. S.B. 1 has some of this stuff too.

They like hearing from me. Us. Seriously.

 

[Butch]

I just checked here http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB249,
and it says that S.B. 249 is
"06/22/17 Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W."

Anyone want to tell us what that means?

 

[budman]

Please.

1077 is our goal.
249 is an environmentalist mole.

 

[ThumperX]

:bump

WRITE YOUR ASSEMBLY MEN NOW!!!!

heres a LINK from the AMA.

DO IT!!!

 

[Butch]

I added this text:
Please vote no on Senate Bill 249, which aims to destroy the State Park's areas for managed OHV recreation. This diversion of OHV user fees and fuel taxes will also bankrupt the grant system that keep many areas and forests healthy.

 

[budman]

You know what.. I am getting pissed that our government is shutting us out.

I cannot email Mr. Hill.
The email I have is rejected... then I go to my gmail and that is rejected too. What do I have to have?

Budman@Isuckmylegislatersass.com?? :mad

I have tried to call Mr. Hill, I have gone to public events to try to meet Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill obviously does not want to hear a negative voice to the voices that come from the couch... man I get so pissed at this shit.

 

[Butch]

You know what.. I am getting pissed that our government is shutting us out.

I cannot email Mr. Hill.
The email I have is rejected... then I go to my gmail and that is rejected too. What do I have to have?

Budman@Isuckmylegislatersass.com?? :mad

I have tried to call Mr. Hill, I have gone to public events to try to meet Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill obviously does not want to hear a negative voice to the voices that come from the couch... man I get so pissed at this shit.

Hey, I'll go to Hill's office as your agent. You have a staffer'c contact info, no?

 

[ThumperX]

Also might be good to start contacting Brown he slapped these a holes down a few years ago. This one is different though.

 

[Butch]

SB 249 seems to be in the in the committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife.

http://awpw.assembly.ca.gov

We need to figure out who the members are and as many of us as possible with something like this:

We ask you to strongly oppose SB 249 introduced by Senator Allen, a bill seeking to reauthorize the Off-Highway Motorized Vehicle Recreation Division of the Department of Parks and Recreation. This bill proposes to take away sound management from OHMVR and state vehicular recreation areas and replace it with:
· A never-ending supply of unnecessary reports,

· Irrelevant duplicate agency consultations

· Benefits to adjacent landowners

The OHMVR program was enacted in 1971, and has successfully managed off-road recreation in state vehicular recreation areas and given children and families safe places to recreate. SB 249 would produce no environmental improvements; only take away from recreationists, rural communities that host off-road recreation, and law enforcement efforts.

Those that oppose the continuation of off-road recreation in California have pushed hard to make SB 249 sound like something that would benefit environmental efforts, however all the bill would achieve is the elimination of off-road recreation at an $11 million price tag to the state.

 

[Butch]

Committee members...

I think you can contact them through the links on this link: http://awpw.assembly.ca.gov/content/members-staff

Eduardo Garcia (Chair) Dem - 56 Contact Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia
Capitol Office, Room 4140
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0056; (916) 319-2056
James Gallagher (Vice Chair) Rep - 03 Contact Assembly Member James Gallagher
Capitol Office, Room 2158
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0003; (916) 319-2003
Frank Bigelow Rep - 05 Contact Assembly Member Frank Bigelow
Capitol Office, Room 4158
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0005; (916) 319-2005
Steven S. Choi, PhD. Rep - 68 Contact Assembly Member Steven S. Choi, PhD.
Capitol Office, Room 2016
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0068; (916) 319-2068
Kansen Chu Dem - 25 Contact Assembly Member Kansen Chu
Capitol Office, Room 2160
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0025; (916) 319-2025
Laura Friedman Dem - 43 Contact Assembly Member Laura Friedman
Capitol Office, Room 2137
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0043; (916) 319-2043
Todd Gloria Dem - 78 Contact Assembly Member Todd Gloria
Capitol Office, Room 4162
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0078; (916) 319-2078
Jimmy Gomez Dem - 51 Contact Assembly Member Jimmy Gomez
Capitol Office, Room 3126
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0051; (916) 319-2051
Matthew Harper Rep - 74 Contact Assembly Member Matthew Harper
Capitol Office, Room 5126
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0074; (916) 319-2074
Marc Levine Dem - 10 Contact Assembly Member Marc Levine
Capitol Office, Room 5135
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0010; (916) 319-2010
Devon J. Mathis Rep - 26 Contact Assembly Member Devon J. Mathis
Capitol Office, Room 2111
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0026; (916) 319-2026
Blanca E. Rubio Dem - 48 Contact Assembly Member Blanca E. Rubio
Capitol Office, Room 5175
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0048; (916) 319-2048
Rudy Salas, Jr. Dem - 32 Contact Assembly Member Rudy Salas, Jr.
Capitol Office, Room 4016
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0032; (916) 319-2032
Tony Thurmond Dem - 15 Contact Assembly Member Tony Thurmond
Capitol Office, Room 4005
P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0015; (916) 319-2015
Jim Wood Dem - 02 Contact Assembly Member Jim Wood

 

[ThumperX]

It has been my experience that our assembly men are approachable-unless it's Hill who isn't. I learned a lot from Marc Levine over coffee. Mostly that for all the complaining the direct correspondence is pretty light.

It's really easy to communicate. You can do it via email, telephone, snail mail and your vote.

You don't need a whole lot of time, just copy and paste any number of already formatted letters print them, stick them in an envelope, or paste them into an email, or read them like a script. Just do it!!!

Also, go to the next in line in the event one of these stupid things actually passes. Gov. Brown did not allow the OHV funds to be raided when the last attempt made it through the process.

 

[budman]

Hey, I'll go to Hill's office as your agent. You have a staffer'c contact info, no?

I will look... I should have it.

 

[Butch]

Hill

I will look... I should have it.

Alex Kobayashi, field Rep, ALEX.KOBAYASHI@SEN.CA.GOV 650-212-3313
This is like the hour I have time to do this stuff. Big list of stuff to do today. Food and moto related. Bummer.

 

[Butch]

This just sent to Ed "the Chair" Garcia:
I ask you to strongly oppose SB 249 introduced by Senator Allen, a bill seeking to reauthorize the Off-Highway Motorized Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division of the Department of Parks and Recreation. This bill proposes to dissolve the existing sound management from OHMVR and state vehicular recreation and replace it with a cumbersome, ineffective and expensive program.

The bill is cleverly crafted to hobble the OHMVR Division to result in its demise.

The bill is supported by, and I suspect, crafted by, Celeste Garamendi and her anti OHV friends (“Save Tesla Park”, of which there is no such thing). It is a veiled ploy to increase the value of her husband’s ranch which is adjacent to one of the OHV parks (SVRA)

Contrary to what the supporters would have you believe, this bill would be an environmental disaster. The California OHMVR Division, in addition to operation the SVRAs, administers millions of dollars in grant money to help preserve County, State and Federal lands that see use of dirt roads for recreation. This includes hunting, fishing, geology etcetera.

The bill includes:
·         A never-ending supply of unnecessary reports,
·         Irrelevant duplicate agency consultations
·         Benefits to adjacent landowners

The OHMVR program was enacted in 1971, and has successfully managed off-road recreation in state vehicular recreation areas and given children and families safe places to recreate. SB 249 would produce no environmental improvements; only take away from recreationists, rural communities that host off-road recreation, and law enforcement efforts.
Those that oppose the continuation of off-road recreation in California have pushed hard to make SB 249 sound like something that would benefit environmental efforts, however all the bill would achieve is the elimination of off-road recreation at an $11 million price tag to the state.

Follow up phone call in a bit.

 

[ThumperX]

Hey Butch, GREAT letter.
I am trying to nail down Mark Levine this week.

 

[Butch]

I just talked to Chinook, the secretary for the Water Parks and Wildlife Committee, This bill is scheduled to be heard July 11.