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  • Budget spends $14 million for river parkways,open space(Conservancies Alert-Sierra Nevada,Cascade)

    07/31/2004 5:55:06 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 47 replies · 717+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/31/04 | Don Thompson - AP
    SACRAMENTO (AP) - California is set to spend more than $14 million on new river parkways and open land in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges under the budget signed Saturday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Schwarzenegger sliced the nearly $50 million sought by Senate leader John Burton, D-San Francisco, because the two new programs will start halfway through the budget year. It was unrealistic to expect to spend all the money in just six months, budget officials said. The now-$4.15 million mountain program is contingent on legislative approval of a new Sierra Nevada Conservancy, a sweeping new government...