An amendment approved Monday in Senate Ways & Means represents a very good “win” for the WA Recreation & Park Association, the Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition, the Nature Conservancy, the Trust For Public Lands, and others who spoke out against the initial Senate package.

This moves the Senate very close to the House position.  Essentially, this takes the WWRP cuts down to $10.1 million to match up with the House – these are re-appropriations that are not under any kind of contract.  The amendment also gives the RCO authority to move account allocations around and it directs a study of major delays/re-appropriations, with a report back and recommendations by 10/1/10. 

WRPA has over 60 Commercial members who provide valuable services and supplies to the field of park and recreation.  We invite you to visit our commercial directory often and patronize the agencies who are supporting our industry through membership in WRPA.  More

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Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari

Chronic diseases are the most prevalent and costly health care problems in the United States.  Learn more about rising rates of chronic disease and their impact on our nation's health and health care costs in this brief PowerPoint presentation  Please attend The Healthy and Sustainable Communities Summit on April 15, 2010 in Tacoma to join us in a statewide effort to address the obesity crisis.  More