John Ferro
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12/21/2019 10:43 AM
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From: Stewards of the Sequoia <Stewards_of_the_Sequoia@mail.vresp.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2019 9:51:02 AM
To: jaferro@aol.com <jaferro@aol.com>
Subject: SOS-Stop Out Of Control OHV Grant Audits
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Stop out of control OHV grant audits
Dear John,
Your California OHV Green Sticker Program is demanding $115,000 refunds of successful trail grants.
Your help is needed to
send a letter opposing these out of control OHV grant audits.
There is no justification for any grant refunds.
In fact trail groups like Stewards of the Sequoia, Stewards of the Sierra and Clovis 4x4 and others have provided
50% more work and 50% more volunteerism than agreed to in the OHV grant contracts.
Yet State Parks recently issued a misguided audit finding to those groups and other non profit grant recipients, claiming more than 34% of the grant expenses as "unsupported" and are demanding them to refund $115,000. But, to be clear,
State Parks had already approved all these expenses, yet now a different department is demanding these small non-profits returns funds expended on needed trail maintenance.
- These trail maintenance organizations run the most cost effective grants performing difficult remote trail maintenance for as little as $175 a mile. Far less than most other grants. Clearly OHV money well spent.
- This bureaucratic nightmare is forcing trail non-profits to hire attorneys, spend hundreds of hours compiling documents, and ultimately, will force them out of existence if this isn’t stopped.
- Future OHV trail grant projects will be cancelled unless these out of control audits are stopped.
- Off Roaders must speak up now to oppose these ridiculous refund demands and to stop your OHV registration and gas taxes from being used to pay for these audits persecuting successful trail maintenance organizations.
CLICK HERE TO SEND A LETTER TO LEGISLATORS TO STOP THE OUT OF CONTROL OHV AUDITS
Please forward this email to other off roaders so they can take action to stop their OHV dollars being wasted on these out of control audits harming OHV trail projects.
John please take action now and
send your letter!!
https://www.opencampaign.com/petition/stop-out-of-control-audits-harming-non-profit-ohv-trail-maintenance-projects/8177
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Stewards of the Sequoia
PO Box 1246
Wofford Heights, California 93285
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