02/08/2010 03:30 PM Senate RESOURCES

                                                                                                                                
        SB 195-MAKE GOLDSTREAM PUBLIC USE AREA PERMANENT                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
3:34:19 PM                                                                                                                    
CO-CHAIR   WIELECHOWSKI   announced  SB   195   to   be  up   for                                                               
consideration. He  noted that the  committee heard  no opposition                                                               
to it last week.                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR JOE THOMAS,  sponsor of SB 195, commented  that he didn't                                                               
want  people to  think that  he had  overstated the  situation in                                                               
saying that  the Goldstream Public  Use Area is the  Central Park                                                               
of the  Goldstream Valley.  There are  no facilities  that anyone                                                               
needs  to  maintain   and  it  gets  passively   managed  by  the                                                               
Department of  Natural Resources  (DNR). All  the work  that gets                                                               
done, like  grooming the trails, is  on a volunteer basis  and no                                                               
money gets spent on it.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR WIELECHOWSKI said the bill  has had nothing but unanimous                                                               
support.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
SENATOR  WAGONER  moved to  report  SB  195 from  committee  with                                                               
individual  recommendations and  attached  fiscal note(s).  There                                                               
were no objections and it was so ordered.