02-11-2016, 11:39 PM
I've been following this for a while, corruption and greed and its spreading to Idaho.
It looks like Utah dwr turned down $10,000,000 in guaranteed funds that would have gone directly to Utah wildlife. To ensure sfw received the contract. Why?
"Greg Sheehan, then administrative services chief of the DWR, acknowledged that the drafted rule didn’t address financial transparency but Wildlife Board member Lee Howard said that there wasn’t a need to, because the groups proposing to host the expo had “great track records” and didn’t need “more restriction.”"
"The first audit was performed in 2010 and encompassed the years 2007-2010 (which showed the $5.4 million raised through application fees) and an audit has been conducted every year since. They can be viewed in the RAC/Board Minutes materials section of the DWR website.
But the audits only show the gross revenue of expo permit applications. There aren’t details on how the MDF and SFW spent the money, or if it went toward conservation projects. "
"When asked how that money was spent, SFW President Jon Larson said that he guessed “the majority of it” was spent on conservation. However, Larson only recently became president of SFW and could not say for sure."
"During the fall of 2015, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation submitted a bid to host the expo for the 2017-2021 period. The elk foundation included a provision in their proposal promising that 100 percent of revenue from expo permit sales, in addition to half the of gross revenue from the expo, would go directly back to DWR-approved projects.
But the Wildlife Board ended up choosing the SFW and the MDF to host the expo again, citing a lack of detail from the elk foundation about how it would handle data security protocols.
On top of that, four of the seven current Wildlife Board members have direct ties to SFW, as either past presidents or committee members. While three of those people recused themselves from the vote, the fourth person, SFW member Donnie Hunter, cast the deciding vote."
http://www.standard.net/Recreation/2016/...-Expo.html
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It looks like Utah dwr turned down $10,000,000 in guaranteed funds that would have gone directly to Utah wildlife. To ensure sfw received the contract. Why?
"Greg Sheehan, then administrative services chief of the DWR, acknowledged that the drafted rule didn’t address financial transparency but Wildlife Board member Lee Howard said that there wasn’t a need to, because the groups proposing to host the expo had “great track records” and didn’t need “more restriction.”"
"The first audit was performed in 2010 and encompassed the years 2007-2010 (which showed the $5.4 million raised through application fees) and an audit has been conducted every year since. They can be viewed in the RAC/Board Minutes materials section of the DWR website.
But the audits only show the gross revenue of expo permit applications. There aren’t details on how the MDF and SFW spent the money, or if it went toward conservation projects. "
"When asked how that money was spent, SFW President Jon Larson said that he guessed “the majority of it” was spent on conservation. However, Larson only recently became president of SFW and could not say for sure."
"During the fall of 2015, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation submitted a bid to host the expo for the 2017-2021 period. The elk foundation included a provision in their proposal promising that 100 percent of revenue from expo permit sales, in addition to half the of gross revenue from the expo, would go directly back to DWR-approved projects.
But the Wildlife Board ended up choosing the SFW and the MDF to host the expo again, citing a lack of detail from the elk foundation about how it would handle data security protocols.
On top of that, four of the seven current Wildlife Board members have direct ties to SFW, as either past presidents or committee members. While three of those people recused themselves from the vote, the fourth person, SFW member Donnie Hunter, cast the deciding vote."
http://www.standard.net/Recreation/2016/...-Expo.html
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