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State OffRoad Vehicle Parks to Close Dec. 2017 - S.B. 249

byke said:
It's a license plate though, I don't think that's considered public info, is it...? At least it doesn't seem like it should be.
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here you go:

The statute governing the availability of DMV records is California Vehicle Code 1808(e). This vehicle code states that “all records of the department relating to the registration of vehicles, other information contained on an application for a driver's license, abstracts of convictions, and abstracts of accident reports…shall be open to public inspection during office hours.” Veh C 1808(e) restricts disclosure of some information as required by law.

When disclosing registration or license information, the DMV is constrained by the Driver's Privacy Protection Act per Vehicle Codes 1808.21-1808.23.

Personal Residential Information

California Vehicle Code 1808.21 prohibits access to personal residence details unless sought by law enforcement, the court, or another government agency pursuant to Vehicle Code Sections 1808.22 or 1808.23. DMV is authorized to limit access to information depending on the reason for the request per Veh C 1808.21(b). Section (d) allows a driver whose information is recorded by DMV to request that no information is released be released to anyone (aside from the exceptions in section (a)) upon a showing that the person is being stalked or in danger of bodily injury or death. The personal request for suppression of records is valid for a one year period, however it can be extended for up to two additional periods.
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California Vehicle Code Section 1808.21

(a) Any residence address in any record of the department is confidential and shall not be disclosed to any person, except a court, law enforcement agency, or other government agency, or as authorized in Section 1808.22 or 1808.23.
(b) Release of any mailing address or part thereof in any record of the department may be restricted to a release for purposes related to the reasons for which the information was collected, including, but not limited to, the assessment of driver risk, or ownership of vehicles or vessels.  This restriction does not apply to a release to a court, a law enforcement agency, or other governmental agency, or a person who has been issued a requester code pursuant to Section 1810.2.
- See more at: http://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-1808-21.html#sthash.drqG8raa.dpuf
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Frequently Asked Questions (http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29225)

July 2016

Organizational Structure FAQs (pdf)

What is the California Department of Parks and Recreation’s Transformation Effort?

In 2015, the State of California developed a Transformation Team to help strengthen the California Department of Parks and Recreation (State Parks) through a series of initiatives-supporting strategic goals, such as improving visitors’ experiences and making the system more relevant to a broader and more diverse population.

The Transformation Team is comprised of experienced department staff, stakeholders and outside experts.

What is the Transformation Team initiative related to the organizational structure at State Parks?

The Transformation Team was tasked with reviewing State Park’s organizational structure in order to identify opportunities to elevate and strengthen the department’s programs and the services they provide to the public.

The Transformation Team has completed this task. State Parks will now take this initiative out of the Transformation effort and engage with staff and stakeholders as it develops a new organizational model – the Organizational Structure Opportunities Project.

Is the Transformation Team proposing to eliminate the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division or the Division of Boating and Waterways?

No. The Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division (OHMVR) and Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) are both leaders in recreation. The goal of the Organizational Structure Opportunities Project is to enhance and strengthen the services State Parks provides to the public.

Is the Transformation Team proposing to eliminate any of the services from OHMVR and/or DBW?

No. The goal of the project is to better support all of the programs and services provided by State Parks.

Would the special funds from OHV and DBW be intermixed with non-special funds?

No. State Parks has and will continue to separate special funds from other funds utilized by the department.

Is State Parks proposing a new organization model in order to gain access to the special funds from OHV and DBW?

No. State Parks has and will continue to separate special funds from other funds utilized by the department.

Will staff from be laid off when this organizational structure happens?

The new structure may result in shifts in how personnel will be organized, however no staff will be laid off through this process.

What are the next steps in the project?

In the upcoming months, State Parks will engage staff and stakeholders to discuss the project and gather important input. This process is also expected to yield additional ideas on how a new organizational structure would improve the delivery of services. The feedback during this process will inform the development of a new organizational structure.

The resulting organizational structure will be detailed in an operational transition plan report, which is a standard report developed by state departments to outline how it will move from the current organization structure to a new model. The transition plan will serve as the guiding document for State Parks to implement any proposed changes in accordance with all laws, rules, policies and established best practices.

Will there be an opportunity for the public to engage in the Organizational Structure Opportunities Project?

Yes, communication and the management of the changes as the department transitions to a new model will be of key focus. State Parks has established an online resource for the public to comment on the process online at www.parks.ca.gov/ShapingOurFuture.

On this website you can also find information on open house meetings that State Parks will be hosting in order to provide the opportunity for public engagement in this process. The first open house will take place July 19, 2016 in Sacramento. Please visit the website for more information.
 
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Wow, that FAQ is very cleverly worded...
Nothing to see here, all is well, move along
 
I posted my letter and received my email confirmation. Thanks Butch for all the hard work and dedication to the future wellbeing of our recreation and sport.
 
Carnegie Forever post:
The Chapter in the Public Resources Code that created the Division of OHMVR as a separate Division within the California Parks and Recreation Department has a sunset clause that eliminates the Division if the legislature does not reauthorize it before January 1st 2018. It appears that our opponents have taken this opportunity to organize hostile political forces in Sacramento to eliminate the CA Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division (OHMVRD).
The state parks transformation team is recommending that OHMVD be moved back into the Offices of the Department of Parks and Recreation. This would eliminate the District of Off Highway Motor Vehicles as a separate unit of State Parks and Recreation which includes OHV-related grant funding to the Forest Service, BLM, counties, local sheriffs’ departments, non-profit trail and conservation groups.
Under this proposal the dedicated OHV funds raised from off road riders would be comingled and likely directed to non-OHV facilities and uses. These funds consist of our registration fees, entry fees and fuel taxes used in our off-road vehicles. Our enemies have long coveted our OHV funds for non-OHV use. The program has been reauthorized in the past but now they are using this provision to eliminate the program and take our OHV Trust Funds for their own use.
Don Amador who is a tireless OHMV advocate says this about the proposal:
“Based on what I know today, I believe the Transformation Team’s proposal has nothing to do with improving government efficiency. Rather, it is a crass political maneuver to eviscerate the OHV program and lay the groundwork for permanently sunsetting the program on January 1, 2018.”
“The good news in the dark aforementioned potential future of OHV is that there are millions of motorized recreationists who can speak up as a strong political force against the Transformation Team’s plan”.
“Your loud voice was heard 20 years ago to save the CA OHV program and now government officials in Sacramento need to hear from you once again!”
http://thegeneralsrecreationden.blogspot.com/
What can we do specifically?
There will be an open house to allow stakeholders to comment on this proposal on Tuesday July 19, 2016 in the Resources Building Auditorium at 1496 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 945814. Stakeholders include OHV riders and adjacent land owners. Many of the conservationists who are opposed to OHV recreation in California are not stake holders.
The open house will provide a forum for the public to learn about this Organizational Structure Opportunities project from the Department, and for the Department to hear from the stakeholders. The members of the OHMV Commission have been invited to attend. Our opponents will be there and we need to do everything possible to make sure our voices are heard.
We also need to send letters to the committee, our representatives and Secretary Laird. See: http://www.savecaliforniaohv.org/
We need to be heard. This is too important to ignore if you love to ride off highway motor vehicles and ride in California. The future of off-highway recreation in California is up to you. Go to these sites and learn all you can about this proposal and how it will affect our right to ride. Then go to the meeting if you can and write letters to the people who are in charge. We have no time to lose!
Diana Tweedy, for Carnegie Forever Inc. Board of Directors
 
I call BS on keeping funding separate.
The way the OHV funds have been treated historically tells the tail.

No in 2017 will become possibly by 18. Likely in '19 and yes in '20.
 
I just moved a lot of links to my first post for easier reference.

Some personal thoughts of mine after wading through the bullshit:
Information is scattered, and linked within links and written with some obfuscation.

What I think the “Transformation” will try to do is bring OHV under general park operation, eliminating to commission’s authority to do what they judge best for that division of the park system.
More significantly, they want to use the OHV funding stream that has been set up for exclusively OHV on other issues.
 
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Somehow just hearing about this. I have stolen your first post, edited for local links, and posted in on our Sacramento forum.
 
wingnutthehutt said:
Somehow just hearing about this. I have stolen your first post, edited for local links, and posted in on our Sacramento forum.
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Thank you.
The current set of facts will be revealed tomorrow. i will try to summarize what I can get.

Please share contacts with me if you would. AMA is our primary contact, though we work with many others, CORVA being very competent. I do have a big list.
 
Butch said:
Thank you.
The current set of facts will be revealed tomorrow. i will try to summarize what I can get.

Please share contacts with me if you would. AMA is our primary contact, though we work with many others, CORVA being very competent. I do have a big list.
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Your info is probably better than mine. We just have different regional representatives to harass. I had planned to make it over last night with the City Bike crew (literally less than a mile) but family obligations took precedent.
 
Not sure on anyone else's take on the meeting held July 19th by Director of State Parks, Lisa Mangat, but I will give you some background. The Transformation Team she spoke of several times, speaking as if she has no control because this Team has SPOKEN, as some booming voice from Heaven. This Team did not have a single person representing the OHV program on it. When it was pointed out to Sacramento they quickly scrambled and said they did have a representative, Jared Zucker, but if you look him up on the St Parks website for the Transformation Team you will notice he works for the Dept of Boating of Waterways, NOT the OHV program. He did however, work for a few years as a low level wonk at OHV Division but never worked in an ohv park or in matters that allows him to speak for the entire OHV program as part of this transformation team. So, NO OHV Representation, yet these guiding plans have been made? Interesting... Mangat spoke as if her hands were tied and she was only following orders, but in the same breath spoke as if she had the power to move mountains, I'm confused, and I think she is too. The worry is that if the OHV division is moved into St Parks, then the money will follow. She tried to say that it would not happen, but in the same breath said it was not up to her...ie... Gov Brown and Dept of Finance pull the strings. So again, I'm confused, you have power but you don't. You want to promise OHV funds will not be stolen but you are not the final say. More background, how would things look if only the SVRA's as she proposed were operated by regular St Parks. Well, lets look at where it is currently and has been for years, happening that way. Mammoth Bar, anyone know this place? So Mammoth Bar was at one time a SVRA and under the OHV Div. Now, it is part of regular St Parks as part of the Gold Fields District, part of Folsom Lake, Auburn, Coloma etc...but is overseen by Auburn. The park is known by the staff there as the "Step Child" to Folsom Lake since it is where the HQ is located. Mommoth Bar is only open 3 days a week, the trails and track are never maintained. They keep a dozer parked there, but they have not had a operator to use it for over a year and a half....what you say. The OHV program still funds the entire park, yet nothing happens there with the money. I was told a operator from Prairie City now has to go over there to fix the track once a month, oh there is some efficiency you can see coming your way if regular parks start running ohv parks. Mammoth Bar is still getting ohv money to run it, but they have no operator, where's the money going, its only open 3 days a week, where's the money going, the dozer is a 1996 with hardly any use on it, but Auburn regular park seems to have lots of new vehicles, where's the money coming from, give you a guess? This is a case of, you don't need to wonder how your ohv parks will be run if merged into regular parks, or if your ohv money will be "comingled", its already been happening for a long time and with dismal failure, you just didn't know it. It is likely that Mangat and Gov Brown will simply wait for the ohv program to end as part of the Sunset clause on the program, then find a way to move the gas tax into regular St Parks. You have to remember, the gas tax can be legislated to go anywhere, but the green/red sticker money has to go to ohv. But that money is not enough to operate the program with the SVRA's and the Grants program. Unless the ohv program gets a legislator to submit legislation to continue the ohv program as it is before the Sunset, and get Gov Brown to say ok to it, which is not likely since he obviously wants to divert the gas money to regular St Parks, then we will see what we will see. If its more of Mammoth Bar, then hold on. The staff in the ohv parks hate the idea of a merge, I was told they believe the SVRA's will become the new step child. Also, Mangat never seemed to comment on how she felt about the current ohv money being taken from ohv and given to park, it was $112 million and $31 million. These were repayments from the last CORVA lawsuit that made the State pay ohv back if they took ohv funds from the ohv trust fund, they finally repaid it, but it went to regular parks to bail them out. The funny thing is, the money was made up of both gas tax and red/green registration fees. How does Gov Brown get to give clearly mixed funds to St Parks, sounds like another lawsuit, how does one justify taking money clearly written into law as part of the Chappie Z' Berg act as ohv money, being sued by Corva to be made to pay it back, then just giving it to regular parks like its no big deal? So much fun.
 
We do have OHMVR Commissioner Ted Cabral on the TRANSFORMATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

Director Mangat was trying to convey to us what management powers she does and doesn't have. She does have to report to the Governor, her boss.

Please remember that the OHV Program that we now have is scheduled to sunset (go away) in Jan. 2018, unless the sunset is extended or removed or a new/modified program is put into place by the legislature.

The $112M and $31M were put into the budgets as borrowed with a payback date. CORVA did not sue for the return of the funds. The money going into and already in the OHV Trust Fund is always in a position of being reappropriated. All it takes is a voted on entry in the annual state budget.

Ride on
Brewster
CORVA board member
 
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Southern CA Meeting

NOTICE OF OPEN HOUSE California Department of Parks and Recreation
July 27, 2016

The California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) serves the public by bringing families and friends together and providing an wide array of recreational opportunities for the benefit and enjoyment of all people while protecting and preserving California’s most significant natural and cultural resources. DPR accomplishes this not only through delivering services to 280 parks across the state, but also through programs that support local, regional and national recreation activities.

The Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division (OHMVR) is a vital program that is recognized across the country as the leader in off-highway vehicle recreation. While DPR operates nine state vehicular recreation areas, the vast majority of recreation occurs on other lands supported through this robust division.

On June 3, 2016, DPR Director Lisa Mangat provided an update to the California Off- Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission and members of the public on the department’s Organizational Structure Opportunities Project (Project). At that meeting, Director Mangat stated that there would be additional opportunities for public engagement in this process.

The public is invited attend an open house to learn about the effort to review DPR’s organization structure. Through the Project the department seeks to identify opportunities to elevate and strengthen all of its programs, including OHMVR and the services it provides. (Information on the Project can be found online at www.parks.ca.gov/ShapingOurFuture.)

The open house will provide a forum for the public to learn about the Organizational Structure Opportunities Project and for DPR to hear from the stakeholders. The members of the California Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Commission have been invited to attend; the commission will not be taking any action on any matters at this open house.
 
this is good:

OP ED
By Don Amador
Date: July 27, 2016

I want to commend the CA State Parks/Transformation Team about its ongoing effort to solicit input from the OHV community and related-stakeholders.

The announcement today about an August 11, 2016 “Open House” meeting in Ontario, CA, is a good sign that agency leadership is making a genuine attempt to ensure the long-term viability of the CA Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division (OHMVRD).

I believe those letters you have been sending in and meetings you have been attending have given the Transformation Team some food-for-thought about its initial proposal to move OHMVRD back into the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR).

I believe the commitment (see link below with FAQs and meeting info) by State Parks that it will continue to separate special funds from other funds utilized by the department is a very positive development in that special funds from OHV would not be intermixed with non-special funds.

LINK TO DPR/TRANSFORMATION TEAM WEBSITE
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=29225

Based on my 26 years of experience with CA State Parks and the OHV program, I believe that move would devastate OHMVRD’s ability to manage its highly acclaimed system of State Vehicular Recreation Areas (SVRAs). It would also impact the grant program that supports managed OHV recreation on Forest Service and BLM lands, restoration projects, law enforcement, and safety programs.

It is important to remember that the OHV program has a distinct mission that is often lost in DPR where there has been a corporate or institutional movement to end or severely restrict motorized recreation, MTBs, and horses on DPR lands.

I want to encourage OHV enthusiasts and partners to continue their efforts to engage with the Transformation Team so as to educate them on the important role that OHMVRD has in providing environmentally-sound OHV recreation on county, state, and federal lands in California.

The OHV community should continue to remind the Transformation Team about the historic deep level of distrust that exists between users and the DRP. Efforts should be made to restore that trust. Also, organizational safety mechanisms should be put in place to protect the integrity of OHMVRD.

Users should argue against any changes that might negatively impact SVRA operations or grant funding to federal and county partners.

I don’t believe we are out-of-the-woods yet in regards to protecting the CA OHV program. Please continue your efforts to make your voice heard as the transformation process continues over the next few months.

You are making a difference!
 
Yes it is.

Fight on...! :thumbup
 
Awesome stuff. Don, if you happen to read this, I want to thank you for all that you continue to do for us. I have enjoyed meeting you at Stonyford a couple of times (the second of which you pulled my sticker for the sheetiron due to my janky exhaust). :laughing Keep it up, and I'll certainly be doing my part. :thumbup
 
From ARRA, which everyone should join.
Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area
Family riding, Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area, Alameda and San Joaquin Counties, California

California State Parks
Some of the premier OHV riding area in California are managed by the State’s Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division which comes under its parent agency, the Department of Parks and Recreation. There is a movement afoot to do some reorganizing of that agency and there is a concern by some that the unique attributes of the OHMVR program might be lost in that reorganization. California OHV enthusiasts are on top of this issue and are actively engaged in discussions with state officials.

Reorganization issues are never easy. So far there seems to be very good engagement on the part of all interested parties. The wider OHV community is fortunate that California OHV enthusiasts are totally focused on how this reorganization is taking shape and are actively working to protect OHV interests.

Sincerely,

Larry E. Smith
Executive Director
Americans for Responsible Recreational Access (ARRA)
 
Bottom line:
our programs go away in December 2017. We, that is all of us, need to let our legislators know that this is important, lest we are left with nothing.
Not only do the green/ red sticker funds go to maintain our SVRAs (Hollister etc) but there is a tremendous grant program for maintenance and conservation.

We each need to have some personal contact with our state assemblymembers and state senators to let them know this is important, and we vote, and we have many friends who vote. That, and we are trying to save the planet. All the area between OHV tracks is habitat. Compare that to a golf course. Grrrrr.
 
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