RE: I agree
>Anytime someone takes a Public Resource
>(tags) and converts them to
>a "Private" Resource, there needs
>to be Full disclosure, proper
>accounting, and proper reasoning for
>doing such.
>
>As a hunter and outdoorsman, I
>want to ensure my children
>have the same opportunities, if
>not better, than I did
>for hunting, fishing, and camping.
>
>
>SFW does some great things, no
>doubt, but non-profits MUST err
>on the side of caution
>when it comes to disclosure.
> Lay it all out
>so the public can best
>decide where to put its
>money. The 990 begins
>to do this, but some
>key information is missing (and
>required to be disclosed).
>
>I know some projects take time,
>but an Organization that brings
>in $7.2 million in revenue,
>yet has $5.7 million in
>UNRESTRICTED ASSETS is acting more
>like a Holding company than
>disbursing that money to needed
>areas in Fish & Wildlife.
>
>
>I want to know that the
>money I contribute goes to
>Projects, not earning interest in
>an investment account.
>
>2009 will be an interesting year
>to compare with 2007 and
>2008.
Isn't this pretty much what most of us hope for? Instead of "key persons", names would be better. A road map for what will be or is hoped to be done with the 5.7 million would be nice. Expo draw odds shouldn't be really hard to do. The majority of us don't need accounting down to the penny. SFW may be truly on the up and up, but when you go as far as they do to not be transparent they create the questioning of there organization. Sometimes the quickest route between two points is a straight line. If you take in 200 tags from the public, you MUST account for exactly how much they went for and EXACTLY what the money will be spent for. Landowner tags or donated tags are the SFW's and while it would be nice to know what they do with them, it isn't esential. I know what the DWR's short term and long term plans for wildlife is( do nothing, change rules every year, never wait for data to change course, buy lots of new trucks), it would be nice for SFW to have short term and long term road maps since they fancy themselves as DWR jr. Basically don't make the easy things difficult and there wouldn't be questions about everything. SFW has employees, they should get public relations person because while he may be powerful, Don talks in circles like the politicians he lobbies, sometimes yes and no answers are the best, not slide shows and stories.