Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1970's

pire with five Sections, 32 fu ll-time p loyees, 60 parr me ltemporary /inte rns , and 38 ajor "m issions" - the largest group f responsibilities in the Department's rganization manual. It 's Tryner's di vision which prepares Environmental Impact Statements n all the Department's planned land cquisirions . In line with its other uties , this division has a potential eio power over any planned OHV ark land buy, When the Parks & R ecr ea tion ~mmission held its hearing to classify ope Ra nch , it was Tryner who made hh major Parks & Rec staff resentation, In his talk was little ention of recreational needs: it dwelt ' ostly with "unique" features to be reserved, and things to be interpreted o'Ihe poor ignorant city-dwellers . Bu t h~t's his bag, and he's been given arte blanche to practice it. It is because the responsibility for HV -r elated a ct ivit ies has b ee n uried in these four divisions, plus orter's Grants & Local Assistance ffice, with no c1earc ut assignment of pecific people to do the jo b, that unds have been "allocated" in the anner found by the audit. ccounting must charge everybody'S ime to something - anything will do, long as the account's got money in t.'If nobody is specifically assigned to HVs, then someone in management r in bookkeeping has to make a WAG (you r classic Scientific Wild ss Guess) as to a department-wid e rcentage of time spent on OHVs, hen apply that percentage to lots of im ecards . Z n a ccounti ng su p e rvisor t old A aUditor Steve Schutte that fear of , layoffs in 1973 ca used everyone to start stre tc h in g re ality with fu n d reim bursements. The supervisor, Bob ca tes , told Schutte , "W e a re generally sup posed to maximize reimbursem ents t o th e Gen eral Fun d whenev er possib le ." There's a lot between the lines t here, tha t di d n' t make it into the audit . l Pa rt of Schutt e's interview with Russ Porter is even more illu m in ating: Schutte: Why wer e em ployees chargJ ng time based on a predetermined p la n ? Porte r: I am guilty. I told people where 'tb cha rge th ei r tim e and I'm going to keep do ing it until th ey'll give me t he budget to su p po rt m y actual workload. (Recognize the bureau crat 's eternal lam ent ! . .. Ed) I'm assigned specia l projects by the Secret a ry of Resources wit h no fund ing to do them . . , I h ave to find th e money somepla ce ... I can't understand what th e Design & Con' struction Division have done with the positions b udgeted for the OHV program . . . So Porter 's not willing to cha nge his tac tics, but he's willing to name a few other culprits - like the Secretary of Resources, his ultimate boss. And who is the Secretary? Sh e is Clai re Ded erich , preservation oriented, a Brown appointee , and former manager of Herbert Rhodes' unsuccesful campaign for office. She, in tum , hired Rhodes. July 30 ·31 , she had a meeting of all her Department Directors (incl u d ing Rhodes) and on August 9 (that first week in August was a busy week for memos) wrote the m asking for fivepage "stra tegy papers" on 40 subjects. None of the 40 ·dealt wit h OR V recrea tion as such . Indeed, as Br uce Kennedy no ted in his memo , there is scant interest in O RVs a t the top, a nd it does look bad: for they've go t our money and are charged by law with spending it in our interest. T he audit , and our subsequent investigations, ha ve show n th at our interest is the last thing on their minds, > . ,. DA Top 2S as of Nov, 19 Dick Mann Chris Carter Kenny Robe rts Carl Cran ke Roge r DeCoster Malcolm Sm ith Jack Penton Mike Hannon Mike Bast Larry Roeseler Dave Aldana Dick Burleson Jay Springsteen Brad Lackey Gary Sco tt Tom Penton Gary Nixon Marty Sm ith J im Fishback Gene Romero John Hateley Mitch Mayes Bill Grossi Lane Leav itt Rick Marquis I O': ~i='- - - - - - R - - -C - - - - - - - - - 1 - - O - - BA L LOT I C y c le News Ballots w ill I I be count e d . I" I RIDER NA ME COUNTRY I I 1. .. --..... .. I I I 2 I 3. I I MAI L TO : RACE OF CHA MPIONS I 12862 Garden Gro ve Blvd ., Suite E I I Names are not final. I W,lson/Mavoard Promot ion Garden Grove, Califo rn ia 92640 I -------------------~-------------------------~ When you drink the beers- Don't shift the gears . .I l.-.. ~ Twin Air Foam Air Filters & Filter Oil FROM YOUR HI-POINT DEALER ..:_____=____=____=..::... ::..=....::...._=..::.. ~~:....=...:.. _ BAY AREA BULTACO .0, £~ . Port ing, Radial Heads,S nail Pip.. C R 125 ·9 .5 Front For k s. F ork A ccum· ulators: Dealer Progr am : Catalog S1.5 0 Hwy , 19N, Rt . 2 Po r t Rlm ey, FL (813)863·212 1 33~6 8 • I Sales - Service ~ Acc essor ie s , '-"" Po rt ing - Weld ing We a lso 5606W. Manchester Blvd . m al I order Westcheste r. CA 90045 213·649·1700 • 75~ lor catalog 13

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