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Senate amendment would add $400,000 for species reviews and $2 million to cover Fish and Game pay increases
Summary
Senator David Waters introduced an amendment to Senate Bill 239 to add $400,000 for environmental review of threatened and endangered species and $2 million to cover deficits from previously instituted salary increases for the Fish and Game Department.
Senator David Waters, District 4, introduced an amendment to Senate Bill 239 that would add $400,000 to pay for environmental reviews tied to threatened and endangered species and $2,000,000 to cover deficits created when previously authorized salary increases were not continued in subsequent budgets.
The amendment’s $400,000 item is intended to cover environmental review work performed by the Department of Environmental Services and Fish and Game, Senator Waters said; the $2 million is aimed at addressing a funding shortfall tied to salary increases the Fish and Game Department received as part of a prior budget.
Colonel Jordan, representing the Fish and Game Department, told the committee the agency struggles year to year with maintaining staffing and that the department had expected continuing general…
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