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Fish and Game warns sweeping dedicated accounts and proposed admin fee would create multimillion-dollar shortfall
Summary
New Hampshire Fish and Game Director Stephanie Simic told the Senate committee that House budget language would sweep or reassign dedicated-account balances into the Fish and Game Fund and add a 5% administrative fee to certain dedicated accounts. She warned those moves would disrupt federal funding matches, risk a fund deficit of about $2.5
Stephanie Simic, director of New Hampshire Fish and Game, testified to the Senate committee about several House budget provisions that the agency said would materially affect its finances and program operations.
Simic said House language removes a $1.5 million general-fund component that had been included previously to support conservation law enforcement, leaving Fish and Game to rely on the Fish and Game Fund as the default revenue source. The agency projected that, under current assumptions and absent changes, the Fish and Game Fund would show a negative balance of about $2.5 million by the end of the biennium if lapses and other offsets do not occur.
Simic and chief business manager Cathy Labonte also…
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