State Must Repay Park Loans

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San Diego Union-Tribune, March 20, 1998

State must repay park loans

Sacramento- A Los Angeles judge has ordered the state to repay $21.5 million in loans that were taken from a fund for off-highway vehicle programs more than 15 years ago.

In the years since, a lack of funds stalled efforts to build an off-highway vehicle park in San Bernardino County and reduced or delayed some state grants for similar local facilities, said Richard I. Fine, the plaintiffs' attorney.

Superior Court Judge David Workman also found in the Wednesday ruling that the state finance department had never entered the loans on its books. He ordered the department to register the loans as a dept and the parks department to enter them as an asset until the $21.5 million is repaid.

The lack of bookkeeping suggests the state had no intention of making repayments, Fine contended.



Last Updated March 22, 1998