Utah Perchology

[Anglinarcher]

Just brain storming.

I like your thoughts, but have experienced a few things in the past that concern me. 

First, lets look at how Money is "managed" in Utah.  Like most states, we have a general fund that every dime is put into.  It does not matter if we donate to the state to for extra structure in Willard, or for extra computers for the schools.  In the end, the legislators make the budgets and they spread it to their favorite causes.  HINT, most legislators don't fish, don't care about Willard, and it appears have limited intentions for schools as well.

A case in point is Idaho.  Their system is about the same as ours.  When they wanted a lottery, the promise was that it would fund the schools.  Truth is that with their existing funding and their lottery cut they would be building schools on every street corner, paving they playgrounds in gold, hiring only the top professors as teachers.  Fact is stranger than though, the fact is that the legislators got the lottery money, and the tax money, and the schools got the same or reduced budgets that they always got (yep, got shafted).  When was the last time you heard of the rich Idaho Schools?  Ya, me neither.

For this to work, we would need to establish a "Friends of Willard" Non-Profit, or a Not-for Profit.  As an independent company, they could "coordinate" with Chris or his equivalent to plan on structure improvements, but the legislature could not tough the funding.  Then Chris, or his ..... could get the permits, do the biology as necessary, and work on any regulatory issues.  Perhaps, with enough arm twisting from the Non-Profit matching state and federal funds might be available.

Once the plans were established, fund raising goals could be established, funds could be raised.  Chris would then step in and coordinate with the non-profit for labor and the structure that was pledged and collected........

Well, you get the idea.  I am not writing a charter here, not the legal mind, but TU and other conversation groups have been doing this to some point, with great success.

Fisheneer, any experience with this?

TubeDude, what is your thoughts on this?

Obviously this does not preclude limit changes, seasons, etc., etc., but if anything is to change, we need to be "Just brain storming."