Lowell Landowski
Civil Service Civil Rights Leader

From: Landowski, Lowell
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:14 AM
To: ‘andrewlstern@gmail.com’; ‘bmodkins@seiu1000.org’; bjohnson@seiu1000.org; foxnewslips@foxnews.com; Harder, Marie (CDPH-HISP-PHIB) (Marie.Harder@cdph.ca.gov); ‘info@hjta.org’; jerry@jerrybrown.org; Ken Hamidi (kenhamidi@cppea.org); Kim McElroy (k.mcelroy@comcast.net); laurie.paredes@asm.ca.gov; ‘Pena, Theresa’; Prude, Wendell (WPrude@SEIU1000.org) (WPrude@SEIU1000.org); rdtusmc@msn.com; timneep@unit12.org; Lawhead, Terry (Tlawhead@SEIU1000.org); Mel B (use2mab@hotmail.com); ywalker@seiu1000.org
Subject: FW: California State Parks Branding Manual

Tahoe Fund Organizing Sponsor of 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit

Non-profit’s New Private Funding Model for Basin to be Highlighted at Summit on Monday, August 13
Published on Aug 10, 2012 – 6:10:19 AM
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By: Tahoe Fund
TAHOE CITY, Calif. and INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. ,August 9, 2012 – The need for more public-private partnerships to complete environmental projects at Lake Tahoe is the focus of the 16th annual Lake Tahoe Summit, which will be held this Monday, August 13 at the Edgewood Tahoe resort at Stateline, NV. The free event will be held 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and is open to the public.

“This need is directly addressed by the non-profit Tahoe Fund,” said Amy Berry, CEO of the Tahoe Fund, which for a second year is the Tahoe Summit Organizing Sponsor. “Our goal is to engage people and organizations with a passion for Tahoe and raise the money needed for environmental projects in the Tahoe Basin. The message at the Summit from our elected leaders will motivate people to become involved in the efforts to improve and enhance the recreation and natural resources of this incredible lake.”

Host U.S. Senator Dean Heller, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, U.S. Congressman Tom McClintock, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, California Governor Jerry Brown and other officials and experts are expected to talk about the issues facing Lake Tahoe and the need for public partnerships with private sources like private citizens, businesses and foundations to accomplish environmental and recreational improvements in the Tahoe Basin.

The 2-year-old Tahoe Fund has raised more than $700,000 in private pledges since last year. The Tahoe-based organization is holding its second annual Summer Dinner this Sunday at Edgewood Tahoe’s Historic Friday’s Station to honor its Founders Circle donors who have pledged to financially support the Fund and its goal of providing funding for conservation, recreation and stewardship education projects at Lake Tahoe.

Registration at the 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit will begin at 9:00 a.m. at the Edgewood Tahoe resort and presentations will start at 10. Parking will be at the Horizon Casino Resort, 50 Highway 50, Stateline, NV and free shuttles will provide transportation to the nearby Summit venue.

The mission of Tahoe Fund is to restore and enhance the extraordinary natural environment of the Lake Tahoe Basin by building broad support and funding for projects and programs that increase the enjoyment of the region for current and future generations. The Fund focuses grants on the core areas of conservation, recreation and education/stewardship. http://www.tahoefund.org

From: Landowski, Lowell
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:05 AM
To: laurie.paredes@asm.ca.gov; ‘Pena, Theresa’
Subject: FW: California State Parks Branding Manual

More of the same stuff from Jerry Brown, when will they learn to stop shaking the payola money tree?

From: Landowski, Lowell
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 10:44 AM
To: ‘info@hjta.org’; Don Amador (damador@cwo.com); ‘andrewlstern@gmail.com’; foxnewslips@foxnews.com; jerry@jerrybrown.org; Ken Hamidi (kenhamidi@cppea.org)
Subject: RE: California State Parks Branding Manual

Today the governor is at the Tahoe Summit, to discuss more money tree shaking of projects and programs to bypass the normal budget process and to purposely avoid the use of modestly paid civil service workers, and instead launder the funds though pro-bono contracts with non-profits with little or no government cost control oversight, so they can charge through the noses, like $300 an hour, for some insider cronies who are grossly overpaid for their work. Such a deal and what great timing, and isn’t it ironic, don’t you think members of the ripped off public and taxpayers. Time to toss out the insider pigs at the trough foundations, and crony state managers who do not deserve their jobs.

Lowell Landowski

Civil Service Civil Rights Leader

From: Landowski, Lowell
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 8:39 AM
To: ‘info@hjta.org’; Don Amador (damador@cwo.com); ‘andrewlstern@gmail.com’; foxnewslips@foxnews.com; jerry@jerrybrown.org; Ken Hamidi (kenhamidi@cppea.org)
Subject: FW: California State Parks Branding Manual

A big part equation of how they ripped the taxpayers off at Parks

From: Landowski, Lowell
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 8:17 AM
To: Robertson, Aaron; Mitchell, Sedrick V.; laurie.paredes@asm.ca.gov; ‘Pena, Theresa’
Cc: Harder, Marie (CDPH-HISP-PHIB) (Marie.Harder@cdph.ca.gov)
Subject: FW: California State Parks Branding Manual

This doing work for free using donated public funds to keep parks open is a huge area of potential wasteful spending and a clear circumvention of Civil Service Laws. Just about any project officer in OGALs could have done the same work for the department at a fraction of the cost to the public. So how much did the Foundation pay its consultants and worker for the various park privatizations project they worked on for us pro-bono? What a scam a laundering of funds and responsibilities. Please forward my concerns to AG and the various auditors. The foundation’s honey pots and spending patterns, and conjoined relations to Parks and other higher ups over Parks needs to be fully and truly investigated

Lowell Landowski

Civil Service Civil Rights Leader

From: Robertson, Aaron
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:44 PM
To: Landowski, Lowell
Subject: California State Parks Branding Manual

Lowell,

As you requested, I looked into the cost of the California State Parks Branding Manual, dated January 2007. The Manual was developed as part of a three-pronged Marketing Study the California State Parks Foundation did for the Department under a 10-year, no cost marketing commitment.

The study included:
1) branding and associated advertising investigations (including development of the Manual),
2) marketing asset study and
3) development of a proud partner program.

No money from the State Parks budget was spent on this project. It was done under agreement with the Foundation as a State Park partner.

I hope this answers your question. If you have additional questions I encourage you to ask your Manager or raise the issue to your Deputy Director Sedrick Mitchell.

Thank you,
Aaron

Aaron S. Robertson
Deputy Director, Administrative Services
California Department of Parks and Recreation

Unfortunately the only protected trust fund these days is the Highway Users Trust Fund because it was inserted into the Constitution (article IX) by an initiative.

The politicians use our OHV trust fund as their special piggy bank every year so they can fill in holes in the general fund caused by excessive deficits. The only way to change this behavior is to get rid of these politicians, the Democrats, in the state senate and assembly. Vote and make sure that you are registered before the next election in November.