Assemblyman offers plan to keep state parks open
Quick ReadAssemb. Steven Englebright would transfer more than $5 million from other agencies to the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
Photo credit: Daniel Goodrich | At Jones Beach, Leslie Small, left, of Roslyn, and Molly Friend, of New Rochelle, enjoyed the warm weather, Sunday. (March 21, 2010)
State parks on LI threatened under cuts
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The chairman of the Assembly parks committee Sunday outlined a plan to keep open 91 threatened parks and historic sites by taking money from other agencies, raising beach and golf fees more than proposed and borrowing against capital improvement funds.
"The state budget is $133 billion," Assemb. Steven Englebright (D-Setauket) told about 75 members of the Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference...
