[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Gov. Napolitano's (AZ) "tough decision"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Governor defends use of fund to protect military bases

FROM STAFF AND CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES REPORTS
Yuma Sun (AZ)
July 23, 2008

Gov. Janet Napolitano is defending her decision to raid a special fund 
designed to save military bases even as she pushes to do more to keep 
them in Arizona.

The Napolitano-backed budget purposely skips the requirement that the 
state put $4.8 million a year into the Military Installation Fund. That 
account is designed to give the state Department of Commerce money to 
buy up land - or at least the development rights - around military bases.

And the budget also took another $3 million in that account, left over 
from prior years, to spend on other priorities.

That move came as the Department of Commerce was preparing to release a 
report on how military bases affect the state's economy. state. The new 
study, finally released Monday, warns that the $9.1 billion annual 
impact could be endangered if the Base Realignment and Closure 
Commission decides that encroachment from development puts the mission 
of the bases in jeopardy.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yumasun.com/news/governor_43153___article.html/military_protect.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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