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[Oak]

I was looking over their tax returns from 2007 and was curious about a couple of SFH expenditures, which are listed on the last page of the return. What are the the expenditures for "Tags" and "Consulting Fees"? Those two items, plus their fundraising expenses equals over 53% of their total revenue.

SFH

SFW

 

[JoseCuervo]

I will defer to BigFin for an intelligent analysis of a Tax Return. My hunch is that the "Tags" is the amount of money they return back to the State for a Governor tag that they sell. SFW doesn't get to keep that money in all cases, I believe.

 

[BuzzH]

I'd have to guess the "consulting" fees are peaydays pay day.

 

[Oak]

Jose, I'll bet you're right about the "tags".

You may be right too, Buzz.

 

[schmalts]

On MM a guy called huntin100 said he was on the board of SFW and said in fact DonP was a consultant. So who was that $485K divided up between? Multiple smaller businesses? Maybe some owned by the same person?

 

[Oak]

Here's a good one. Last year the Utah Supreme Court decided in favor of boaters and anglers in affirming their right to access, up to the high water mark, all waterways in Utah, even if they flow through private property.

Landowners have gotten a representative to sponsor legislation this year, HB 187, that would eliminate this access to all but a pre-determined list of waterways. Don Peay has come out in favor of this legislation, as seen in the following email from him. My question: is he really looking out for the interests of hunters and anglers, or landowners? This is a slap in the face to members of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, IMO.

Over the past several years, the Utah Legislature has been VERY good to Fisherman in Utah. Tens of millions of dollars have been invested to rebuild fish hatcheries, legislation has been passed to allow for acquisition of water rights to allow for instream flow in low times to protect fisheries etc. by all accounts, fishing in cold water and warm water fisheries in Utah is exceptional, in many cases, it has never been better.

I might remind the “we are radical fly fisherman only” fisherman, that their 300 member groups pale in comparison to the SFW membership statewide, and 95% of SFW members fish. And, when the fishing groups needed to raise $10,000 to put larger rainbows in Strawberry, SFW came up with $7,500 of the 10 grand.

There have been several amendments proposed by the Sponsor of HB 187. They include eliminating a past rule that would have required NO fishing within 150 feet of a dwelling on a river, you just had to float by. With the current proposal, go ahead and fish on.

The bill is being amended to allow a committee to look at other rivers not found on the access list, and propose adding them in the future.

These are good amendments from my perspective.

HB 187 will specifically allow for public access – even through private property if fisherman are in the rivers – on these major rivers: Logan, Bear, Blacksmith Fork, Little Bear, Ogden, Weber, Bear, Jordan, Provo, Duschesne, White, Strawberry, Price, Diamond Fork, Lower Sevier, and Sevier River. I believe 5 other smaller streams will be added to the access list.

This will mean, in some total, approximately 95-97% of the FISH in Utah will be accessible to the public.

This will mean that private property rights, where relatively small streams will be closed to the public, as they had been for 100 years. However, once again, by law, all of the major rivers and streams above and all the lakes will be open to the public. And of course, the Green River and Colorado, etc. which can be floated, are open as well.

Based on the feedback from emails, and in discussions with many people, most SFW members support this legislation and so after consulting with the SFW Executive Board, that will be the official SFW position. Mind you, this legislation has changed hourly, that is part of the process, and this bill is pretty good. IN my judgment, now supporting this legislation will do lots of good for many reasons, on many other issues and funding for the DWR and conservation as well. To fight it just to delay, or simple because some people want 100% of what they want, or Nothing is not smart business for now, or in the future.

 

[Oak]

I'll give the guy this...he does have some political might in that state. Here's a resolution passed unanimously by the Utah legislature yesterday:

http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/hbillint/hcr009.pdf

 

[schmalts]

As far as "Consulting" goes, do a search on just that and add some names to it in a google search and find a couple businesses that "consult" Peays consulting company is one of them.