“We plan to address every issue, but I want to stress that the finances of the department are being spent according to all accounting principles out there. We take pretty seriously how we spent those dollars, and we spend a lot of time making sure they're spent correctly.”
“What I think they're trying to say is that the money should go back into the general license account. We can do that - it isn't a problem. It's always been there and the auditors are aware of it. But even if we put it into the license account, it's a net zero, because we have more revenues, but also more expenditures.”
“It's not that what they've told us has changed, but we have more (Conservation Easements) now than we have had in the past. So as the value of those increases, it's becoming a more visible issue.”
