Road trip to Beaver Run Resort
According to Governor Bill Ritter’s own transparency Web site TOP, the state paid $283,129.15 to Beaver Run Resort over the last two fiscal years (FY08-09 and FY09-10). Several state government departments including Education, Governor’s office, Higher Ed, Human Services, Judicial, Corrections, Public Safety, Health Care Policy and Financing, and Local Affairs, spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for official functions, customer workshops, in-state travel, food, equipment rental and more.
COST reminds its readers that we are not here to judge the expenditures, but we would like to know how Colorado taxpayers benefited. What was the intended performance outcome of these expenditures?
Some context certainly would be helpful especially considering the Governor’s latest round of “budget cuts” which includes $145 million for Higher Education and more furlough days for state employees.
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[...] this: “Road trip to Beaver Run Resort.” Apparently Colorado spent nearly $300,000 on things like “official functions” [...]
[...] So let’s get this straight — a state that is required to have a balanced budget borrows from the federal government, which is already over $12 trillion in debt. Colorado’s unemployment rate is rising, but at 7.7 percent it is still lower than the national average of just under 10 percent. Maybe the state just couldn’t cut those road trips to Beaver Run Resort. [...]