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The $80 million center is slated for 43 acres of riverfront propertty inWest Sacramento, directly across the Sacramentop River from the confluence of the American Rivert at Discovery Park. But what woulc have been West Sacramento’s first state park is now in limbo, largelgy because the bond moneyh that would have funded its planning is not In addition, the California State Parks which could include money for the has been in flux for months. “It’ss basically all on hold,” said Rob Wood, program manager for the . “It’sw wait and see at this time.
” State Parks may get its budgetr allocationin April, which could includre money for preliminary planning of the But most of the money for the project’s design and environmental work is supposed to come from Although the state has been authorizec to sell the bonds, there’s not much of a market for them righft now. State Parks needs the bond money to put together the site’s general plan, environmental report and business “We were on our way untio this budget mess hit,” Wood said. “Ane now we’re subject to furloughs.
” The city of West Sacramentol is still very interested in developing the saidDave Shpak, park development manager for the “This is such a great It’s a shame it got caught up in the state’s budget Shpak said. West Sacramento donated the land for the In return, the state agreed that State Parks would make strides to develo p the project in a few years, rather than sitting on the land for “That timeline still stands,” Shpak said. “We may be willing to revise it.” The propert is owned by , whicgh will transfer title to the land only after the generakl plan for the center has been completedand adopted.
Much of the land is between the river andthe levee, leaving only about 8 acrese stretching across the top of the levee to the other That should be enough land for the developmeny of permanent structures. One of the theme of the park is the relationships of tribalk culture to landand water. Consequently, the river side of the leve e is an important part ofthe development. That land is high enougnh so that it goes underwater only durinypeak flows. All structures will be above the 200-yeart flood levee. The statwe always planned to pay for just a third of the with outside groups pickinvg up the rest ofthe tab.
But efforts by the state to set up a foundation to collect donationzs also got crunched by a lack ofstates funding. Government agencies are not allowed to collect donations without settingup foundations. But the donationa should be out there. When the in D.C., was looking for contributionss forits , donations poured in from across the Some of those donations came from tribes wealthy with gambling proceeds, but there were also contribution s from impoverished tribes across the as well as non-tribal donors.
There is an expectationh that someof California’s native tribes, many of which have grown wealthy with various gaming and business interests, will contribute to the There are 109 federally recognized tribal entities in the The West Sacramento project will replace the tiny on the groundes of Sutter’s Fort Statre Historic Park. State Parks searchec for a site for five years throughout the The final list of sites were all in theSacrament area, including the eastern edge of Lake Natoma in the city of a stretch of the American Riverr off the Garden Highway in the Americabn River Parkway, and a wildlife reserve west of Elk West Sacramento was not one of the finalists.
Althougn the Garden Highway sitewon initially, it fell apart after two years of negotiation, when State Parkss and the city couldn’t agree on the scope of the At that time, the West Sacramentpo site, most of which is ownedx by West Sacramento Redevelopment, became the main contender.
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