Low Level Government Employees

I've been dealing with some low level govt. employees this week. Seems they are going to charge an extra $40.00 per year to use the archery course at Usury Mountain Park here in Mesa. This is in addition to a general pass required to enter the park(or any other Maricopa County Park). That's not a bad thing. What is, is that they denied anyone with a pass stamped "archery" access to the park until they paid the new retroactive fee. It's a general pass so they found out they couldn't legally do that. Lots of mad archers. Now they will charge day use archers for a $6.00 general use day pass and assess a $2.00 per person use fee for the range. I have an e-mail that says the $2.00 is per car not per person. Now I have another e-mail that says the first one is in error and it's $2.00 per person. They cancelled the dec. 1st date to institute these changes until everyone was in agreement as to what was to happen. (maybe because some archers confronted the sherriffs sent to straighten them out and the sherriffs left in frustration). Now it's dec. 7th. I was told my pass is a family pass and it covers anyone under my roof. Then I was told today that it was a general pass for the family use of the parks but anyone other than me needed to pay the $2.00 day use fee. ](*,) I sent another e-mail to the idiot in charge and hope by monday he answers before we go to shoot because I'm sure the cops will be called again. Either these govt. employees all interpret the same things differently or they are so used to lieing that they can't tell the truth. Anyways they are so confused it shouldn't be long before the govt. crumbles and we get to start over again. :>/ I'm trying hard to do the right thing but can't seem to find out what that really is. Pretty pathetic.
Mark
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Springville Shooter
I feel your pain. I'd like to say that there's a light at the end of the tunnel, but as long as the govt gets involved in more of our lives, the more frusterated we will be. That's one thing that I see good here in Utah. Citizens run most of the shooting ranges and hunters safety programs and they do an excellent job.....as volunteers, imagine that!----shooter
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