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State Parks Housing for employees waste

State parks housing of employees is a shame amount they pay.. $125.00 month is there payment, those people live in 1/2 million to million dollar homes, free maintenance free air conditioners, triple pane windows, carpets, roofs, plus they get overtime pay, up to 6 weeks year vacations , your hoildays plus all the benifits and some are making base salary $85,000 year. Its a resort living come true. They are caretakers some pack guns ( they should not with limited LE authority ? You have some clerks, park aids, camp hosts, maintenance people, all rangers getting freebee housing.. Charge them the going rate for the area they are caretaking. Just an Example look at Deception Pass Head Ranger lives on private lake 5 million dollar house $125 month. Sun Lakes state park milion dollar homes great views, Ocean Shores, Orcas Island, Rockport S.P , Beacon Rock, on and on There is about 260 rangers and 100 state parks they have 2 to 5 employee houses each park including all the day use parks, you do the math= while at that chore, ask why state park rangers have better cop cars, newer equipment sirens light bars, computers video camera's in cars and trucks and replace there guns each year, spend 4 trips a year and waste time and travel to practice shooting when WSP and WF&W can do twice a year. Dump the park cops. Bring back real Rangers as we once knew & respected as great freindly people.

Submitted by Jim Beam 1 year ago

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  1. The Idea titled Free Housing was merged with this Idea
    9 months ago
  2. The Idea titled State Park Ranger Housing/Utilities was merged with this Idea
    9 months ago

Comments (6)

  1. Big Man

    Park Rangers have full law enforcement authority on state park lands, they are just like troopers on park lands. And most of their housing most of us would consider "dumps"

    1 year ago
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  2. Ranger Darrell

    As a State Parks Employee myself, I think State Park Rangers should either pay full rent for a state residence or at least their electric bill etc. They seem to be fed off of a gold platter and such. They only have to pay anywhere from 75 dollars a month to 170 dollars a month. And they say we provide those for these rangers because they get called out in the middle of the night. Well they also get paid for getting called out too. Am I wrong for thinking this??

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  3. Ranger Darrell

    "Big Man" - I would have to say that most of these "dumps" are because of a lack of responsibility from the person or people living in them. They have the attitude of "Well it's not mine so I don't care" and "If it breaks I will just take my park credit card down and buy a new one". I have helped put in new carpet and hardwood floors in 3 ranger houses so far in my career and with in a years time frame they were damaged to the point where we had to replace it again. State Park employees that live in park housing are NOT held responsible for any damages done to these houses and that is why they turn into "Dumps". And I am not blaming just Park Rangers here because you don't have to be a ranger to live in park housing.

    1 year ago
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  4. Big Man

    It's one of the perks about the job. Park Rangers are among the lowest paid law enforcement officers in the state, so the state helps them by providing the housing. Basically it's less pay = "free" housing.

    1 year ago
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  5. Bev Walsh

    Depends on the parks location, access to available housing, risk to park by not having rangers onsite to maintain property, run of methheads, drug dealers and poachers.

    1 year ago
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  6. mark

    Eliminate free housing for park rangers.

    1 year ago
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