Wildlife biologists at the Henry’s Lake Fish Hatchery say they’ve harvested considerably more eggs than usual this year — on the order of over 4.5 million eggs. There are still fish in the runs waiting to get in an spawn, but biologists say budget constraints won’t allow them to feed any more little fish than they already have. Now there’s some good news.
The problem with the budgets, as I see it, is that if you don’t use your money before the end of the year, you lose it. It doesn’t accumulate. So on a slow egg year, they have excess money which gets turned back into the government (or spent on something else) and on a good year, you don’t have enough to feed all the fish you could have fed.
In my mind, a simple solution would be to make that particular piece of the budget a “slush fund” of sorts, where moneys not used this year could be used in subsequent years where conditions are better. Maybe you have a better idea. I’d love to hear it.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.