she is with the california parks foundation. which led an effort for years to keep our parks open. >> we had kids holding bake sales for their parks. there is a sense the state let them down. >> we will do everything we can to right the ship. >> reporter: he is with the california natural resources agency which over sees the parks department. >> we are shocked shocked and disappointed. >> reporter: an audit discovered two unreported state park funds. one with $20 million. a second fund dedicated to off road vehicle parks, $33 million. the money was unreported for 12 years. long before governor jerry brown took office but he could face consequences. opponents have already latched on. >> they can't even find it while they cut the parks, voters are going to be in no mood to send money. >>> the money was found in special founds and governor jerry brown ordered an audit of all the special funds in california, there are more than $500. how this happened? attorney general is investigating. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> law enf

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>> the california state parks foundation, which is a bay area-based non-profit is coordinating this. the five parks are the state recreation area and the state beach and gray whale cove and providence mountain recreation area in the desert and the california mining and mineral museum. so bottom line, this looks pretty good compared to a year ago. the trouble is all of these deals nearly all of them, are only one year. most of the donations were to keep them open for one more year. we could be back in the situation unless governor brown and the legislature find a much more supportable funding source. >> if the governor came out at the beginning and said i want to privatize or decentralize the parks, it may not have been all that palatable to people. instead of letting this close, was this a back door way of doing that? >> the whole thing was a political train wreck. what brown was trying to do was find a program the middle class loved. under schwarzenegger, we kept hearing the state is broke. the middle class was not feeling the pain. they were not believing there was a problem. if you

. >> i think it is telling the state park foundation, which is the entity that has worked most closely with state government to try to make sure these parks don't close, they are at the forefront of the audit. they are outraged to try to line up donors and local municipalities to come up and help out with this when in fact there was money in the till in some way, shape or form, in parks special funds. you had a group that helped fund some south bay parks which said they sort of came to us under false pretenses. they cried wolf and we responded. that is the prevailing feeling. the city of whittier is saying give us our money back. you will hear more of this over the next month for sure. >> belva: and maybe it won't be as confusing as today. >> we are only a week into this. it will take time to untie and unwind and unpack these books more. >> who will oversee the investigation and the audit? >> the finance department is supposedly on it now and hopefully get some hard and fast state audit numbers later in this year. >> is that actually going to make people feel good? that the state finan

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. >> reporter: tracy torrez is with the california state parks foundation which runs the save our parks> there's a real sense that there's some trust that's been lost. >> we're going to do everything we can to make sure we right this ship. >> we're just as shocked and disappointed with this situation. >> reporter: the situation is that an internal audit found two funds. one a recreational fund with $20 million. another for off road parks for $33 million. the money had gone unreported for 24 years long before governor brown took office but he could face political consequences. opponents of his tax plan already have latched on to this scandal. >> the problem is right now voters can't trust that the government is going to be good stewarts of the money we send them. >>> the legislature will decide how this money will be spent. most expect including the governor's office that it will be used to keep parks open. as for how this happened or who is responsible, the attorney general's office is investigating. in sacramento, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now on the fall out

. >> reporter: tracy torrez is with the california state parks foundation which runs the save our parksere's a real sense that there's some trust that's been lost. >> we're going to do everything we can to make sure we right this ship. >> we're just as shocked and disappointed with this situation. >> reporter: the situation is that an internal audit found two funds. one a recreational fund with $20 million. another for off road parks for $33 million. the money had gone unreported for 24 years long before governor brown took office but he could face political consequences. opponents of his tax plan already have latched on to this scandal. >> the problem is right now voters can't trust that the government is going to be good stewarts of the money we send them. >>> the legislature will decide how this money will be spent. most expect including the governor's office that it will be used to keep parks open. as for how this happened or who is responsible, the attorney general's office is investigating. in sacramento, ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details now on the fall out fro

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here with an update jury the director of communications for the california state parks and foundation. i was surprised to think of as driving somewhere somewhere when i heard this and everybody thought it can't be serious digit are rethinking what happened? >>> is the series of threats over the years climb back to the governors schwarzenegger when he proposed the close of 200. but this time round because of the economic situation and the budget situation in the state was very serious and i took it serious the per days was to try to keep the state parks open because the coast park is a dangerous thing in the tracks fanned alyssum elective knee and it costs more to open because you kept going and fix things first shut down and then go fix things that happen in the reopened at tel . >>> if it stays open one what are the biggest expenses? >>> personnel in the and basically but you mentioned that i like the fact used to turn group term reprieve because we did dodge a bullet to couple of weeks ago the governor signed a budget that little bit of money back in the state parks this a little bi

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