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By Ml SEAN KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
ELKTON — What happened to this year’s budget is going to happen again next fall. That’s the message from the Shenandoah National Park.
Bill Wade, superintendent of Shenandoah National Park, delivered that warning here last Thursday night at a meeting with an informal group of officials and citizens from the counties that surround the park.
Moderated by David Jones of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, the meeting was held on the stage of the Elkton Middle School. (The park’s budget shortfall) “is not unique to this fiscal year. I think we will be faced with this for the next few years to come,” Wade said.
He admitted he does not yet have his final budget for this fiscal year from the National Park Service. “We will have about $250,000 less than last year,” he said. “With dedicated funding and fixed costs going up the rest of the money — the discretionary area of the budget — will b^ not much more than one half of last year’s,” he said.
Wade also pointed out that the National Park Service (NPS) is part of the Department of Interior and that budget is being squeezed by Congress every year. “I do not think the fiscal situation is going to get any better any time soon,” he added.
Wade then turned to his other problem: “Do the decisions (on how to cut the park’s budget) continue to be made based on short term local interests or on the other interests of
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