Dave....Thanks for revealing another of your areas of expertise...This is a very interesting area to me. I wish I had a copy of the minutes for the commission meeting where the budget was outlined and discussed in detail. I was not there and heard information second hand. Too many questions to take up a page here. But I would be interested to see the bare bones facts. WDFW people seem to think that they are paying for things that have nothing to do with their department. If the costs assessed are based on some kind of percentage of budgets then it would be accurate to say that whatever was in that dept's budget is passed on to WDFW via the percentage.

I don't want to maintain that there is a direct assessment for DSHS lawsuits but I am saying that such things add to the overall expense of state government which by its bloated nature makes spending by all agencies difficult.