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Charles L. Cotton wrote:The funding for the CHL program at to be at least revenue neutral (no profit or loss to the State) or revenue positive (profit) from the beginning. The fees were set high enough at the beginning that the state made money on the program, but the money doesn't go to DPS. It goes in to the general fund. With the various fee reductions now it's probably much closer to revenue neutral.

Chas.

Ahhhh, yes...The culprit...Our money is going to...drum roll please...

The State of Texas General Fund...

That has more hands in it than a 2 year olds birthday cake!

I see a fix to this, but it will take a great amount of courage and legislative chicanery...To at least get a budget change (adjustment) to allow a decent precentage of the revenue generated by this department to be used to expand and improve the cost effectiveness and staffing to provide the services in a timely manner that is stipulated by the law on the books now...

If I recall correctly, this lottery thing we have in this state to, was supposed to have a majority of its revenue to go directly to the state's education fund...Not into the General fund as it is now...

Same problem, same solution is needed...How we get sold a bill of goods like this every single time is amazing to me...Something to ping the guy we need to send to Austin to fill the shoes of a very good man that was (and still is) a champion of the Second Amendment and this state's CHL law...

email time...

Not that I believe the world totally revolves around some things, but I am curious to know if this particular website, and the content of a section on this forum was used in anyway or discussed at this meeting...

The temperament (of the participants/members) and good natured discussions regarding the "waiting room" area, to me, is very insightful, from a certain perspective...There is some hard data in there that could be spreadsheet'd out to give a general idea about some of the processing times and hurdles some of the folks have had over the last few years...

I've always thought that the information in there really could be used to identify where some deficiencies were in the system, and where there could be some improvements and cost effective measures implemented to improve the services to the CHL community...

But then again we are talking about a government agency here, and sometimes those types of solutions are hard to come by...