California veterans' home was building adventure park with zip line?

Audit blasts California veterans home for spending money on adventure park, tavern
Sacramento Bee
By David Siders
Published: Friday, Oct. 18, 2013

The California Department of Veterans Affairs wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars building an adventure park and running a cafe and tavern at the state’s home for veterans in Yountville, the state auditor said Thursday.

State Auditor Elaine Howle said in a report that the administrator of California’s largest and oldest home for veterans entered into a contract to build and operate a nearly 200-acre adventure park on the grounds, including zip lines and a mountain biking course.

Top managers in Sacramento halted construction when they learned about the project in 2010, at a cost of $228,612, according to the audit.

Howle said the administrator at the Yountville home also contracted out the operation of a cafe and tavern at the home, at a cost of about $424,307 over nearly two years. Howle said the contract did not comply with state contracting requirements and that the cafe and tavern could have been operated by someone else at little or no cost.
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