California State Park Closure

I read this news with more than a tinge of sadness. As per this blog post, the cut is about $11 mn which will be saved from closing 70 parks, which means nearly $150K/park/year. Surely that seems like a sum that can be raised by local neighbourhoods or donations (which is one of the options being explored anyways). But it is interesting to note that nearly 70 mn people visited these parks of which roughly 19 mn people paid in 2009. Assuming no major shifts in the nos, doesn't this mean that charging everyone (what seems like a reasonable sum of) $1.5 per year per person should remedy that deficit?

I know I make a simplistic argument, but I am sure runners across CA would not mind paying $1.5 as a park fee for the year for ex? After all several runners use parks for practice runs. Although I haven't been to many parks in CA, having run mostly on Steven's Creek Trail for the most part, I think this is something sellable. Another option would be try and get all marathons to raise an optional $1 per participant as park fee. After all, they do make donations to various causes even at the time of registration and they are usually more than $1.

Would love to hear opinions from readers (if any) in CA