Ms. Noonan explained that although the county parks had had no master plan for at least 25 years, one was currently in draft form that would give county officials guidance about their best use.
In it, she sought support for "possible" legislation "that would give county clerks the option to exempt themselves" from issuing marriage licenses.
Washburn has told lawmakers that the repeal would give county clerks more time to handle voter registration without having to also worry about running polling sites.
They gave counties incentives to keep low-level offenders in their communities, where they could be close to treatment services and support systems.
LEGISLATION FAILED Would have eliminated the state's 4percenttaxax on gasoline and given counties the option of doing away with their 3 to 4percenttaxax on gasoline.
For now, the only state that conducts background checks for private sales is Florida, where state law gives counties the discretion to require them.
In 1998, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment that gave counties the right to close the loophole, and seven have exercised that option.
A lawyer for Mr. Bush, Michael A. Carvin, argued that while Florida law allowed manual recounts if counties chose to conduct them, nothing in the law favored them, or gave counties extra time to complete them.
State election law gives counties 30 days to finish their canvassing of votes cast.
