A raft of park projects and a pair of school ventures in Amador County are being affected by the state budget crisis.

However, state stop-work notices list no local road projects to be halted.

Documents from the state Department of Finance recommend to dozens of local agencies around the state that they cease work that relies on Proposition 1B committed state grant money - unless they have the money to complete the projects without bond measure-approved grants.

Amador is on a long list of counties in the state that lacks such reserves. State stop-work notice came in late December, just as the Amador County Recreation Agency had firmed a $1.2 million list of projects for approval by the board of supervisors. The lion's share of that amount, $920,000, is envisioned for a total of five park areas.

ACRA executive director Tracey Towner-Yep wrote Jan. 16 to supervisors that "after months of consideration," an ACRA recommendation list included the following:

- River Pines Park: $150,000 for complete renovation and upgrade

- Pine Grove Town Hall: $250,000 for wheelchair access, bathrooms, kitchen and sewer hook-up

- District Armory Hall: $325,000 for wheelchair access, bathrooms, kitchen, foundation, windows

- Plymouth City Park: $45,000 for wheelchair access

- Pioneer Park, Veterans Hall: $150,000 for re-roofing, plumbing upgrade, bathrooms

However, Sedrick Michael, deputy director of the state Department of Parks and Recreation, wrote county officials Dec. 29 urging them to hold off "unless you can continue the projects(s) with non-state funding sources, such as private, local or federal funds."

Towner-Yep said, "We don't have enough other money to take the hit."

Also on a state recommended stop-work list are two projects for the Amador County Unified School District. One, identified as "underway but needing more money within the next six to 12 months," has state bond money committed, but now suspended, of around $57,000, state documents show. The other state-assisted school project is funded for around $201,000.

School district officials said they weren't sure which projects were on the state stop-work notice list.

In all, Amador is comparatively free of effects from the stop-work orders, which affect more than 1,900 projects statewide.

Charles Field, executive director of Amador County Transportation Agency, said no local transportation projects are on the state stop-work list. "We're fortunate," he said, "we're sort of in between projects."