BMA gets back in action

The Bidwell Mansion Association and California State Parks reached a tentative agreement to continue partnering in their stewardship of the Bidwell Mansion last Friday (April 27), one day before the BMA would have been forced to turn over nearly $140,000 to another organization.

The BMA will renegotiate its contract with the state and restructure its board to include members of the Bidwell Mansion Community Project. State Parks terminated its original contract with the organization—which has existed under various names for 56 years—after a clerical error led to a lapse in the BMA’s nonprofit status. That status was restored, but the contract was not; State Parks had ordered the BMA to turn over its funds to the Bidwell Bar Association, an Oroville-based nonprofit.

The new agreement was made in mediation talks presided over by Assemblyman Dan Logue.