The Amador County Board of Supervisors approved allocation of Secure Rural Schools funding, to be finalized at the end of September.
All Title 3 funds will go to go to the Amador County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue team and the office, for emergency services performed on National Forest Service lands.
Supervisors considered the Search & Rescue team for funding, and also a demonstration garden proposed by Amador Fire Safe Council, seeking $8,000. The low-water, fire-safe garden was seen as duplicative of another program funded previously.
The Board heard from Amador County Undersheriff Jim Wegner, and Fire Safe Council’s Kathy Koos-Breazeal. Wegner said a recent three-day search in national forest land, which ended with the safe recovery of a hiker, also cost the Sheriff’s Department $11,000. The Title 3 funds amount to $26,700 in this cycle, and must be allocated by Sept. 30, with public hearings and all notices having been carried out. Supervisors asked about direction of the funding.
Consultant John Hofmann said Supervisors can direct expenditures of the Amador County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC), which distributes $76,000 in Title 2 funds this program cycle. Hofmann said it was not a coincidence that Sept. 30 is the last day for the RAC and also for Supervisors to allocate money. He said Supervisors can say they want to allocate to the weed project, but the RAC must OK it and send it back to Supervisors by a certain date. Then, if they choose, Supervisors can pull the funding and put it elsewhere.
Supervisor Chairman John Plasse said he was not happy with Amador Resource Advisory Committee, because they always seem to be “too busy finding reasons why they cannot do” projects, saying that they discuss environmental tests next to dynamite holes, which if the species had survived, then no project should impact them.
Supervisor Richard Forster said he thought they should keep the funds as local as they can, for fire and police. Supervisor Brian Oneto said: “I don’t know how beneficial the garden project would be.”
Plasse said the three-day search and rescue in the end was an $11,000 impact to our general fund. Plasse said “I would like to reimburse the Sheriff’s Office for that.” He said at the previous meeting, the Board decided against changing its approval of $150,000 for the University of California Cooperative Extension office, and “I don’t support another $8,000 to do the same thing.”
Plasse said “I can’t support demonstration gardens over search and rescue operations.” Oneto agreed. The Board voted 4-1 to put Title 3 funds in its entirety in the Sheriff’s office and Search and Rescue emergency work on national forest property
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The Amador County Board of Supervisors approved allocation of Secure Rural Schools funding, to be finalized at the end of September.
All Title 3 funds will go to go to the Amador County Sheriff’s Office Search & Rescue team and the office, for emergency services performed on National Forest Service lands.
Supervisors considered the Search & Rescue team for funding, and also a demonstration garden proposed by Amador Fire Safe Council, seeking $8,000. The low-water, fire-safe garden was seen as duplicative of another program funded previously.
The Board heard from Amador County Undersheriff Jim Wegner, and Fire Safe Council’s Kathy Koos-Breazeal. Wegner said a recent three-day search in national forest land, which ended with the safe recovery of a hiker, also cost the Sheriff’s Department $11,000. The Title 3 funds amount to $26,700 in this cycle, and must be allocated by Sept. 30, with public hearings and all notices having been carried out. Supervisors asked about direction of the funding.
Consultant John Hofmann said Supervisors can direct expenditures of the Amador County Resource Advisory Committee (RAC), which distributes $76,000 in Title 2 funds this program cycle. Hofmann said it was not a coincidence that Sept. 30 is the last day for the RAC and also for Supervisors to allocate money. He said Supervisors can say they want to allocate to the weed project, but the RAC must OK it and send it back to Supervisors by a certain date. Then, if they choose, Supervisors can pull the funding and put it elsewhere.
Supervisor Chairman John Plasse said he was not happy with Amador Resource Advisory Committee, because they always seem to be “too busy finding reasons why they cannot do” projects, saying that they discuss environmental tests next to dynamite holes, which if the species had survived, then no project should impact them.
Supervisor Richard Forster said he thought they should keep the funds as local as they can, for fire and police. Supervisor Brian Oneto said: “I don’t know how beneficial the garden project would be.”
Plasse said the three-day search and rescue in the end was an $11,000 impact to our general fund. Plasse said “I would like to reimburse the Sheriff’s Office for that.” He said at the previous meeting, the Board decided against changing its approval of $150,000 for the University of California Cooperative Extension office, and “I don’t support another $8,000 to do the same thing.”
Plasse said “I can’t support demonstration gardens over search and rescue operations.” Oneto agreed. The Board voted 4-1 to put Title 3 funds in its entirety in the Sheriff’s office and Search and Rescue emergency work on national forest property
Story by Jim Reece. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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