22-2727. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO DISTRICTS. (1) A public hearing shall be held by the state soil and water conservation commission on or before June 15 of each year and twenty (20) days’ written notice of such hearing shall be given to each soil conservation district and to all other persons requesting notice of such hearing. At the hearing the state soil and water conservation commission shall consider the needs of each soil conservation district and shall base its request for state funds for the soil conservation districts upon the budgets, budget requests, district programs and work plans, and work load analysis of the various soil conservation districts.
(2) All funds appropriated by the state for the various soil conservation districts shall be appropriated to the Idaho state soil and water conservation commission and shall be allocated by the commission equally to the various soil conservation districts on the basis of the criteria established in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Funds appropriated to the state soil and water conservation commission for distribution to soil conservation districts shall be allocated by the commission equally to the various soil conservation districts in a sum not to exceed eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500) per district. All funds appropriated to the state soil and water conservation commission for distribution to soil conservation districts in excess of eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500) per district shall be allocated by the commission to the various soil conservation districts in a sum not to exceed twice the amount of funds or services allocated to each district by the county commissioners in the previous fiscal year and funds or services allocated to each district by authorized officials or other local units of government or organizations in the previous fiscal year, provided that any such allocation by the commission shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to any one (1) district in a fiscal year.
(4) The state soil and water conservation commission shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
History:
[I.C., sec. 22-2727, as added by 1969, ch. 217, sec. 2, p. 711; am. 1984, ch. 16, sec. 2, p. 19; am. 1990, ch. 358, sec. 2, p. 967; am. 1991, ch. 80, sec. 1, p. 181; am. 2010, ch. 279, sec. 12, p. 739.]
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