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Supervisors Hidahl and Parlin recommending the Board:
1) Find that a public benefit is derived from supporting the National Association of Counties and the Western Interstate Regions Boards of Directors efforts to establish the National Center for Public Lands Counties to give public land counties an opportunity to demonstrate how prosperous public lands counties create a prosperous United States;
2) Approve a contribution of $8,708.50 to the California State Association of Counties for the National Association of Counties and the Western Interstate Regions Boards of Directors efforts to establish the National Center for Public Lands Counties and authorize the Auditor-Controller to disburse funding for the same; and
3) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a budget transfer increasing revenue in the American Rescue Plan Act Special Revenue Fund by $435,436 for the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund allocation the County has received and increasing appropriations for the National Center for Public Lands Counties contribution and contingency to balance the fund. (4/5 vote required)
FUNDING: Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The National Association of Counties (NACo) and the Western Interstate Regions (WIR) Boards of Directors has established the National Center for Public Lands Counties (The Center) to give public lands counties an enhanced opportunity to demonstrate how prosperous public lands counties create a prosperous United States. The Center will utilize traditional and new media-such as podcasts and video interviews-to tell these stories and also develop detailed, individual research and written county profiles. Counties know that telling our stories is our most powerful tool in bringing resources and attention to our communities. CSAC is working with NACo to ensure that the Center appropriately emphasizes the importance of recreation economies and does not solely focus on extraction based public...
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