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.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 22 - AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
Chapter 27 - SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS
Section 22-2714 - PAYMENTS OF FEDERAL AID TO VARIOUS COUNTIES BY STATE CONTROLLER.
Section 22-2715 - SHORT TITLE.
Section 22-2716 - LEGISLATIVE DETERMINATION AND DECLARATION OF POLICY.
Section 22-2717 - DEFINITIONS.
Section 22-2718 - IDAHO STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMISSION.
Section 22-2720 - CONSOLIDATION OF OR DELETION FROM AND ADDITION TO NEW OR EXISTING DISTRICTS.
Section 22-2721 - ELECTION, APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATIONS AND TENURE OF SUPERVISORS.
Section 22-2722 - POWERS OF DISTRICTS AND SUPERVISORS.
Section 22-2723 - COOPERATION BETWEEN DISTRICTS.
Section 22-2724 - STATE AGENCIES TO COOPERATE.
Section 22-2725 - DISCONTINUANCE OF DISTRICTS.
Section 22-2726 - FUNDS OR ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY COUNTY FROM COUNTY GENERAL FUND.
Section 22-2727 - ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO DISTRICTS.
Section 22-2730 - RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RANGELAND DEVELOPMENT FUND CREATED.
Section 22-2731 - ALLOCATION OF FUND.
Section 22-2732 - LOANS FROM FUND — APPLICATION — APPROVAL — REPAYMENT.