To: Board of Supervisors
From: Supervisor Michelle Bushnell
Agenda Section: Initiated by Board Member
Vote Requirement: Majority
SUBJECT:
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Consider a 1% Contribution of the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Funds (LATCF) to the newly created National Center for Public Lands Counties (The Center) (Supervisor Michelle Bushnell)
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
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That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Consider a 1% contribution of Humboldt County Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Funds to the Center; and
2. Take appropriate action as needed.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund / General Fund
DISCUSSION:
The National Association of Counties (NACo) and the Western Interstate Regions (WIR) Boards of Directors have established the National Center for Public Lands Counties (The Center). The Center was created as a 501 (c)(3) organization 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. California State Association of Counties (CSAC) is working with NACo to ensure that the Center emphasizes the importance of both recreation economies and extraction based public lands. The Center will report to the NACo and WIR Board of Directors on its financial health and issue an annual report on research and progress at the annual WIR Conference.
The timing of creation of The Center is linked to the once-in-a-generation doubling of the typical annual Payment-In-Lieu-of-Taxes (PILT) funding that is directly due to the extensive advocacy efforts of NACo during American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) negotiations.
To fund thi...
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