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2. To furnish to each Forester or Forest Ranger so employed a badge of office, <br />• stationery and report forms, instructional posters for use in the County, leaflets for distributing to <br />landowners and others; to purchase necessary equipment, communication systems, and other <br />Forestry improvements deemed necessary insofar as the joint funds will permit. <br />• <br />3. To pay the Forester or Forest Ranger for all official services rendered, at a fair <br />rate of pay. Rates of pay are to be established by the Department in accord with existing State <br />salary schedules. <br />4. To direct supervise, instruct, and inspect, through its agents, the work and conduct <br />of the Forester or Forest Ranger, to discipline and, when necessary, discharge such Forester or <br />Forest Ranger. <br />5. To submit to the Board of Commissioners monthly (or at other mutually <br />satisfactory intervals) an itemized statement of all monies to be paid by the County and those <br />paid by the Department for proper conduct of the work within said County. <br />6. To make available annually from State, Federal, and other funds allotted to it, the <br />sum of NINETY FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR <br />DOLLARS ($94,424) as its share of an annual budget of $157,373 for carrying the work in said <br />County. <br />Part II. THE BOARD AGREES: <br />1. To pay to the Department 40% of the total cost of the Forester or Forest Ranger <br />salaries and expenses and of other proper expenditures made in connection with the over-all <br />Forestry program in said County, upon receipt and consequent approval of the periodic <br />statements submitted by the Department. <br />2. To appropriate annually the sum of SIXTY TWO THOUSAND NINE <br />HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE DOLLARS ($62,949) which sum shall be available for <br />expenditure under the terms of this Agreement, and shall represent the County's share of the <br />annual budget. <br />Part III. IT IS EXPRESSLY AGREED AND UNDERSTOOD BY BOTH PARTIES: <br />1. That this Agreement becomes effective July 1, 2007. <br />2. That the annual appropriations as set forth above maybe revised by mutual <br />agreement between the Department and the Board, based on the amount of annual appropriation <br />desirable for the proper conduct of the Forestry work, such revision to become effective at the <br />beginning of a given Fiscal Year. Any unused balance of County funds remaining at the end of a <br />Fiscal Year shall revert to said County unless otherwise mutually agreed upon by both parties. <br /> <br />