2004 NS Contract - Forest Service Contract for Fiscal Year 2004-05

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y -- 2. To furnish to each Forester or Forest Ranger so employed a badge of office, stationery and report forms, instructional posters for use in the County, leaflets for distributing to landowners and others; to purchase necessary equipment, communication systems, and other Forestry improvements deemed necessary insofar as the joint funds will permit. 3. To pay the Forester or Forest Ranger for all official services rendered, at a fair rate of pay. Rates of pay aze to be established by the Department in accord with existing State salary schedules. 4. To direct supervise, instruct, and inspect, through its agents, the work and conduct of the Forester or Forest Ranger, to discipline and, when necessary, dischazge such Forester or Forest Ranger. 5. To submit to the Board of Commissioners monthly (or at other mutually satisfactory intervals) an itemized statement of all monies to be paid by the County and those paid by the Department for proper conduct of the work within said County. 6. To make available annually from State, Federal, and other funds allotted to it, the sum of EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE DOLLARS ($81,321) as its shaze of an annual budget of $135,535 for carrying the work in said County. Part II. THE BOARD AGREES: 1. To pay to the Department 40% of the total cost of the Forester or Forest Ranger salaries and expenses and of other proper expenditures made in connection with the over-all Forestry program in said County, upon receipt and consequent approval of the periodic statements submitted by the Department. 2. To appropriate annually the sum of FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN DOLLARS ($54,214) which sum shall be available for expenditure under the terms of this Agreement, and shall represent the County's share of the annual budget. Part III. IT IS EXPRESSLY AGREED AND UNDERSTOOD BY BOTH PARTIES: 1. That this Agreement becomes effective July 1, 2004. 2. That the annual appropriations as set forth above may be revised by mutual agreement between the Department and the Board, based on the amount of annual appropriation desirable for the proper conduct of the Forestry work, such revision to become effective at the beguuiing of a given Fiscal Yeaz. Any unused balance of County funds remaining at the end of a Fiscal Year shall revert to said County unless otherwise mutually agreed upon by both parties.