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Page 2 of 4 <br />Approved By NCDA Legal – 1/2021 <br />C) 0.13 Forestry Management Clerk for purposes of providing administrative support, <br />serving as the back-up administrative contact for the assigned district, counties <br />within the district, or unit, and serving as the primary contact for forest management <br />administrative business within the assigned district. <br />D) 0.5 Forest Fire Equipment Operator(s) for purposes of establishing fire suppression <br />control lines in assigned work areas and in other areas as needed using equipment, <br />including crawler tractors (fire dozers), with various attachments, such as a fire plow, <br />hurricane blades, etc., and operate and maintain all types of heavy site preparation <br />equipment. <br />E) Temporary position(s) on an as-needed basis. <br /> <br />2. To furnish position(s) so employed a badge of office, stationery and report forms, <br />instructional posters for use in the County, leaflets for distributing to landowners and <br />others; to purchase necessary equipment, communication systems, and other Forestry <br />improvements insofar as the joint funds will permit. <br /> <br />3. To pay the identified position(s) for all official services rendered at a fair rate of pay. Rates <br />of pay are to be established by the Department in accordance with existing State salary <br />administration policy. <br /> <br />4. To direct, supervise, instruct, and inspect, through its agents, the work and conduct of <br />each position, to discipline and, when necessary, discharge such position(s). <br /> <br />5. To submit to the Board monthly, or at other mutually satisfactory intervals, an itemized <br />statement of all monies to be paid by the County and those paid by the Department for <br />the work conducted pursuant to this Agreement within said County. <br /> <br />State Funding <br /> <br />6. To make available annually from State, Federal, and other funds allotted to it, the sum <br />of One Hundred Five Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty Four Dollars ($105,834.00) as <br />its share of an annual budget of One Hundred Seventy Six Thousand Three Hundred <br />Eighty Nine Dollars ($176,389.00) for carrying on the above listed work in said County. <br /> <br /> <br />Part II. THE BOARD AGREES: <br /> <br />7. To pay the Department 40 % of the total cost of the salary of position(s) specified in Part <br />I.1 above and expenses and other proper expenditures made in connection with the <br />overall forestry program in said County, upon receipt and consequent approval of the <br />periodic statements submitted by the Department. <br /> <br />County Funding <br /> <br />8. To appropriate annually the sum of Seventy Thousand Five Hundred Fifty Five <br />Dollars ($70,555.00), which sum shall be available for expenditure under the terms of <br />this Agreement, and shall represent the County's share of the annual budget for carrying <br />on work listed in this Agreement in said County. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Part III. IT IS EXPRESSLY AGREED AND UNDERSTOOD BY BOTH PARTIES: <br /> <br />9. That this Agreement becomes effective July 1, 2023, and lasts through June 30, 2024. <br /> <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 45D6ADCA-919B-4430-99BB-D5F9C4C47CBA