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3 <br />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 />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 <br />conduce of the Forester or Forest Ranger, to discipline and, when necessary, discharge such <br />Forester or 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 Eighty -four thousand nine hundred sixty -eight dollars ($54,968.00), as its share of <br />an annual budget of $141,613.00 for carrying the work in said 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 Fifty -sire thousand six hundred forty -five <br />dollars ($56,645.00) which sum shall be available for expenditure under the terms of this <br />Agreement, and shall represent the County's share of the annual budget. <br />Part III. IT IS EXPRESSLY AGREED AND UNDERSTOOD BY BOTH PARTIES <br />1. That this Agreement becomes effective July 1, 2000 <br />2. That the annual appropriations as set forth above may be 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 />3. That the Board reimburse the Department as provided in Part II, Item 1, by <br />forwarding a county voucher.drawn in favor of the Department for the amount of the County's <br />share of expenditures as set forth in the Department's periodic statement to the Board. That. such <br />payments be made by the Board within thirty days following receipt of the Department's billing. <br />