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Soil & Water district warns county reduction will shift implementation costs but new state coalition grants offset shortfall
Summary
Tompkins County Soil & Water District managers said a proposed county appropriation cut of about 10% will change how the district funds implementation work but that new multi‑year coalition grants and state aid largely mitigate the immediate fiscal impact.
The Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District told the expanded budget committee on Sept. 15 that a proposed roughly 10 percent reduction in county appropriations will reduce discretionary county funds for operations but that new state coalition capacity funds and existing state aid should help preserve implementation work. District Manager John Negley described the agency’s core work — flood and erosion response, watershed protection, agricultural environmental management (AEM),…
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