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Lake County supervisors approve letter backing HR 1383 to reauthorize Secure Rural Schools funding
Summary
The Lake County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to authorize a letter to Congress supporting HR 1383, which would reauthorize Secure Rural Schools funding that the county uses for schools and road infrastructure.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to approve a letter of support for HR 1383, the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025, and authorized the chair to sign.
Brock, a commenter who addressed the board about local impacts, asked the supervisors to send a letter backing reauthorization. “I am here just to ask that you generate a letter of support in favor of reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools Act,” Brock told the board, and then summarized the federal funding model that underlies the payments.
The Secure Rural Schools (SRS) model stems from earlier federal law under the Forest Reserve Act and later adjustments that set aside 25% of timber-sale receipts on national forest land to be distributed to states and then to counties and school districts. Brock described how the county and school share is split: 50% to counties and 50% to schools;…
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