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State agriculture official seeks $10,000 county budget amendment to cover emerald ash borer response work
Summary
Maryland Department of Agriculture staff told commissioners the state-directed emerald ash borer eradication in Southern Maryland will require county-level billing and expects at least $10,000 in additional revenue/expenditures; the board approved a $10,000 budget amendment tied to program revenue.
Mark Smith, area representative for the Maryland Department of Agriculture's Noxious Weed Program, briefed the commissioners on emergency eradication work for the emerald ash borer and requested a $10,000 budget amendment to accept additional program revenue and pay county contractors.
Smith said the nonnative emerald ash borer, first detected in Michigan and later in Maryland, is being removed by a federal-state emergency response inside a 14,000-acre…
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