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Idaho Geologic Survey seeks permanent funding for database manager, urges preservation of exploration data
Summary
The Idaho Geologic Survey asked the Joint Finance work group for continued general‑fund support to convert a grant‑funded database manager to a permanently funded position and discussed the agency’s role collecting public geologic data and the need for a physical core repository.
Kevin Campbell presented the Idaho Geologic Survey (IGS) budget and explained IGS’s statutory role as the lead state agency for geologic and mineral data. IGS Director Claudio Berti testified about the survey’s request for continued general‑fund support for a database manager position that has been funded on grants in prior years.
Berti said IGS has 12.47 authorized FTP (with several vacancies at the time of the packet sampling) and that personnel costs account for a large share of the budget. He told the committee the database manager position historically has been…
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