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Belknap commissioners restore and increase county support for conservation district, back push to restore extension funding
Summary
After presentations from the Belknap County Conservation District and UNH Cooperative Extension, commissioners voted to raise the county's recommended support for the conservation district to $60,000 and approved a motion to seek additional cooperative-extension funding; the extension-motion text in the transcript was unclear and is quoted verbatim.
Belknap County commissioners on the eveningvoted to increase the county's recommended funding for the Belknap County Conservation District and moved to press the county delegation for restored cooperative-extension support.
The board approved a motion to raise the county recommendation for the conservation district to $60,000 after district volunteers told commissioners their administrative funds had been cut and that they were struggling to apply for grants. Ray Demar of the conservation district said the organization had used restricted grant balances to operate and warned, "we're pretty much dead in the water" without restored county support.
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