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Spokane Conservation District asks Spokane County to approve parcel fee increase to bolster conservation programs
Summary
Vicky Carter, director of the Spokane Conservation District, told Liberty Lake council the district will ask county commissioners to raise rates from $10 to $15 per parcel, a roughly $0.42 per month impact, to increase matching capacity for grants and expand programs including wildfire assessments and education.
Vicky Carter, director of the Spokane Conservation District, told the Liberty Lake City Council on April 14 that the district plans to ask Spokane County commissioners next year to raise its per-parcel rate from $10 to $15. Carter said the district leverages its roughly $2,000,000 base to secure significantly larger conservation investments and estimated the local change would amount to about $0.42 per parcel per month.
Carter described the district’s portfolio of programs — a long-running tree and seedling sale, technical assistance such as wildfire ‘Firewise’ assessments, a natural-resources apprenticeship (NRAP) that…
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