2024 -- S 2958 | |
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LC005827 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024 | |
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J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N | |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $180,000 FOR THE RHODE ISLAND STATE | |
CONSERVATION COMMITTEE AND ITS THREE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS | |
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Introduced By: Senators DiPalma, Zurier, F. Lombardi, Ciccone, Sosnowski, and | |
Date Introduced: April 05, 2024 | |
Referred To: Senate Finance | |
1 | WHEREAS, In 1944, the Rhode Island Legislature established conservation districts in |
2 | order to direct programs to protect local renewable natural resources for the benefit of Rhode |
3 | Island and its people; and |
4 | WHEREAS, The Rhode Island State Conservation Committee was established as an |
5 | agency within the RI Department of Environmental Management, and consists of three |
6 | conservation districts, Eastern, Northern and Southern; and |
7 | WHEREAS, The three conservation districts main program areas are farmland viability, |
8 | farm conservation plans, water quality protection and environmental education and |
9 | landowner/producer outreach. In addition, the districts provide technical assistance and guidance |
10 | in myriad areas including wildfire outreach, prevention and planning; and |
11 | WHEREAS, A portion of the Conservation Committee’s needed funding is derived |
12 | through the support and opportunities for “matching grants” which provide additional funding |
13 | necessary to continue fulfilling and sustaining the conservation of land and natural resources for |
14 | the benefit of all Rhode Islanders; and |
15 | WHEREAS, Funding is essential for the continuation of the Conservation Committee’s |
16 | efforts, including the $180,000 per year that would restore the budget required, but not provided |
17 | since 2006, to continue these essential services; now, therefore be it |
18 | RESOLVED, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not |
19 | otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of one hundred eighty thousand |
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1 | dollars ($180,000) for the Rhode Island State Conservation Committee and its three Conservation |
2 | Districts to be distributed as follows, thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to the Rhode Island State |
3 | Conservation Committee, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the Northern Rhode Island |
4 | Conservation District, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the Southern Rhode Island |
5 | Conservation District, and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the Eastern Rhode Island |
6 | Conservation District; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his orders |
7 | upon the general treasurer for the payment of said sum, upon receipt of properly authenticated |
8 | vouchers. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N | |
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION OF $180,000 FOR THE RHODE ISLAND STATE | |
CONSERVATION COMMITTEE AND ITS THREE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS | |
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1 | This resolution would authorize the appropriation of the sum of $180,000 to the RI State |
2 | Conservation Committee and its three Conservation Districts. |
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