County announcements, grant announcements, obits…
County officials are encouraged to participate in the NACo High Performance Leadership Academy (HPLA). The curriculum is delivered by successful leaders from a number of different sectors including some of the world’s foremost thought leaders including General Colin Powell and Marshall Goldsmith.
Lifetime Flathead Valley resident, Joe Arlee DeLong, passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2019. He was 89 years old. Joe was born on July 13, 1929, to Milton A. and Ruth A. DeLong in Somers. He attended elementary school in Somers and graduated from Flathead County High School.
The most misunderstood land use planning tool in Montana is the Growth Policy which is authorized by Title 76, Chapter 1, Part 6, MCA. This article goes over the most heard comments regarding Growth Policies.
The Montana Department of Administration distributed Supplemental Federal Forest Reserve funds to the counties totaling $878,966.60 on Monday May 13, 2019. These additional payments represent the sequestration of 6.2% that was initially withheld from the April 2019 payment.
The Montana Department of Administration’s Public Safety Communications Bureau has released this year’s list of grant awards (award letters will be coming soon). The new annual 9-1-1 Grant Program is a state-funded program created by the 2017 Legislature with the purpose of supporting the implementation, operation, and maintenance of 9-1-1 systems, equipment, devices, and data.
Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that USDA is seeking applications for grants to offset high energy costs in rural areas.
The Montana Department of Justice has prepared a spreadsheet with the projected quarterly county attorney salary amounts for each county for the 2021 Biennium. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 7-4-2502, MCA, the funding for the salary and health insurance benefits for the county attorney is a shared responsibility of the state and the county, for services performed by the county attorney for the state.
The inflation factor for FY 2020 is 1.02%. Per 15-10-420, MCA, “a governmental entity that is authorized to impose mills may impose a mill levy sufficient to generate the amount of property taxes actually assessed in the prior year plus one-half of the average rate of inflation for the prior 3 years.”
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced $1.5 billion in discretionary grant funding to 91 projects in 49 states and the District of Columbia. The grants are made through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Grants program and support road, rail, transit, and port infrastructure projects across the country.
In accordance with the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) Act, P.L. 115-141 reauthorized March 23, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service processed payments to states the week of April 12th. Montana’s total payment is $14,176,880.59; however, with the 6.2% sequestration reduction, the total payment amounts to $13,297,913.99.
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