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Land Entity White Paper November 30, 1999 <br />b. Working with adjacent conservation landowners on <br />compatible goals antf management approaches <br />C. Working with adjacent agnicultural or ather non- <br />conservation landowners so that habitat management takes into account <br />neighboring land use, and so neighbors know what to expect and have <br />input into decisians. <br />b. Be accountable to the Program signatories fQr using Program funds <br />for Program goals_ This includes: <br />a. Being responsive to changes in Program policy resulting <br />from peer review and adaptive management. <br />b. Accounting for moneys received and spent. <br />c. Paying praperty taxes (or equivalent) on acquired Iand. <br />d. Managing and investing moneys received from Program <br />signataries and from agricultural or recreational leases or fees to fund <br />further acquisition, restaration, maintenance and other habitat <br />management activities. <br />7. If the Program fails, manage the dissolutian of al] or some of the <br />assets, as directed by the Land Entity or commrttee charter, as appropriate, or hy <br />the Program signatories. <br />Two other potential Pragram functions have been identified in some discussions <br />that may or may not involve participation by the Land Entity or other entities <br />implementing the land component of the Program: (i) serving as the banking and <br />financial management entity of the Program, taking on the functions naw served by the <br />Nebraska Communities Foundation for the Cooperative Agreement'; and (2) identifying <br />and seeking grants and matching funds and other oppartunities to raise money for land <br />protectian purpases which would benefit the Program. <br />' As has been found during the Cooperative Agreement, it is extremely usefuf to have arrangements with an <br />entity that can write checks and appiy funds to specific subtasks rather than four governments entering into <br />separate contracts with eaclt contractor or vendor. Many, but not a11, Program contracts will be refatad to <br />the land component of the Program. in serving this function, an entity would need to conform to the <br />separate accounting requirements of the four govemments to provide confirmation Ihat funds were disbursed <br />far the purposes they were appropriated.