HomeMy WebLinkAboutBudget for WSU ExtensionWSU Jefferson County Extension
2025 budget presentation
October 14, 2024
Amit Sharma – Extension Director
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Extending Knowledge. Changing lives.
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And fully engaged!
Fully Staffed
WSU
Balanced Scorecard
(Kaplan and Nortan, 1996)
Current Gaps and immediate Priorities
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Shared process documentation on Teams
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Logic Model Development and workplan– setting focus and monitoring activities.
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Learning and celebrating together
Self Directedness - Comptence, Autonomy and Relatedness– by deciding what the coordinators want to focus upon and helping them in that pursuit.
Learning meetings (3 hour) – once every month – 2nd mon
Team Meetings – 1.5 hours – once every month – 4 mon
Potluck , games, get togethers
3 month review meetings - take stock of whats going , what help do they need, identify learning and development goals and opportunities.
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GRANTS
$10,000 - Seed Grant Competition by WSU.
$40,000 - New Technologies for Ag Education (NTAE) grant by Extension Foundation.
$161,550 - ‘Expanding Food Systems’ through USDA Rural Development Rural Business Development Grant. NODC led the application process. Awarded.
$20,000 -COHORT ('Coastal Hazards Organizational Resilience Team' ) funding. Awarded.
$150,000 - “Adapting Beach Naturalists Volunteer Training for Online Delivery” through the Community Catalyst Grant.
$86,100 - Urban forestry Grant led by City of Port Townsend. Awarded.
$120,000 - Cradle to Consumption: Addressing Food Waste Along the Food Supply Chain in Western Washington.
$41,075 - Title II , Olympic Peninsula Resource Advisory Committee Grant (pending)
$34,667 - Agri Prospects mini grant , Extension Foundation. Awarded
Grants applied for -
NOW
4H – 1k grant
COHORT
Katie is already applying to a few other
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fully engaged!
Fully Staffed
WSU
Strategically Aligned
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County Strategic Plan
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CAHNRS’s commitment is to build a more "Resilient WA" through partnerships and delivery on the land grant mission
I wish to bring to your notice two things about CAHRNS focus on resilient WA. The four foundational pillars continue to build on the aspects that extension has always focused on.
Secondly, there is a significant overlap to the areas identified within the strategic plan of the County.
And hence, I see the increased potential of getting - resources, help, and guidance, that could support us here in JC
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WSU
Strategic Priorities
Organizational Capability at the regional level.
Extension's Priorities and focus areas
.Partnerships – within programs, with other counties, with other organizations withing and outside the county.
Empowering – the best form of community development is when you make yourself redundant.
Depth over breadth – we cant do everything – certainly not do everything well enough! This goes back to the previous two principles.
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Budget big picture
The Noxious weeds control program is a county operation housed in Extension with the Extension Director providing direct daily supervision while the weed board provides overarching policy
direction. When the BoCC adopted a weed assessment in 2015, the level was set so that it would enable the program to operate for 12-14 years without needing a rate increase. The fund
operates a healthy fund balance. The NOW expenditure is set to match the revenue and 109 gets an 'indirect' for the administrative and other support provided to the program.
Similarly, for WQ projects – the expenditure for MRC and OTGP, are structured in a way to match the Grant revenue.
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2024Budget – (109)
To fund the program, as outlined below, Jefferson County, has instituted an annual assessment, tied to property owners property tax bill.
An assessment for the Jefferson County noxious weed control program of $4.00 per parcel and $0.30 per acre on all property not classified as forest land shall be imposed annually. This
assessment (approximately$147,000 in 2023) funds program overhead and a staff of 1 FTE who is responsible for all aspects of program operation and management. In addition, the coordinator
has been very successful in obtaining additional funding (approximately $45,000 in 2023) through agreements with public agencies like the City of Port Townsend and the Jefferson County
PUD to extend control efforts. We run the program through a full time coordinator and plan to make a seasonal NOW assistant hire in 2024 and 2025.
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2024Budget – (108)
The gap in our Expenditure and Revenue , and hence our ask for extra funds is essentially to rebuild our organizational capacity. We have reduced our ask across heads like – internet,
info services, utilities, supplies by a total of $4800
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2025 Budget – (108), Add Request
The gap in our Expenditure and Revenue , and hence our ask for extra funds is essentially to rebuild our organizational capacity. This starts from being fully staffed-
For 2024 the break up of the ask is as follows
SALARIES- 17,120 Reinstate the Admin lead position at 1 FTE and clerk at .6FTE
BENEFITS - 4,448 Reinstate the Admin lead position at 1 FTE and clerk at .6FTE
ADMIN SUPPORT. 21568
WSU employees are receiving a 2.5% wage increase effective OCT 1 –2023. WSU JC extension will cover these expenses from the existing 108 funds. However, for next year, as the new MOA
is signed, this will mean the need for increased support from the county towards the MOA funding.
MOA - 21320
MOA INCREASE 4,281 MOA Amount increase due to WSU salary increase
MOA INCREASE. 1,962 MOA Amount increase due to WSU salary increase
MOA INCREASE 12,643 MOA Amount increase due to WSU salary increase and Reinstating the coodinator to 1 FTE (from .8FTE due to maternity)
MOA INCREASE 2,434 MOA Amount increase due to WSU salary increase
INFLATION - 6140
RENT 840 Increase in rent from mid year (2024)
JANITORIAL SERVICES 1,400 Janitorial services fee increase
TRAVEL 900 Increase due to the full staff strength including Director.
Travel and supplies 500 Small farms -supplies 1,000 Small farms travel 500 Master Gardener supplies 1,000 Master Gardener travel.
We have reduced our ask across heads like – internet, info services, utilities, supplies by a total of $4800
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Agenda
Overview of Jefferson County Extension
Snapshot of our Programs
Current gaps and immediate priorities
Strategic Priorities
Budget – big picture
109 and 108 – specifics
Questions
WSU
This is the agenda for the presentation – You will notice, that we will NOT focus on the detailed activities and outputs for each of the programs that we have. This is deliberate and
in response to the fact that most people are very familiar with Extension. (In all likelihood even more familiar than what I am at this stage!)
So what we have done is to use this opportunity to provide a broader lay of the land within which the extension operates and how we are thinking about the future.
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We’ve defined our program focus areas into these four pillars that clearly illustrate our work to not only stakeholders but also to ourselves. The pillars are - research and the application
of best practices; policy and advocacy for the farm sector; strengthening the food systems landscape; and farmer education, engagement, and assistance. (click, click, click) But, I'd
like to focus on the farmer education pillar and how our work is accomplishing the many goals of Resilient Washington, specifically farm workforce development.
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Questions
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