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Conservation district board of supervisors meet the first Thursday of each month for regular monthly board meetings. They establish local priorities, set policy, and administer non-regulatory conservation programs during monthly board meetings. The supervisors are not paid a salary, they all volunteer their time and dedication to the protection of our natural resources.
 
The non-regulatory conservation programs which are administered through the Franklin County Conservation District include the Non-Point Source Pollution Control Program and the Water Resource Cost-Share Program, Riparian Area Protection Program, Conservation Buffer Program and several grants (including WRAPS and KAWS funded projects) related to water quality improvement. All programs of the Franklin County Conservation District are available without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age or handicap.
                                                                                                                                                                                     An annual meeting is held each January to report district activities and accomplishments since the last annual meeting and to advertise district programs.  An election is also conducted to fill a three year term for position of supervisors. 
                                                                                                                                                                                   The Kansas Bankers Association Awards program has been a part of the district annual meeting since 1945.  Each fall the key banker, representing the Franklin County Bankers Association, the county extension agent, chairman of the extension council, chairman of the conservation district and NRCS District Conservationist tour farms who have been nominated to receive the recognition.  In addition to the bankers awards the conservation district has added a wildlife conservation award, grassland award and most recently a conservation buffer award was added in 2005. 

The Franklin County Conservation District is a member of the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts, National Association of Conservation Districts, State Association of Kansas Watershed, Kansas Alliance of Wetlands and Streams, Kansas Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education and the Franklin County Farm Bureau Association. 

The Franklin County Conservation District also provides contributions to the Kansas Association of Conservation District Employee Organization, Kansas Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom Education Committee, Marais des Cygnes Watershed Restoration And Protections Strategies Livestock Projects Grant, Marais des Cygnes Drainage District and the Kansas Water Quality Buffer Initiative through the work of our local employees.  

2008 Board of Supervisors

Chairman: Gene Van Horn

Vice Chairman: J. Harry Peckham

Treasurer: Ron Dunbar

Member: Bill Miller

Member: Cecil Rockhold

 

District Staff

District Manager: Keri Harris

Buffer Coordinator: Diane Mailen

Senior Community Service Employment Program Office Assistant: Florence Johnson

 

Ottawa NRCS Staff

District Conservationist: Gary Bruner

Conservation Technician: Kent Scott

Civil Engineering Technician: Alan Gentry

 

Conservation Pledge:
                                                                                                                          I give my pledge as an American to save and faithfully to defend from waste the natural resources of my country- its air, soil, and minerals, its forests, water and wildlife.