Faced with fading Clallam County funding, the Washington State University Extension Service agent pleaded with county commissioners Monday for a funding partnership to help the service sustain its programs.
Those programs include 4-H, Master Gardeners, assistance to small-scale farmers and the Robin Hill Park demonstration farm.
Compared with extension service counties statewide, the agent, Curtis Beus said, “Clallam County is the lowest-funded county in the state.”
The commissioners are expected to call a budget emergency hearing for June to consider new appropriations for the extension service.
The county budgeted $83,164 to the extension service in 2003, a cut of 17 percent over 2002’s allotment, Beus told the commissioners.
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