> It's that time again- the 2002 REAP Assemblies start next week! > > An introduction to REAP (from the DNR website): > REAP (Resource Enhancement and Protection) is a program that Iowa invests > in to enhance and protect the state's natural and cultural resources. > Depending on the individual programs, REAP provides money for projects > through state agency budgets or in the form of grants. REAP is funded by > the state's general fund and receipts from the sale of the natural resource > license plate. > > The program is authorized to receive $20 million per year until 2021, but > it has only realized that level of funding in one year (1991) since its > inception in 1989. The state legislature sets the amount of REAP funding > every year, and in recent years that level has been $9 million from the > general fund. Interest from the REAP account and receipts from the sale of > natural resource license plates add about $1.5 million to this > appropriation. > > Currently, the REAP "formula" (fund allocation) looks like this: > First $350,000 each year goes to Conservation Education. > 1% of the balance goes for DNR administration and is divided into the > following areas: 15% City Parks and Open Space; 28% DNR Open Space; 3% > Roadside Vegetation; 5% Historical Resources; 9% DNR Land Management; 20% > County Conservation; 20% Soil and Water Enhancement. > > Plan to attend your regional REAP Assembly. These are open public meetings > where all REAP programs and associated projects are presented. > Opportunities for regional REAP projects are also identified at these > meetings, and participants may recommend changes to REAP policies, > programs, and funding. The schedule for 2002 Assemblies is listed below. > CITY LOCATION DATE COUNTIES IN REGION Calmar Wilder Building, Room 105 Northeast Iowa Community College Hwy. 150, South of Calmar Feb. 5 Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek Marshalltown Main Building Room 614 Iowa Valley Community College On Hwy. 14, just south of Hwy 30 Feb. 7 Hardin, Marshall, Poweshiek, Tama Cedar Rapids Room 234, Cedar Hall Kirkwood College Kirkwood Blvd. (south end of city) Feb. 12 Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Washington Cedar Falls Rotary Reserve Lodge 5932 North Union Road (northwest of Cedar Falls) Feb. 19 Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Grundy Creston Room 220 (Auditorium) Southwestern Community College Hwy. 25 Feb. 21 Adair, Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Madison, Ringgold, Taylor, Union Maquoketa Community Center 506 S. Eliza Street Feb. 26 Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson Carroll Carroll High School Auditorium 2809 Grant Road Mar. 5 Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, Greene, Guthrie, Sac Griswold Community Center 601 Second Street Mar. 6 Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Montgomery, Page, Shelby, Mills, Pottawattamie Correctionville Community Center 716 - 5th Street Mar. 7 Cherokee, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury Arnolds Park City Hall 156 N. Okoboji Grove Rd. (Hwy 71) Mar. 19 Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Sioux Granger Jester Lodge in Jester County Park Mar. 21 Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Marion, Polk, Story, Warren Bettendorf Bettendorf Public Library 2950 Learning Campus Drive Mar. 26 Muscatine, Scott Mason City Public Library 225 Second Street, SE Apr. 2 Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Kossuth, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth Ottumwa Bennett Regional Training Center Room 100 Indian Hills Community College Apr. 3 Appannoose, Davis, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lucas, Mahaska, Monroe, Van Buren, Wapello, Wayne Fort Dodge Voc Tech Bldg., Rooms 101 & 103 Iowa Central Community College 330 Avenue M Apr. 4 Calhoun, Hamilton, Humboldt, Pocahontas, Webster, Wright Burlington Burlington Memorial Auditorium Room B 200 Front Street Apr. 11 Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa Erin Jordahl Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club 3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280 Des Moines, IA 50310 515-277-8868 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]