District Planning
Every year the Board of Supervisors reviews their 3 year strategic plan and annual operations plan and makes changes as they see fit for the next calendar year. Encompassing the District’s Land, People, Water and Plant resources, the document is a picture of where the Supervisors would like to focus their efforts, time and funds for the year and how those priorities tie into the Conservation District’s annual budget–which they also review and adjust annually.
- 2022-2026 Strategic Plan updated in 2024!
- 2024 Operational Plan
- 2023 Annual Report
The Local work Group
The Board of Supervisors convenes the Local Work Group–usually annually–to help determine priorities for natural resources in the county. This Local Work Group aids the Conservation District in updating their Strategic and Operational Plans, helping to identify new and changing priorities in the County. It also assists the Natural Resource Conservation Service Field Office in prioritizing their funding needs for the County. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend these meetings.
We seek input from other governmental organizations, landowners and managers, recreators and anyone else who would like to give some feedback on resource needs. We feel that it’s important to look at the potential projects that come in the door at the Helena Field Office and use landowner needs to adjust the priority resource concerns.
NRCS funding is divvied out at the Area level to the Field Offices. While NRCS has the final say over their funding, the CD believes that it’s important to recognize the actual and immediate resource needs in the county, regardless of what NRCS does with their funding. The Board of Supervisors has decided that the Local Work Group meeting(s) should rotate around the county and we try to have 2 meetings per year, in different locations.
To provide feedback outside of these meeting opportunities, you may fill out the CD Resource Survey.
