Minnesota Session Laws - 1990, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1990 

                        CHAPTER 376-H.F.No. 2212 
           An act relating to education; revising, updating, and 
          making substantive changes in the laws on the county 
          extension service; amending Minnesota Statutes 1988, 
          sections 38.33; 38.34; 38.35; 38.36; 38.37; and 38.38; 
          proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
          chapter 38. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 38.33, is 
amended to read: 
    38.33 [PURPOSE COORDINATION TO MAINTAIN COUNTY EXTENSION 
WORK.] 
    The purpose of Sections 38.33 to 38.38 is to coordinate the 
work of the federal, state, and county government, the state, 
the several counties of the state, and the division of 
agricultural Minnesota extension service of the University of 
Minnesota in the maintenance of to maintain county extension 
work in agriculture and home economics.  
    Sec. 2.  [38.331] [DEFINITIONS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [APPLICATION.] In sections 38.33 to 38.38, 
the definitions in this section apply.  
    Subd. 2.  [COUNTY EXTENSION WORK.] "County extension work" 
means educational programs and services provided by extension 
agents in the areas of agriculture, economic and human 
development, community leadership, and environment and natural 
resources. 
    Subd. 3.  [DIRECTOR OF EXTENSION.] "Director of extension" 
means the dean and director of the Minnesota extension service 
of the University of Minnesota. 
    Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 38.34, is amended 
to read: 
    38.34 [COUNTY BOARD, EXPENSES MAY PAY FOR EXTENSION WORK.] 
    The A board of county commissioners of the several counties 
of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to may incur 
expenses and to expend spend money for county extension work in 
agriculture and home economics, as provided in sections 38.33 to 
38.38.  
    Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 38.35, is amended 
to read: 
    38.35 [STATE APPROPRIATIONS, HOW EXPENDED SPENT.] 
    All moneys Money appropriated by the state for the purpose 
of aiding in the maintenance to maintain and pay expenses of 
county extension work in agriculture and home economics 
shall must be expended spent under the direction of the 
dean director of the Institute of Agriculture of the University 
of Minnesota, or the dean's delegated representative extension, 
who, acting with the county extension committee, is hereby 
empowered to shall carry out the provisions of sections 38.33 to 
38.38. 
    Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 38.36, is amended 
to read: 
    38.36 [COUNTY EXTENSION COMMITTEE.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [COMMITTEE COMPOSITION.] There shall be 
provided in each A county must have an extension committee, 
consisting of.  The committee must have nine members, of whom.  
Two shall be members of the board of must be county 
commissioners, including the chair and one other member 
of appointed by the county board selected by the board,.  The 
county auditor, and or the auditor's designee must be a member.  
If the county has no office of auditor, the county board shall 
appoint a member from the county administration.  Six additional 
members to be selected and must be appointed at large by the 
county board as provided in this section.  In 1970 and each year 
thereafter, The county board of county commissioners at their 
its annual meeting shall select and appoint on an at large basis 
for a term of three years that the number of the county 
extension committee as is of members required to fill the 
memberships on that committee expiring at that time.  
    Subd. 2.  [BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS.] In cooperation with the 
dean director of the Institute of Agriculture of the University 
of Minnesota extension, or the dean's delegated 
representative director's designee, the county extension 
committee, each year, on or before the second Monday of July in 
accordance with county budgetary deadlines, shall prepare a 
budget showing the total funds available and needed, and shall 
recommend to the county board of county commissioners the amount 
of county funds necessary for the maintenance to maintain, 
support, and pay the expenses of the county extension work in 
agriculture and home economics during the following year.  A 
copy of such the budget shall must be presented by the county 
auditor to the county board of county commissioners.  
    Subd. 3.  [COUNTY APPROPRIATIONS, HOW SPENT.] It shall be 
the duty of The county board of county commissioners at its 
regular meeting in July or January, as the case may be, to shall 
consider the recommended county share of money necessary for the 
maintenance to maintain, support, and pay the expenses of county 
extension work in agriculture and home economics during the 
following year.  For these purposes, the county board of county 
commissioners may appropriate money annually from the its 
general revenue fund and may include the same amount of the 
county's share in the annual levy of county taxes or may make a 
special levy for county extension purposes or both.  The amount 
of money so set aside and appropriated by the county board of 
county commissioners for any county for these purposes shall 
constitute a fund to be known as is the county extension fund, 
which shall.  Money from the fund may be paid out by orders of 
the dean director of the Institute of Agriculture of the 
University of Minnesota extension, or the dean's delegated 
representative, for salaries of the agents employed, their 
employees director's designee, to pay a part of the compensation 
of the agents employed, to pay directly the compensation of 
county support employees, and to pay other expenses incident 
to the work of such agents in improving agriculture and home 
economics and improving and bettering the marketing of farm 
products within the appropriation available county extension 
work.  No An order for the application of these funds for the 
purposes named shall to pay money from the fund must not be 
issued until the expenditure shall have has been audited and 
signed by the county auditor or other appropriate county 
official.  In the event there is an unexpended A balance of in 
the county extension fund at the end of any a year, this balance 
shall must be carried over or reappropriated.  
    Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 38.37, is amended 
to read: 
    38.37 [COUNTY EXTENSION COMMITTEE; PROGRAM, COUNTY AGENTS.] 
    The county extension committee shall, annually, formulate 
plan a program of county extension work in agriculture and home 
economics in cooperation with the agricultural Minnesota 
extension division service of the University of Minnesota and 
the United States Department of Agriculture.  For the purpose of 
putting this To run the program into operation it shall be the 
duty of, the county extension committee, acting with the dean 
director of the Institute of Agriculture of the University of 
Minnesota extension, or the dean's delegated representative, and 
in accordance with county and university personnel 
administration procedures to employ a director's designee, shall 
recommend for employment suitable and qualified person or 
persons for such work to be known as county extension agents.  
The extension agents must be employed according to university 
personnel procedures and must be university employees.  The 
extension agents shall provide educational programs and services 
to enhance the quality and productivity of county extension work.
    Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 38.38, is amended 
to read: 
    38.38 [COUNTY EXTENSION COMMITTEE; DUTIES DUTY, OFFICERS, 
PAY.] 
    The duties of the members of The county extension 
committee, in addition to those hereinbefore specified, shall be 
to encourage the cooperation of all individuals and 
organizations to cooperate to make profitable use of extension 
activities.  It shall elect its own chair and vice-chair, who 
shall serve for one year.  The county extension agent shall give 
aid and advice to all residents of the county when called upon, 
when the object is to improve the science, art and business of 
agriculture and home economics and subjects related thereto.  
The county auditor shall act as, the auditor's designee, or the 
appointee from the county administration is the secretary 
of such the county extension committee, and.  The secretary 
shall keep a record of all its proceedings, and shall forward 
copies of all resolutions of the county board appropriating 
funds by the county commissioners to the dean director of the 
Institute of Agriculture of the University of 
Minnesota extension.  The members of the county extension 
committee other than members of the board of county 
commissioners shall be reimbursed for expenses or may receive a 
per diem allowance in accordance with section 375.47.  County 
commissioners who are members of the committee may receive a per 
diem pursuant to under section 375.055, subdivision 1, and may 
be reimbursed for their necessary expenses, including mileage in 
accordance with under section 471.665.  Other committee members 
may be reimbursed for expenses or may receive a per diem 
allowance under section 375.47.  
    Sec. 8.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Sections 1 to 7 are effective July 1, 1990. 
    Presented to the governor March 28, 1990 
    Signed by the governor March 29, 1990, 10:32 p.m.