248.709 Duties of board.
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The board's duties shall include but not be limited to:
(1)Administering the agricultural development fund, except as provided in KRS
248.717(2);
(2)Receiving requests and applications for funds and authorizing the distribution of
funds. The board may receive applications from institutions of public postsecondary
education for financial and technical assistance in conducting alternative crop
development research. The board shall assist the applicants in obtaining any
necessary federal permits that may be required to conduct alternative crop research.
A recipient institution shall report the status and progress of the alternative crop
development research to the board, the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture, and
the Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund Oversight Committee. The board shall
promulgate administrative regulations relating to growing and researching
alternative crops at the selected postsecondary institution, and shall adopt any
applicable federal regulations;
(3)Developing guidelines and criteria for eligibility for and disbursement of funds, the
types of direct and indirect economic assistance to be awarded, and procedures for
applying for funds and reviewing applications for assistance;
(4)Ensuring that each county agricultural development council's plans and county
recommendations and applications receive major consideration in decisions on use
of a county's funds;
(a)Completing a comprehensive plan and updating the plan no less than every
ten
(10)years.
(b)The comprehensive plan shall propose short-term and long-term goals,
strategies, and investments in Kentucky agriculture that will assist farmers in
remaining competitive in existing and new enterprises. The comprehensive
plan shall identify a diversified mix of enterprises that are profitable to
farmers and shall determine the investments necessary to support the viability
of those enterprises. The plan shall be reviewed by the General Assembly and
the subcommittee created in KRS 248.723. The subcommittee may issue
comment on the plan. However, the board may act without General Assembly
approval.
(c)Notwithstanding the provisions of 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 546, immediate funding
needs may be addressed and funded before a comprehensive or strategic plan
is completed. Proposals from an applicant may be approved by the board if
they meet the criteria established in KRS 248.713;
(6)Preparing a biennial budget request in accordance with KRS Chapter 48;
(7)Working with other governmental agencies to maximize the financial and economic
impact that the programs implemented by the board will have and to maximize
receipt of federal and other funds to the agriculture community in the
Commonwealth;
(8)Promulgating administrative regulations relating to carrying out the purposes of
KRS 248.701 to 248.727;
(9)Hiring an executive director to carry out the will of the board and who shall report
solely to the Commissioner;
(10)Ensuring the necessary mechanisms are in place for the committees created by KRS
248.715 to function effectively;
(11)Contracting with other persons or entities if necessary to effectuate the board's
purposes and functions;
(12)Enacting bylaws concerning the conduct of the board's business and other
administrative procedures as the board deems necessary;
(13)Developing criteria to evaluate the success of the board's programs and
expenditures to applicants. The criteria shall be simple, easily measured, and easily
understood. Criteria should include number of families farming, increases in farm
income attributable to state programs, the number of diversified operations, and the
number of different types of diversified efforts within a county, including the
efforts that have failed;
(14)Providing reports of each meeting, along with expenditures approved or denied,
within thirty
(30)days of the meeting, to the Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund
Oversight Committee created by KRS 248.723. These reports shall contain detailed
information relating to each expenditure by the board and detailed information on
each application for funding a project or initiative by the board and decision by the
board regarding each proposal, except information that may violate confidentiality.
This information shall be provided by electronic format as prescribed by the