{"id":798365,"date":"2019-08-08T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369659"},"modified":"2019-08-08T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:30:10","slug":"sen-bennet-co-sponsors-secure-rural-schools-legislation-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/sen-bennet-co-sponsors-secure-rural-schools-legislation-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Bennet co-sponsors Secure Rural Schools legislation extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colo, has co-sponsored legislation that extends the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s&nbsp;Secure&nbsp;Rural&nbsp;Schools and Self-Determination Program through the 2020 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;program supports public schools, public roads, forest health projects, emergency services and other essential county services for more than 775 counties across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rural&nbsp;counties that contain tax-exempt public lands historically have relied on a share of timber receipts from these lands to fund education and county services. As timber harvest revenues have fallen, the program helps to bridge the funding gap for&nbsp;rural&nbsp;counties across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Summit County, the Secure Rural Schools program brought in $816,432 for Summit schools in 2018, the second-highest beneficiary from the program statewide, behind Grand County.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet\u2019s co-sponsorship in the Senate follows Rep. Joe Neguse\u2019s, D-Boulder, introduction of the Secure Rural Schools Extension Act in the House.<\/p>\n<p>The bill text is available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennet.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/b\/4\/b414e9a7-4c96-4765-b319-5932d0631904\/9D32CBB9468E2941B721135F9C63BA79.s430.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sen-bennet-co-sponsors-secure-rural-schools-legislation-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colo, has co-sponsored legislation that extends the U.S. Forest Service\u2019s&nbsp;Secure&nbsp;Rural&nbsp;Schools and Self-Determination Program through the 2020 fiscal year. The&nbsp;program supports public schools, public roads, forest health projects, emergency services and other essential county services for more than 775 counties across the country. Rural&nbsp;counties that contain tax-exempt public lands historically have relied on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 21:53:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}