2005 North American Pesticide Applicator Certification and Safety Education Workshop

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2005 North American Pesticide Applicator
Certification and Safety Education Workshop

• Non-Traditional Funding for Certification
  Programs
• Gary Fish Maine Board of Pesticides Control
• Jack Peterson Arizona Department of Agriculture

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Budget Woes

• Is this what the cube next to you looks like?
• Layoffs and attrition with no money to fill
  vacant positions

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The Sea of Red

• Has your budget followed the path of the federal
  budget?
• Or maybe even worse?

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Budget Outrage

• Have you thought about meeting with an anonymous
  source to discover the answer to your dilemma
• Did he/she tell you to Follow the money

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Enter The Answer Men

• We have all the answers
• NOT!
• But you have provided us with a few to share

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Hair Brain Schemes

• In Maine well try anything
• Lottery tickets
• License plates
• Tax check-offs
• Container surcharges

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Lottery Ticket

• Introduced to our current legislature
• 52 of funds for BPC
• 45 for UMCE
• 3 for Maine IPM Council
• Estimated to bring in 750,000

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Cash for Trash

• Went to the Veterans Legal Affairs Committee
  instead of Ag Committee
• No real testimony against it, but Lottery
  Commission had reservations because of an
  existing ticket for the Maine Outdoor Heritage
  Fund (MOHF)
• Voted ought not to pass by the committee
• If the MOHF decides to drop their ticket we will
  re-introduce the bill

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License Plates

• Loon license plates for wildlife and parks
  funding (80,000 plates/year) Around 1 million
• Recently approved Maine Ag Tag, must get at least
  2000 orders before they will be issued for MAITC
  program. 10/plate will go to MAITC
• How about a new IPM - PSEP plate?

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Tax Check-off

• Maine has the Chickadee check-off
• Averaged around 80,000 annually, currently only
  around 50,000
• A voluntary tax check-off on the Maine income tax
  return

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Container Surcharge

• Jim Dills original proposal in 2003 was to add a
  20 cent surcharge on each container of home use
  pesticide product purchasedshown by a sticker
  added to each container
• This proposal is coming back, but without the
  sticker and only a 15 cent fee. Fees would be
  assessed directly on the purchaser at the point
  of sale and sent to the State Revenue Service to
  distribute to us
• Estimated to bring in over 1 million in Maine
• Would be apportioned in a similar way as the
  lottery funds

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Purpose

• Generate discussion to help states manage
  decreased funding levels
• Survey on listservs SLAs and CESs
• Responses 31
• 14 SLA
• 1 Canadian
• 1 EPA
• 15 CES

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Fees

• Charging or Raising
• Postage
• Training
• Development fees with materials
• Materials
• License fees certification, business, pilots

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Fees Contd

• Fee for live training
• Per CEU hour fee
• Increase registration fees
• Fees for exams, duplicate licenses, expedited
  license processing

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Effects

• Combining
• Laid off done less
• Internships
• Better coordination with others to cover PSEP
  topics

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Cooperation

• Coordinating with industry pay for facilities,
  snacks, mailings etc.
• Use industry materials for small categories
  anti-fouling paints, sewer root control
• Cooperate with other states
• Cooperate with CES
• Leverage relationships of location some SLAs
  at Universities use their expertise
• Use available funding to pass on growing funds
  pass on money to help with training

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Other

• Legislation to raise fees
• Self Funding Maine, Virginia, PA
• Able to regulate fees through regulation
• Additional EPA grants

Show us the money!
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Other Contd

• Not including the extras workbooks no brochures
  which enhance 3/ 600/yr
• Web site expansion more self help
• Reduced printing
• More things electronically available
• Lesser venues
• Less customer service
• Innovative learning Minnesota

Can technology save us?
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Other Contd

• Using outdated materials
• Less classes being held
• Computer based testing and on-line licensing
• Structural Agencies Termite Action Reporting
  Form TARF
• Dedicated fund penalties, late fees
  non-reverting

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Other Contd

• Expand audience
• Contracting with organizations
• Cost recovery
• Sell legislature more state money more state
  priorities vs. federal

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Other Contd

• Improvise
• Pesticide control bake sales
• Celebrity field equipment wash.  Bring in your
  hi-boy or blast sprayer, and we'll give it a good
  scrub!