Spokane County Parks new NOVA Education and Enforcement Grant

Spokane County Parks, Recreation and Golf Dept. has been successfully awarded a NOVA Education and Enforcement Grant through the State of Washington Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO). Project number: 22-2187E, approval date 06/28/2023. Project
Benefit, which is combination of project sponsor contributions and the RCO dollars totals $326,671. Project start date for this grant was 11/01/2023 with an agreement end date of 10/31/2025.

This grant will fund two seasonal employees to be hired by Spokane County Parks each working six-month positions for two years with a job title of Park Education Aide. Grant funding will provide support resources for the Park Aides including vehicles, fuel, uniforms, cell phones, computers, training, and other educational support items such as maps, consumer videos and graphics.

The match sources for this grant comes from both Spokane County Parks and local volunteers including local equestrian and mountain biking groups and is in the form of money donations, volunteer labor, animal or stock use, equipment like horse trailers and park ranger time and vehicle use. In-field hours leveraged through this grant include 1,950 park ranger hours, 250 Evergreen Mountain Bike Community hours and 832 Equestrian Mounted patrol hours.

The 832 equestrian hours will hopefully turn out to be about 104 outings on Spokane County Park NOVA eligible properties over the two-year grant cycle, with peak outings occurring between April and October each year. The NOVA properties list includes Antoine Peak, Liberty Lake, Feryn Ranch, Haynes, Hauser, Slavin, McKenzie, Newman Lake, McLellan off of South Bank, Mica Peak and Saltese.

• Bryant Robinson, Park Ranger, Spokane County Parks
  Phone 509-477-6395
• Cell (text is preferred communication) 509-998-8807
• email: brobinson@spokanecounty.org