2-615. County extension service agents; qualifications, appointment and compensation; jointly employed agents; approval of county council or district accounts and expenditures.
2-615
2-615. County extension service agents; qualifications, appointment and
compensation; jointly employed agents; approval of county council or district
accounts and expenditures.
(a) Except as otherwise provided for jointly employed agents, the
executive board of the county extension council or the governing body of the
extension district, as the case may be, and the director of
extension, or the director's authorized representative, shall appoint
an extension
agent and determine the amount of the extension agent's compensation. The
extension agent shall be under the general supervision of the executive
board or the governing body of the extension district, as the case may be,
and the director of extension. The
director of extension of Kansas state university of agriculture and
applied science shall determine the qualifications of each
extension agent.
(b) The executive boards of two or more county extension
councils and the director of extension, or the director's authorized
representative,
may enter into an agreement to jointly employ an extension
agent or agents under
like conditions as the executive board of a single county.
Any such agreement may determine the amount of compensation to be
paid for each such agent by
each executive board of the county extension council and the director of
extension, the program and service priorities that
will be applicable to each such agent and the time each such
agent is to spend in
each county. In any case where one or more extension agents are
to be jointly employed pursuant to such an agreement, each such agent may
be employed and supervised by a multicounty extension governing board and
the director of extension, or the director's authorized representative, in
accordance with the agreement entered into by the executive boards of the
county extension councils of the respective counties. Any such
multicounty extension governing board shall be composed of the
chairperson, vice-chairperson, secretary and treasurer of each executive
board entering into the agreement.
(c) All accounts and all expenditures of funds of the county
extension council or the governing body of an extension district, as the case
may be,
from whatever source derived shall be subject to the
approval of the executive board and the director of extension of Kansas
state university of agriculture and applied science.
History: L. 1951, ch. 8, § 8; L. 1972, ch. 3, § 6; L. 1981,
ch. 7, § 4;
L. 1987, ch. 6, § 3;
L. 1991, ch. 2, § 9; July 1.