"Fostering Responsible Resource Conservation and
Economic
Development in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough"
About Us
The MISSION of the Mat-Su RC&D Council is to assist in creating
jobs, expanding the local economy, conserve natural resources and
enhance the quality of life for the residents and institutions of
the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
In the Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough the steering
committee that applied to the Secretary of Agriculture for
designation to become an RC&D Area was made up of the Wasilla,
Palmer and Upper Susitna Soil and Water Conservation Districts,
the Cities of Palmer and Wasilla, Mat-Su Borough, Mat-Su
Economic Development Corporation, Willow Chamber of Commerce and
the Mat-Su Convention and Visitors Bureau. As a result, the
Mat-Su RC&D Area authorization was granted by the Secretary of
Agriculture in 1989 as provided for in the 1962 U. S. Food and
Agriculture Act, P.L. 87-703.
The Mat-Su RC&D Council is an independent, not-for-profit,
non-partisan group representing chambers of commerce, borough,
cities, soil and water conservation districts, school district,
utilities, interest groups, and the convention and visitors
bureau, and members-at-large. The Mat-Su RC&D is currently one
of 375 Councils nationwide that is partially supported in
partnership with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS) RC&D Program.
The Mat-Su RC&D Inc was incorporated in 1991 and is a private
nonprofit charitable corporation, exempt from taxation under 26
U.S.C. 501(c)(3). The Council is also the state designated
Alaska Regional Development Organization (ARDOR) for the
Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The governing body of the RC&D
Council is the membership which is made up of representatives
from the participating communities.
See also, Executive Committee & Council Members.
Links
United States Department of
Agriculture
USDA Natural Resource and
Conservation Service
Alaska
Regional Development Organization
Alaska Department of
Community and Economic Development
National
Association of RC&D Councils