 Growing County Land Services is seeking a public comment on the proposed 2017 AIS plan. Written comments will be accepted until January 20th. The county board has received $450,000 from the state legislature to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species within county lakes. The plan proposed to accomplish this through approaches such as boat landing inspections, decontamination units, treatment of Eurasian water mill foil, as well as education and awareness. We haven't spent all the dollars from previous years and so we have approximately $35,000 in rollover funds that we want to use kind of more of a regional approach to look at other area counties and also within the city headwaters board counties and see can we do more as a group together as and trying to spend a little bit more money together as a group and try to do that versus you know going at it alone on a county by county basis. The county board will review the plan at the regularly scheduled meeting in early 2017. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.