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In an attempt to flow more money to counties and allow smaller
counties a chance to undertake local promotion and education
efforts, OCA provides 80%
sharecosting (to a maximum of $2500 for consumer projects
and $2500 for producer projects) to county cattlemen’s
associations who complete the appropriate paperwork (for a
county total of $5000).
PROGRAM
DETAILS:
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Regardless of the amount of sharecost projects completed,
the total support per county can not exceed $5000 for both
programs
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There were NO eligibility restrictions
on the program – whatever a county chose to sponsor or put
through the program is accepted (See below for note
regarding Web sites)
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The “BUT” was that cost-recovery endeavours were not
covered. i.e) If a county hosted a barbecue and paid $1000
to host it, but sold tickets and made $450 back in profit,
only the remaining $550 could be put through the program.
That is, only a net loss could be recovered
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NOTE: All counties
were allowed to have Web sites run through OCA for FREE.
If a county chooses to run and maintain its own Web site,
those costs are not eligible.
INITIATIVES TAKEN ON IN THE PAST:
4-H awards,
(please note that
OCA already supports 4-H Ontario)
scholarships, bus trips, County/District annual meetings,
Livestock Medicine programs, VBP-QSH workshops, barbecues/social
events, signage,
County newsletters, OPRAH, Radio promotions/advertisements, herd
health workshops, purchases of serviettes and placemats (through
OCA), educational farm/area tours, sponsorship of beef farm open
houses (costs associated with insurance, toilets, St. John’s
Ambulance etc), Thank-You for Your support advertisements in
local papers, sponsorship of agricultural festivals/fairs,
Producer information and annual meetings, Support of health
fundraisers (cancer, heart and stroke etc), food bank donations,
Support of Habitat for Humanity projects, Pasture Tours, per
diems for manning booths at fairs, etc.
AGAIN, THERE ARE NO INELIGIBLE PROJECTS AS LONG AS THEY ARE
OF AN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION NATURE
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