{"id":27086,"date":"2025-12-18T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27086"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:23:40","slug":"message-from-the-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27086","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27087 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Amy-Brown-Executive-Director-Head-Shot-835x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Amy-Brown-Executive-Director-Head-Shot-835x1024.jpg 835w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Amy-Brown-Executive-Director-Head-Shot-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Amy-Brown-Executive-Director-Head-Shot-768x942.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Amy-Brown-Executive-Director-Head-Shot-1253x1536.jpg 1253w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Amy-Brown-Executive-Director-Head-Shot.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/>I am incredibly proud of our technical staff. During the 2024\u20132025 fiscal year, staff from the PACD Engineering Assistance Program (also known as TAG), Conservation Planner Program, and Conservation District Umbrella Program delivered outstanding results.<\/p>\r\n<p>Engineering Assistance Program employees completed 26 Inventories and Evaluations, 21 surveys, 87 practice design layouts, 125.5 construction quality assurance reviews, and 79 practice checkouts.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Our certified planners completed 21.5 conservation plans, and all planners are nearing full certification\u2014an impressive accomplishment.\u00a0Congratulations\u00a0to the entire team.<\/p>\r\n<p>In addition, conservation districts participating in the Conservation District Umbrella Program completed 24 conservation plans, 9 inventories and evaluations, 44 surveys, 45 practice design layouts, 55 construction quality assurance reviews, and 79 practice checkouts.<\/p>\r\n<p>Thanks to our program partners, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the PA Department of Environmental Protection, and the PA State Conservation Commission for funding these valuable programs.<\/p>\r\n<p>Here\u2019s to continuing this important conservation work into 2026!<\/p>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Amy Brown<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\r\nPACD Executive Director<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am incredibly proud of our technical staff. During the 2024\u20132025 fiscal year, staff from the PACD Engineering Assistance Program (also known as TAG), Conservation Planner Program, and Conservation District Umbrella Program delivered outstanding results. Engineering Assistance Program employees completed 26 Inventories and Evaluations, 21 surveys, 87 practice design layouts, 125.5 construction quality assurance reviews, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering-program-tag","category-pacd-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}