WHEREAS, on the eighth day of February 1996, the twenty-seventh day of December 1996 and the eighteenth day of May 1997, due to severe flooding in various parts of the state of Idaho; by virtue of the authority in me, as Governor, by Idaho Code Sections 46-601 and 46-1008, I issued proclamations declaring that states of extreme and disaster emergencies existed for all counties in Idaho; and

    WHEREAS, tremendous financial obligations and expenses have been and will be incurred by various departments and agencies of the state of Idaho in responding to and assisting in efforts to deal with this extreme flooding emergency; and

    WHEREAS, all funds in the Disaster Emergency Account created by Idaho Code Section 46-1005A have or soon will be expended; and

    WHEREAS, funds in the general account are available to transfer to the Disaster Emergency Account under the requirements set forth in Idaho Code Section 46-1005A(2)(b); and

    WHEREAS, it is my judgment, as Governor of the state of Idaho, that any moneys transferred from the Budget Stabilization Fund up to the limits provided below would not be required to support the current year's appropriation of these funds;

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Governor of the State of Idaho, by the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of this state do hereby order as follows:

1. The state controller is directed to transfer moneys in the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Disaster Emergency Account in such amount and at such times as directed by me or my designee, the Administrator of the Division of Financial Management. In no event shall more than one (1) million dollars be transferred from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Disaster Emergency Account during the current fiscal year.
2. In no event may the revenues made available under this executive order exceed, during any fiscal year, one percent (1%) of the annual appropriation of general account moneys for the fiscal year.
     

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord two-thousand and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred twenty-fourth and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred tenth.

PETE T. CENARRUSA
SECRETARY OF STATE