While many members of the Northwest Congressional delegation were lauding restoration of two years of funding for the Secure Rural Schools program for counties with federal forest lands, it won’t be a panacea for Hood River County’s budget issues.  The County currently faces a need to cut one-point-six million dollars to balance its 2018-19 budget.  Administrator Jeff Hecksel says they don’t have any kind of local numbers on the SRS payments at this point, but he doesn’t expect them to fill much of that hole.  The last time Hood River County received an SRS program payment, it was for $125,000.  In 1989-90, the County’s share of federal forest receipts was over $1.9 million.