Members of the South Dakota Government Operations and Audit Committee heard several hours of information this week on the financial dealings of the Mid Central Educational Cooperative in Platte, and funding for the GEAR UP program. Several managers of that co-op are facing trial this summer on embezzlement charges.
Committee Co-Chair, Representative Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says they are carefully working through thousands of pages of audit reports…..

Hunhoff says they next want to hear from Education Department officials, who had oversight of the GEAR UP program…..

Hunhoff says there will be new laws dealing with financial dealings….

Hunhoff says the committee will meet again next month.