PIERRE — A South Dakota legislative summer study committee is looking to find solution to the budget crunches facing numerous South Dakota Counties. District 24 Senator Jim Mehlhaff is a member of the Study Committee on County Funding and Services. He says not every county is a poor position financially…
Mehlhaff also serves on the Unified Judicial System’s Indigent Legal Services Task Force. He says that topic will fit closely with the county funding and services study…
Mehlhaff has been asked to help coordinate between the two…
Mehlhaff says the timing of both groups will make coordinating difficult at the U-J-S Committee will close it’s work in November while the legislative summer study will end in September.