Buffalo County Officials Testify Before Summer Study On County Funding And Service

Buffalo County Officials Testify Before Summer Study On County Funding And Service

PIERRE, (KCCR) — The Study Committee on County Funding and Services held its third meeting last week at the State Capitol in Pierre. The Committee heard from county representatives from large, medium and small counties, many with similar issues. Buffalo County Commission chair Dawn Cable says her county is different than most…

Buffalo County collects one-point-six million dollars of which 80-percent goes to schools…

Even with a bridge improvement grant, Buffalo County would need an additional 200-thousand dollars to repair that bridge, that forces locals on a 20 mile round trip detour to get around it. Cable says Buffalo County’s sustainability into the future is limited without help…

Cable says Buffalo County has reached about to neighboring counties about possibly joining to which those counties have resisted. Compounding the issues for Buffalo County is the fact a large part of the county shares space with the Crow Creek Indian Reservation.