SOUTH DAKOTA Ramasemmwe G. MARK MICKELSON, CHAIR SENATOR BROCK L. GREENFIELD, CHALK JASON HANCOCK Brandon I CICHOS DEPUTY Dmacroa I DOUG Damask, CODE COUNSEL EGIS I Al I IRE 500 East CAPITOL AVENUE, Pierre, SD 57501 I 605~773- 2.51 I SDLEGISLATURE. Gov LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COUNCIL I August 18, 2017 The Honorable Stace Nelson Senator, District 19 24739 420th Ave. Fulton, South Dakota 57340 Dear Senator Nelson: The Government Operations and Audit Committee has scheduled a meeting for August 29, 2017, in room 362, in the State Capitol Building, to review various issues involving the Mid Central Educational Cooperative, among other things. We request that you be prepared to: 1) Provide to the committee the sources of any information you have regarding the investigation of the GEAR UP program and answer committee questions. I also ask that if you have evidence of any criminal activity, that you provide this evidence to the committee so that the committee may determine what evidence to provide to the Division of Criminal Investigation; and 2) Provide legislative recommendations for amending existing law or new legislation in response to the information the committee has received over the interim period regarding these issues. If you plan to present handouts, documents, or other evidence please provide them to the Department of Legislative Audit two days before the meeting so this information can be forwarded to the members of the committee before the actual meeting date. Sincerely, gfi??f r? l. Senator Deb Peters, Chair Representative Jean Hunhoff, Vice Chair Government Operations and Audit Committee