Regents hear report, recommendations on ag.
At its December meeting at South Dakota State University the Board of Regents heard a report, requested by the legislature's Interim Appropriations Committee, on agricultural related issues. In preparing the report, Regents Executive Director Robert T. Tad Perry consulted with numerous people at South Dakota State University and the agricultural community of the South Dakota. The report calls for the state to return to the practice defined in 1988 for the funding of the federal salary shortfall for personnel in the Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station. There are employees in these programs whose base salary comes from the federal government. When raises are provided to state employees, the federal government does not always provide funding for comparable salary increases for these extension service and experiment station employees.