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COMPTROLLER GENERAL MEETS WITH TASK FORCE TO DISCUSS SPENDING OVERSIGHT
South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom held the first meeting of the State Stimulus Oversight, Accountability and Coordination Task Force Thursday morning.
The new group, comprised of 18 state agencies, met to discuss requirements for overseeing South Carolina’s $8 billion in federal stimulus funds.
The group’s purpose is to “cut down on waste, mismanagement and fraud in the spending of the federal stimulus money,” said Eckstrom’s spokesman R.J. Shealy.
Part of the panel’s oversight includes a federally-mandated website, stimulus.sc.gov, to provide easy public access to stimulus accounting information.
But figuring out the rest of what is required by Eckstrom’s office under the hastily-written, 1,100-page “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” is extremely difficult.
“There is still a great deal of uncertainty. There is a higher emphasis on accountability at the federal level,” Eckstrom said. “They’re building the plane and flying it at the same time, which is a problem.”
Photo: Free Times
great, it is good to know we have somebody in charge of the recovery money who has never taken a state vehicle across state lines and is not using tax money to put a political consultant on the payroll and never voted on lockset with governor sanford who opposes the recovery.
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