Press Release from Ed Hatchett,
Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts

Subject: Audit of Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative Released
Release Date: March 16, 2001
Audit online at: http://www.auditor.ky.gov/Public/Audit_Reports/Archive/2000OhioValleyEdCoopaudit.pdf

Commonwealth of Kentucky
Auditor of Public Accounts
144 Capitol Annex
Frankfort, KY 40601

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ontact:
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(Frankfort - March 16, 2001) The Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (OVEC) received a clean auditor's opinion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.

Co-op owns over $ 1 million in fixed assets

OVEC has 13 member school districts and an annual budget of $15.8 million. The CPA firm of Crowe, Chizek & Company, LLP, performed the audit for the State Auditor's office.

OVEC owns land, building, and equipment with a value of approximately $1 million. It is one of only three co-ops owning real estate.

OVEC is one of nine Kentucky school co-ops required to be audited under a bill passed during the 2000 General Assembly. The bill makes the State Auditor responsible for the audits and permits private CPAs to perform the fieldwork.

 

Edward B. Hatchett Jr.
Auditor of Public Accounts
144 Capitol Annex
Frankfort, KY 40601
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www.auditor.ky.gov/