South Dakota legislators will have to make some budget adjustments before they wrap up the 2017 session in a couple of weeks. Revenue projections for this year’s budget are down about twenty-five million dollars, while next years is down about twenty-eight million.
Joy Smolnisky, Executive Director of the South Dakota Budget & Policy Project, says there are dollars available to lawmakers if they want to use them….
Smolnisky says those maintenance funds could be tapped to plug the budget gap……
Smolnisky says it would only be a band aid until the economy improves….
The session is now into its final nine days over the next two weeks.
