The Joint Local Government Committee of the South Dakota legislature heard from local governments and businesses about the need for financial help due to the pandemic.
That’s one of the interim committees set up to help decide how to spend almost nine hundred million dollars the state got from the federal government.

Brooking City Manager Paul Briseno says they may get penalized for being fiscally efficient…

Briseno says they cut five million dollars from their budget as the pandemic surged…..

Briseno says cities should be a priority for the federal funds….

Governor Kristi Noem has allocated about two hundred million of the federal dollars for cities and counties.