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State Spending Budget More Slowly than Last Two Years

South Dakota’s tax revenues may be lagging, but, on the good side, so is state spending:

FY2017 General Fund Expenditure/Encumbrance Report thru Feb 2017
FY2017 General Fund Expenditure/Encumbrance Report thru Feb 2017

As of the end of February, 66.67% of the way through the fiscal year, state government had spent only 63.52% of what we budgeted for the year. In the last two years, our end-of-February spending averaged 65.21% of the budget.