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Talking About the Budget Process

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Monday, October 24, 2011   

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A series of meetings called "South Dakotans Talking" is designed to help people understand the state's budgeting process. Joy Smolnisky with the South Dakota Budget & Policy Project hopes more people get interested and involved with the legislative budget.

"The goal is to give people the opportunity to learn how the budget process works. To be engaged in state government, you have to know where your opportunities are to have influence. So you need to know how the budget is put together, when you can provide input, and also learn what some of the key issues are that are facing the state and the facts around them."

The meetings, now being held across the state, will extend into early December. Smolnisky acknowledges it can be difficult to get more people involved in the whole process.

"Making the budget really interesting is a challenge. But it affects every South Dakotan, so it is part of our civic duty to understand our taxing system and understand our expenditure system. If we want to have a government that reflects our values, it's up to us as citizens to make sure we do our homework."

The meetings are cosponsored by the South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension Service. Meetings have already been held in Mitchell, Yankton and Ft. Pierre, with the next meeting scheduled for this week in Winner.

More information is available at www.sdbudgetandpolicyproject.org.


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