{"id":41056,"date":"2014-03-13T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41056"},"modified":"2014-03-13T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:22:02","slug":"n-d-budget-surplus-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=41056","title":{"rendered":"N.D. Budget Surplus Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/oilwells.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7251\" alt=\"oilwells\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/oilwells.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s oil wealth-fueled general fund surplus continues to grow.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Budget Director Pam Sharp says officials estimate the surplus will be at $457 million when the two-year budget cycle ends on June 30, 2015. The Bismarck Tribune reports that is a substantial increase from the $87 million projection when the Legislature adjourned last May.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The current biennium began last July 1. So far, the state has collected just under $2 billion in general fund revenues. That is more than 6 percent ahead of projections in May 2013.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The final revenue forecast for the 2015-17 budget cycle will come in November, with the governor&#8217;s budget address to follow in December during the organizational session for the 2015 Legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s oil wealth-fueled general fund surplus continues to grow. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Budget Director Pam Sharp says officials estimate the surplus will be at $457 million when the two-year budget cycle ends on June 30, 2015. The Bismarck Tribune reports that is a substantial increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41059,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056\/revisions\/41059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}