Gov. Burgum finds ND Legislature’s budget transparency lacking
Gov. Doug Burgum identified both hits and misses in the $4.8 billion budget approved by the 2019 Legislature during an editorial meeting with the Minot Daily News Friday.
Having penned few vetoes, Burgum largely supported the direction the Legislature took, although he said there were areas where the state could have done more, “particularly when we’ve got the cash available to do it.”
“I think we had some missed opportunities that were significant,” Burgum said.
Those areas included shoring up the employee pension fund, funding university and private-partnership research, creating high school career academies like one in Bismarck and using Legacy Fund earnings to create a revolving loan fund for schools and political subdivisions.
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