Not later than the first day in June in each year, the county auditor must make and present to the board for its use at the meeting thereof to be held in July for consideration of the annual budget for the following fiscal year a report showing:

(1) The amount of all budget appropriations for each purpose and object and for each item thereof, for each office, board, bureau, department, institution, and agency for the fiscal year immediately preceding, and showing the total amount of such appropriations payable out of each particular fund;

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 7-21-3

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Institutions and agencies: when used in connection with a county, all subdivisions and departments of a county which are under the supervision or control of the board of county commissioners. See South Dakota Codified Laws 7-21-1
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.

(2) The total amount expended by, through, or for each office, board, bureau, department, institution, and agency, and for each purpose and object and each item thereof, during the whole of the fiscal year immediately preceding, and showing the amount of such expenditures paid out of each particular fund;

(3) An estimate of the amount of all claims and demands on account of liabilities incurred or created during the fiscal year immediately preceding in payment for which no warrants, certificates, or orders have been issued, such estimate showing the amount of such claims and demands payable out of each particular fund;

(4) The balance unpaid on each contract payable out of any budget appropriation for the fiscal year immediately preceding;

(5) The amount of surplus, if any, in the appropriation for each office, board, bureau, department, institution, and agency, and in the appropriation for each purpose and object and such item thereof, for the fiscal year immediately preceding, at the close of such fiscal year, after deducting therefrom the estimated amount of unpaid claims and demands and all balances on contracts payable out of such appropriations;

(6) The balance in money, if any, in each fund at the close of the fiscal year immediately preceding;

(7) The total amount of all revenues received by, paid into, or deposited to the credit of each particular fund of the county and its institutions and agencies during the fiscal year immediately preceding, proper deductions and additions being made for all transfers made from one fund to another during such fiscal year.

Source: SL 1927, ch 79, § 13; SDC 1939, § 12.2011.