shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com July 24, 2018 • Page 5 Bringing Our Alcohol SDSU Extension Welcomes Laws To The 21st Century Nicholas Ciaramitaro By Gov. Dennis Daugaard When I speak with business prospects, I often praise our common sense regulatory environment. I emphasize that we don’t place unnecessary hurdles before our citizens or entrepreneurs in South Dakota. Success is allowed here and government doesn’t get in the way. Until very recently though, this hasn’t been the case for microbreweries in South Dakota. Many of South Dakota’s laws on alcohol were designed right after prohibition ended, including our laws governing microbreweries. Our statutes capped microbrewery production at 5,000 barrels of beer per year. This is very small, compared to Montana’s cap of 60,000, Wyoming’s cap of 50,000 and North Dakota’s cap of 25,000. Iowa had no cap at all. South Dakota also did not allow a microbrewery to sell its product directly to a retailer while Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa did. As of July 1, this is no longer the case. A bill I signed into law this past legislative session now allows microbreweries to produce up to 30,000 barrels of beer per year and they can also self-distribute their product. These updates will allow us to better compete with our surrounding states and help our homegrown craft breweries grow and thrive. I also signed several other bills this year to modernize our alcohol statutes – some of which just went into effect at the beginning of this month as well. Two of these new laws allow farm wineries, distillers and microcideries to hold other types of retail licenses and operate at additional locations under the same privileges. Other laws streamlined regulations for wine manufacturers, provided greater flexibility for charitable events and eliminated the prohibition on using alcohol in some types of foods. South Dakota’s alcohol laws were written over 80 years ago, during a very different era. I am glad we have streamlined and modernized our statutes, so that they make sense for a 21st Century economy. The new framework improves our already stellar business climate, and validates claims I’ve been making to our business prospects. BROOKINGS, S.D. - SDSU Extension recently hired Nicholas Ciaramitaro to serve as the SDSU Extension Agriculture & Society AmeriCorps VISTA Member. "Nicholas has a unique skill set and a passion for service that will provide capacity to SDSU Extension programs geared toward lifting individuals out of poverty," said Aimee House Ladonski, SDSU Extension Volunteer Development Field Specialist. SDSU Extension received an AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) grant in 2017. This grant will provide eight full-time AmeriCorps VISTA members to serve one-year terms working with SDSU Extension staff to increase knowledge of and access to physical and financial health and wellness techniques in effort to bring economically disadvantaged South Dakotans out of poverty. Ciaramitaro will work in a supportive role to Jason Schoch, SDSU Extension Tribal Local Foods Associ2018. ate. Other sources of "We are pleased to revenue with notable have Nick join our team. increases were the insurThe SDSU Tribal Local ance company tax and Foods Program is working lottery revenue, which to help empower Lakota grew 9.3 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively, over people to address food security, while simultaneFY2017. Ongoing receipts to the general fund totaled ously working to improve the overall general health, $1,593.4 million which grew 3.4 percent compared quality of life and wellbeing of the people and to the previous year. communities of Pine Ridge. South Dakota state government ended FY2018 by transferring $16.9 million to the Budget Reserve Fund, as required by law. The state’s Budget Reserve Fund now has a $132.4 million balance and the General Revenue Replacement Fund has a $44.0 million balance. The combination of those two funds, totaling $176.4 million, represents a combined reserve of 11.1 percent of the total general fund budget for FY2018. South Dakota Ends Fiscal Year With Surplus PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota state government closed the 2018 budget year on June 30 marking the seventh consecutive year with a surplus. The state general fund budget for Fiscal Year 2018 ended with lower expenditures and higher revenues than budgeted. State agencies demonstrated fiscal restraint by spending $10.7 million, or 0.67 percent, less than appropriated. Additionally, revenue for fiscal year 2018 exceeded estimates adopted by the Legislature last March by $6.2 million, or 0.38 percent. In total, the state’s budget for fiscal year 2018 ended with a $16.9 million surplus. “This marks the seventh consecutive year that we have maintained a structurally balanced budget. This was my number one priority when I took office and it still is as I finish my term as Governor,” said Gov. Daugaard. “Finishing fiscal year 2018 in the black puts South Dakota’s budget in a positive position as we begin the 2019 fiscal year.” Collectively, the three branches of state government spent $10.7 million less than appropriated. Of the general fund reversions, $8.5 million came from Executive Branch agencies, and $2.2 million came from the Unified Judicial System, the Legislature, the Board of Regents and constitutional offices. South Dakota’s sales and use tax receipts, the state’s largest revenue source, finished the fiscal year growing 4.0% over the prior fiscal year. Collections from the sales and use tax accounted for 61 percent of total general fund receipts in Fiscal Year MV Shopper MV LOW MILES Shopper M I S S O U R I VA L L E Y Nick's contributions to the team will greatly expand our efforts and impacts on Pine Ridge and we look forward to working beside him on creating a culturally-appropriate, small-acreage agricultural system for new tribal farmers," Schoch said. More about Nicholas Ciaramitaro A recent graduate of University of Missouri with a Bachelors of Science inBiology, Ciaramitaro was eager to become involved as a SDSU Extension Agriculture & Society VISTA Member. "It is appealing to me due to the location of the assignment, I wanted to address and understand the challenges of food security in reservations and rural communities like Winner," said Ciaramitaro, who in the future, plans to pursue a law degree focused in environmental justice. SDSU Extension AmeriCorps VISTA Positions Open SDSU Extension is recruiting for the following 2018-2019 AmeriCorps VISTA Positions: Health Outreach VISTA Member - Join an exciting effort modeled after Stanford University's chronic disease self-management program, supported by premiere healthcare partners. Plan events, market the program, engage partners and more. Healthy Schools Advisor VISTA Member - Join a team dedicated to strengthening nutrition education programs and fostering healthy school environments. Member will build support for school breakfast and farmto-school programs. Agriculture & Society 4-H VISTA Member - Do you desire to help shape cutting-edge, team-based programming that serves those in need? Co-lead advancement of the Science of Ag Program and Life Skills Workforce Food Access Program. SDSU Grant Program VISTA Member - Never a dull moment in the College of Agriculture and Biological Grant Program Office. 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