Kansas Budget Director Steve Anderson issued the following statement today regarding erroneous budget numbers used recently by Gov. Sam Brownback.

“The Kansas Office of the Budget maintains internal records documenting the rolling expenditures of the State of Kansas.  The spreadsheet is updated regularly to record the most recent information.  Upon review, we have discovered a mistake in a 2010 entry which was the source of the error passed along by the budget office to Governor Brownback’s office.  We should have caught the incorrect information but we did not.  I apologize to Gov. Brownback and the citizens of Kansas for this error,” Director Anderson said.

The information Anderson used showed state spending peaking at about $16 billion in 2010 — the final year of Gov. Mark Parkinson’s administration. The actual spending that year was $14.04 billion.