AUGUSTA – State budget talks stalled Friday as further deliberations and negotiations were pushed into next week.

“Well, I was hoping I could say ‘may as well get finished’ instead of ‘may as well get started,”‘ a subdued Sen. Jill Goldthwait, the independent co-chairman from Bar Harbor, told her Appropriations Committee colleagues at about 6 p.m. after a full day of private discussions among lawmakers, King administration officials and advocates for a variety of causes.

The committee agreed temporarily to make available $15 million from a tobacco settlement fund for possible budget items.

Earlier, the panel agreed in similarly preliminary fashion to a change in the timing of payments under the business equipment tax reimbursement program that could save the state $13.6 million.

Both actions, subject to more review, track proposals laid out as part of Gov. Angus King’s $5 billion biennial budget package.

The committee still faces a potential gap between proposed expenditures and sources of revenue, but some lawmakers continue to point to options that include tapping various reserve funds.

Republican Rep. Richard Nass of Acton said spending demands outside the budget package continue to rise, putting pressure on the Appropriations panel to hold the line.

“How much of those reserves are we going to end up spending to fill these requests? To me, that’s the question at this point,” Nass said.

Tabled matters spawning debate have included state liquor store closings, worth relatively small savings of $5.5 million, and a school technology fund holding $50 million.

“We’re still working amicably toward a resolution,” said Democratic Rep. Randall Berry of Livermore, the panel’s other co-chairman.

There had been hope by some within the committee that major budget decisions could be completed by Friday or at least over the weekend, but prospects now are for more extended talks.

Goldthwait noted as the panel broke up Friday that its own schedule for hearing other bills means members are unlikely to be able to return to tabled budget items during the day Monday.

Republican Sen. Peter Mills of Skowhegan, meanwhile, said he believed the committee’s approach now is to sketch an outline to detail spending demands and corresponding funding sources that could be presented for debate to the House and Senate caucuses of both Democrats and Republicans.

Such a product, he suggested, would be something less than a final committee-endorsed tax-and-spending package.