Compendium of Budget Information for the 2010 General Session

Capital Facilities & Government Operations
Appropriations Subcommittee
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Agency: ISF - Technology Services

Function

The Department of Technology Services (DTS) acts as Utah's central service provider for information technology (IT) related activities. While the Legislature appropriates a part of the DTS budget, the other part is financed by billing customer agencies. This chapter addresses that latter portion of DTS, the Internal Service Fund (ISF) portion.

Internal Service Funds employ business practices to provide a service or product for other state and governmental agencies. They take advantage of economies of scale, avoid duplication of efforts, and provide an accounting mechanism to adequately identify costs of certain governmental services.

The DTS Internal Service Fund contains two programs: Agency Services and Enterprise Technology.

Statutory Authority

The following statutes govern the Department of Technology Services Internal Service Fund:

  • UCA 63F-1-103 creates the Department of Technology Services and gives DTS authority to operate as an internal service fund
  • UCA 63F-1-301 creates an Information Technology Rate Committee that reviews and approves all rates before they are charged by DTS. The rate committee forwards such rates to the Legislature for final authorization
  • UCA 63J-1-410, the 'Budgetary Procedures Act,' defines internal service funds and sets guidelines for their operations

In order to control the size, mission, and fees charged to state agencies, the Legislature imposed statutory controls ( UCA 63J-1-410 ) that require ISFs to respond to the legislative budget process. No ISF can bill another agency for its services unless the Legislature has: approved the ISF's budget request, FTE, capital acquisitions, rates, fees, and other charges; published the annual rates and fees in an appropriations act; and appropriated the ISF's estimated revenue.

To eliminate negative working capital, an ISF may borrow from the General Fund as long as the debt is repaid over the useful life of the asset and the deficit working capital is greater than ninety percent of the value of the ISF's fixed assets.

Funding Detail

Consolidation of the former Department of Administrative Service Division of Information Technology Services (ITS) into DTS began in FY 2006. In FY 2007 all state agency information technology employees transferred from state agencies into the Agency Services program within DTS.

Sources of Finance
2006
Actual
2007
Actual
2008
Actual
2009
Actual
2010
Approp
Dedicated Credits - Intragvt Rev $50,784,300 $124,132,500 $138,053,700 $144,372,600 $132,335,000
Sale of Fixed Assets $0 $0 $61,800 $14,500 $0
Total
$50,784,300
$124,132,500
$138,115,500
$144,387,100
$132,335,000
 
Line Items
2006
Actual
2007
Actual
2008
Actual
2009
Actual
2010
Approp
ISF - DTS Operations $50,784,300 $124,132,500 $138,115,500 $144,387,100 $132,335,000
Total
$50,784,300
$124,132,500
$138,115,500
$144,387,100
$132,335,000
 
Categories of Expenditure
2006
Actual
2007
Actual
2008
Actual
2009
Actual
2010
Approp
Personnel Services $18,114,100 $78,493,200 $81,531,500 $80,734,900 $84,834,100
In-state Travel $55,000 $102,700 $96,400 $76,800 $249,900
Out-of-state Travel $59,800 $173,700 $188,500 $100,300 $243,600
Current Expense $15,815,500 $17,895,800 $19,457,800 $17,931,000 $23,905,200
DP Current Expense $9,404,100 $24,485,900 $31,303,400 $34,668,100 $17,381,700
DP Capital Outlay $0 $0 $5,134,900 $2,611,700 $0
Capital Outlay $0 $0 $0 $734,900 $0
Other Charges/Pass Thru $395,500 $3,417,800 $677,900 $772,100 $814,400
Depreciation $3,251,400 $3,265,400 $4,088,000 $4,523,300 $5,130,000
Total
$47,095,400
$127,834,500
$142,478,400
$142,153,100
$132,558,900
 
Other Indicators
2006
Actual
2007
Actual
2008
Actual
2009
Actual
2010
Approp
Budgeted FTE 472.0 933.0 1,089.0 933.0 903.0
Actual FTE 232.8 839.6 804.2 770.2 0.0
Authorized Capital Outlay $5,101,600 $4,583,500 $3,907,400 $5,566,500 $11,000,000
Retained Earnings $10,855,800 $7,153,800 $2,790,900 $5,024,800 ($2,645,300)
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