Southern TOIP was established in January 2007 and is located within Dixie State University, with an extension office located at the Southern Utah University's Business Resource Center in Cedar City. Being located in one of the more rural areas of the state, the Southern TOIP has a niche for rural business development.
It provides business assistance services such as consulting, plan development, market/opportunity analysis, networking, product developing/testing, patent research, and presentations/connections to investor groups. Southern TOIP provides Go to Market funding for its region.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $396,500 from all sources for South. This is a 0.8 percent reduction from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $396,500 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 0.8 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.