The Business Services program represents costs associated with tracking and reporting, allocating of MSP appropriations, gathering and analyzing statistical data such as educator information, local property tax, and pupil transportation, professional development, and technical assistance.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $2,164,500 from all sources for Business Services. This is an 8.2 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $2,324,700 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 7.1 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.