Technical Services represents the infrastructure acquisition costs. The costs include such items as hardware, software, switches, and other physical items.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $41,456,900 from all sources for Technical Services. This is a 12.9 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $26,615,900 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 36.4 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:
Technical Services provides the network infrastructure required to deliver UEN's services. It covers circuits, routers, switches, Internet access facilities, filtering, network security and monitoring, and other hardware and software. It also supports connectivity for mission critical applications used by public education institutions, colleges and universities, libraries, and state government.
The following table displays budget data for the Technical Services program.
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.