The Executive Director and staff lead and coordinate the Department's work with the Governor and other state agencies. The Executive Section coordinates the efforts of the various divisions of the Department in communicating established goals.
The Internal Auditor, who works directly for the Executive Director, is also part of this section. The Internal Auditor ensures effectiveness of controls and reliability of data. The Auditor also evaluates department adherence to plans, policies, procedures and laws, and coordinates with outside auditors conducting audits of divisions.
Responsibility for the Administration division is divided between the Executive Director and the Deputy Director. They are responsible for governance, policy, communications, operations, strategic planning, enterprise project oversight, digitization and administration.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $547,700 from all sources for Executive Director's Office. This is a 3.3 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $547,700 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 3.3 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:
A five year history of program funding is presented in the following table.
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.