FY 2016 Appropriation
Funding History
Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $12,503,100 from all sources for Field Crews. This is a 2.8 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources.

Appropriation Adjustments

In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:

DescriptionOngoingOne-Time UDOT FTE Transfers$25,400$25,400
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$25,400$0Transportation Fund
$0$25,400Transportation Fund, One-time
Transfer of funding associated with UDOT FTE transfers between line items

The responsibility of field crews is to oversee the actual construction of highway projects. Their assignment includes oversight of all aspects of highway construction. The field crews also oversee project control to ensure maximum safety measures are considered for the motoring public in a given construction area. The Field Crew program has one hundred and seventy one FTEs that are assigned throughout the State.

UDOT has implemented a program called Transportation Technicians - a mobile work force that moves back and forth between maintenance and construction depending on programmatic workload. All Construction and Maintenance level one, two, and three positions are part of the Transportation Technician classification.

Intent Language

HB0003: Item 33

Under terms of Section 63J-1-603(3)(a) Utah Code Annotated, the Legislature intends that appropriations provided for Operations in Item 2 of Chapter 4, Laws of Utah 2014 shall not lapse at the close of Fiscal Year 2015. The use of any non-lapsing funds is limited to the following: Highway Maintenance ($2,000,000).


SB0002: Item 24

The Legislature intends that the Department of Transportation use maintenance funds previously used on state highways that now qualify for Transportation Investment Funds of 2005 to address maintenance and preservation issues on other state highways.


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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.