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