FY 2016 Appropriation

GOED Administration provides leadership to the two strategic program areas in the Office: Business Development and Tourism. It also provides support to the Pete Suazo Utah Athletics Commission and the Office of Consumer and Health Services, an office created to implement the Utah Health Exchange. Administration defines, develops and implements strategies and provides fiscal guidance and support to the programs. Administration also provides oversight and support to the Utah Sports Commission, Utah World Trade Center, and other legislated pass through programs.

Office of Consumer and Health Services

The Office of Consumer and Health Services (OCHS) is responsible for overseeing Avenue H and coordinating the State's efforts to make healthcare coverage more accessible and affordable for Utah businesses and citizens.

Funding History

Funding Issues

Avenue H

Avenue H is Utah's small business health exchange program. The program has been funded on a one-time basis for the past several years. Last years funding was $800,000.

Business Marketing

GOED received both ongoing and one-time funds for business marketing. This recommendation would eliminated the ongoing funds and look at replacing them with one-time funds through committee reallocations.
Appropriation Overview

During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $13,030,100 from all sources for Administration. This is a 21.9 percent reduction from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $12,233,300 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 11.9 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.

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 Advanced Materials Manufacturing Initiative$0$750,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$750,000General Fund, One-time
Funding to foster and grow Utah's Advanced Materials Manufacturing cluster using collaboration centers.
Antelope Island Stampede Festival ($10,000) ($10,000)
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
($10,000)$0General Fund
$0 ($10,000)General Fund, One-time
Eliminate ongoing funding of $10,000 provided for the Antelope Island Stampede Festival since the festival is on hold indefinitely.
Attorney General Dedicated Credit Adjustments$4,900$0
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$4,900$0General Fund
This item designates additional funding appropriated to an agency to pay higher costs for Attorney General services, due to statewide and AG-specific compensation increases.
Avenue H$750,000$0
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$750,000$0General Fund
Avenue H is Utah's small business health exchange program. The program has been funded on a one-time basis for the past several years. Last years funding was $800,000.
Big Outdoors Expo$0$150,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$150,000General Fund, One-time
Funding for the Big Outdoor Expo in Utah County. Request for Appropriation from Rep. Gibson for $150,000 one-time GF.
Boys and Girls State Camp$0$50,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$50,000General Fund, One-time
To subsidize Boys and Girls State at Weber State University.
Cedar City Business Resource Center$0$25,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$25,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Center for Education, Business, and the Arts$0$100,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$100,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Clear Horizons (Autism) Academy$0$100,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$100,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Davis County Achievement Center$0$15,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$15,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Hill Airforce Base Air Show$0$150,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$150,000General Fund, One-time
Funding for the Hill Air Show which occurs every 2 years.
NICA Utah League$0$20,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$20,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Ogden Housing Unit Reduction$0$750,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$750,000General Fund, One-time
Historic Preservation in Ogden to convert old multi housing units into single family units.
Sichuan Province Partnership$0$240,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$240,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Sports Commission$0$500,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$500,000General Fund, One-time
Funding is used to promote Utah as a sporting destination in additional to providing grants for a variety of sporting events that come to the state.
Sundance Expansion$0$300,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$300,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Sundance Institute and GOED Co-branding$0$1,000,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$1,000,000General Fund, One-time
Advertising for Sundance Institute and GOED.
Taste Utah Advertising and Marketing$0$150,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$150,000General Fund, One-time
To fund an advertising campaign through the Utah Restaurant Association.
Transfer Mountain Accord to GOED$0$3,000,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$3,000,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Uintah Fire Department$0$250,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$250,000General Fund, One-time
Request for Appropriation to upgrade the Uintah Fire Department building.
Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy$0$15,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$15,000General Fund, One-time
Expanded support for the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy.
Utah Summer Games$0$50,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$50,000General Fund, One-time
State support for the Summer Games in Cedar City.
World Parliament of Religions Conference$0$225,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$225,000General Fund, One-time
To support the World Parliament of Religions Conference held on October 15-19. Find unity amongst world faiths. Estimate ~10,000 visitors. This would help bring speakers and subsidize speaker housing costs
World Trade Center Utah$0$75,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$75,000General Fund, One-time
No Description
Your Utah, Your Future (Envision Utah)$0$500,000
OngoingOne-TimeFinancing Source
$0$500,000General Fund, One-time
Funding for the strategic planning and advertising efforts of the Your Utah, Your Future Campaign.

The Governor's Office of Economic Development Administration program uses activity to business.utah.gov and activity to Avenue H (Utah's health exchange) as measures of administrative success.Avenue H ActivityActivity on business.utah.gov

Intent Language

HB0003: Item 56

Under Section 63J-1-603 of the Utah Code, the Legislature intends that appropriations provided for the Governor's Office of Economic Development Administration in Laws of Utah 2014, Chapter 10, Item 8 shall not lapse at the close of FY 2015. The use of any non-lapsing funds is limited to system management enhancements: $200,000; business marketing efforts: $300,000; and health system reform: $700,000.

SB0002: Item 57

The Legislature intends that $240,000 of the one-time appropriation in Administration be used for the Sichuan Province Partnership. The Legislature intends: (1) this appropriation is nonlapsing; (2) GOED ensure that this appropriation is spent to create and organize a legal entity to promote business, education, and investment between Utah and Sichuan, China; (3) GOED may delegate the task of creating and organizing the entity to the World Trade Center Utah; (4) in creating and organizing the entity, GOED shall consult with the World Trade Center Utah, the co-chairs of the Business and Labor Interim Committee, and the co-chairs of Utah International Relations and Trade Commission; (5) GOED may only release monies to the entity after it is legally created; and (6) the new entity, with the assistance of GOED and World Trade Center Utah shall: (a) report to the Business and Labor Interim Committee, and the Utah International Relations and Trade Commission by October 31, 2015; (b) provide an accounting of the expenditure of this appropriation; and (c) provide proposed legislation to that committee and commission to formally create, or authorize the creation of, the entity in statute.

SB0003: Item 11

The Legislature intends that $3,000,000 provided by this item be used to support the Mountain Accord and that, under section 63J-1-603 of the Utah Code, up to $3,000,000 not lapse at the close of fiscal year 2015.

SB0003: Item 93

The Legislature intends that $3,000,000 provided by this item be used to support the Mountain Accord and that, under section 63J-1-603 of the Utah Code, up to $3,000,000 not lapse at the close of fiscal year 2015.

The Administration is funded through General Fund and some federal funds for the Office of Consumer and Health Services.

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