The 2008 Legislature established the DFCM Planning Fund line item to authorize appropriations into or out of the fund. No additional funding has been appropriated to this fund since the FY 2008 appropriation.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $0 from all sources for DFCM Planning Fund. This is a 0 percent change from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources.
UCA 63A-5-211 creates the Planning Fund to pay for engineering, architectural, and other planning expenses necessary to make a meaningful cost estimate of any facility or improvement with a demonstrable or immediate need. The DFCM director may make expenditures from the fund to provide planning information to the Building Board, the governor, and the Legislature, up to a maximum of $350,000 in outstanding commitments. The amount paid is credited to the Planning Fund when the Legislature appropriates money for any project for which planning costs were previously paid from the Planning Fund.
During the 2008 General Session the Legislature moved $551,000 from the Capital Projects Fund to the Planning Fund.
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.