The seven-member SITLA Board of Trustees is created in UCA 53C-1-202 . Its purpose as stated in UCA 53C-1-204 is to "...establish policies for the management of the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration."
Utah law requires the policies to:
- be consistent with the Utah Enabling Act, the Utah Constitution, and state law.
- reflect undivided loyalty to the beneficiaries consistent with fiduciary duties.
- require the return of not less than fair market value for the use, sale, or exchange of school and institutional trust assets.
- seek to optimize trust land revenues and increase the value of trust land holdings consistent with the balancing of short and long-term interests, so that long-term benefits are not lost in an effort to maximize short-term gains.
- maintain the integrity of the trust and prevent the misapplication of its lands and its revenues.
- have regard for and seek General Fund appropriation compensation for the general public's use of natural and cultural resources consistent with the duties of the administration as trustee for the beneficiaries.
UCA 53C-1-202 creates the board.
UCA 53C-1-204 establishes the board purpose to "...establish policies for the management of the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration."
The majority of expense in this program is for one half of an FTE to function as secretary to the Board of Trustees.
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.