2016 BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
- Total Budget: $15.1B, balanced
- State Funds: $6.4B
- Debt and Savings
- Paid down $335M in General Obligation debt
- No new debt authorized this session
- Total formal budget reserves of $491M
- Public/Higher Education
- $445M combined = 2/3 of new revenue
- $60 million into Education Rainy Day Fund
- $1.7M for additional staff at the State Office of Education
- Up to $4.4M for new financial management system at SOE
- WPU increase of 3% + .75% equivalent for equalization
- $16.8M for technology in classrooms (k-12)
- $17.2M for early learning initiatives
- $6.4M for arts programs
- $$7.2M to support targeted at-risk or rural student populations
- $2.5M ongoing for applied technology college campus program expansion
- $800,000 increase ongoing for applied technology college equipment
- $42.5M for SLCC Career and Technical Education Center
- $8M for SUU new Business Building and repurposed building
- $38M, funded over two years, for USU Biological Science Building
- $32M, funded over two years, for UVU Performing Arts Building
- Criminal Justice
- $2.4M new for Corrections
- $1M for Guardian ad Litem
- $1M for Highway Patrol
- $600,000 for State Court Judges
- $1.75M for 15 additional Adult Probation & Parole agents
- $5M in increases for county jails
- $1.5M one-time/$500,000 ongoing for Indigent Defense Commission
- $2M one-time to begin development of a statewide data coordination system to support JRI
- Social Services
- $10M to address homelessness
- $500,000 toward drug overdose programs
- $951,000 for increased monitoring of substance abuse treatment fraud
- Air Quality
- $6M for construction of a technical support center
- $1M for air quality monitoring
- $400,000 for research and awareness
- $150,000 for clean fuel conversion grant program