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Fiscal Affairs Program

Governing for Results

Utah

Links active September 12, 2000

Overview: Strategic planning in Utah is centered in the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget. The "Utah Tomorrow Strategic Planning Committee," which includes legislators, executive and judicial branch personnel and members of the public, advises on state strategic planning. The legislature has required performance budgets from a limited number of agencies or programs. For the 2001 legislative session these will include the Division of Wildlife Resources.

Studies: A summary of performance budgeting in Utah prefaces the 1999 report of the Legislative Fiscal Officer to the legislature's Executive Budget Committee, "Performance Based Budgeting: Division of Child and Family Services (Department of Human Services)":
http://www.le.state.ut.us/lfa/reports/dhs_pbb.pdf

Statutory Requirements:

"Utah Tomorrow":
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE36/htm/36_0B002.htm

Agencies andPrograms:

• Office of Planning and Budget:
  http://governor.state.ut.us/gopb/planning/planning.html
• Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst:
  http://www.le.state.ut.us/lfa/index.htm
• "Utah Tomorrow": Links appear on this site:
  http://governor.state.ut.us/gopb/planning/planning.html

Manual/Instructions:

Performance Measurement in the Public Sector
(Link appears on the following site):
http://governor.state.ut.us/gopb/planning/planning.html

Strategic Plans:

Utah Tomorrow Strategic Plan
http://www.governor.state.ut.us/planning/UtahTomorrow/StrategicPlan98.htm

Performance Measures: Statutes set performance reporting requirements for certain state agencies, but there is no requirement for agency performance reporting across the board.

Office of Planning and Budget: Performance Measurement guidelines for state agencies:
http://governor.state.ut.us/planning/Performance Measures/perform.htm

Statutes setting performance reporting requirements for various agencies:

Children and Family Services: Utah Code 62A-41-117:2:
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE62A/htm/62A04021.htm

Department of Community and Economic Development: Utah Code 9-2-1703
http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE09/htm/09_02070.htm

Applied Technology Centers: HB 1 of the 1999 Legislature, Item 255
http://www.le.state.ut.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?infobase=gs99bill&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42

Performance Reports

The Division of Child and Family Services has posted its "Outcome Measures Report" for 1998, which includes performance goals and workload and output measures as well as outcome measures. The report discusses the significance of the measures.
http://www.hsdcfs.state.ut.us/PDF/98Outcomes.pdf

The Department of Human Services has posted "DHS Outcomes" for 1998. The 1999 version is available from the department. The 1998 document provides comparable data from several years previous along with a discussion of the meaning of the data.:
http://www.dhs.state.ut.us/EDO/Outcome/outcome.htm

DHS underwent a Quality Services Review in 1999, whose results are posted here:
http://www.dhs.state.ut.us/EDO/Employee/empsurvey/pdf/FINALQUALITYREPORT.pdf

Posted 16 October 2000

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