Budget

The budget is about complete. Here are some of the earmarks you mights find interesting:

Education
$100,000 for the I.B. Program (down from the $300k originally asked for, but finally some legislators realized this is a great program, one even Gov. Huntsman's son is a part of at West High)
$100,000 Head Start Funding
There will be a 2.5% increase in the WPU and teachers will get a $1700 raise. They are still negotiating about a one time $25 million that would raise the WPU about a percent.

Recreation & Arts
$107,000 Provo's Freedom Festival
$25,000 Antelope Island's Balloon Festival
$50,000 Heber Valley Railroad
$50,000 Utah Cowboy Hall of Fame in Ogden (yee-haw)
$357,000 Thanksgiving Point Museum
$350,000 "We Shall Remain" Native American documentary
$178,000 Ballet West & Capitol Theater
$100,000 Gunnison Community Theater Restoration

Etc.
$75, 000 for public education program about Autism & developmental disabilities
$178,500 Meth decontamination program
$100,000 Eye Care for Kids

And my "favorite": $150,000 for study on a road over Utah Lake. Like we can't already guess what that feasibility study will show? (If you thought environmentalists raised a ruckus over the Legacy Highway, you'll love to hear what they have to say about this project.) Source