State Planning Coordinator (801) 589-8479 laurahanson@utah.gov Laura joined the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget (GOPB) in 2021 with over 20 years of experience as a professional planner in both the public and private sectors. Prior to …
SALT LAKE CITY (June 2, 2021) — To address air quality concerns and protect employee safety, eligible state employees will surge remote work on bad air quality and other special circumstance days, such as blizzard conditions. Thursday, June 3, will be the …
SALT LAKE CITY (May 26, 2021) — The Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget (GOPB) released a remote work guide to inform executive branch agency efforts to maintain benefits of remote work as many employees return to their assigned offices. Utah led the …
SALT LAKE CITY (May 24, 2021) — The Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget (GOPB) recently completed a study of executive branch state employees, their wages, and demographic and workplace characteristics such as gender, minority status, tenure, and work …
SALT LAKE CITY (May 10, 2021) — Responsive government requires long-term vision. Recent reorganization of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget (formerly the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget) will streamline planning, budgeting, …
One of the goals of the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs (UDVMA) is to connect veterans to available federal, state, and local resources to help veterans live a successful life. This effort includes helping veterans process fully developed …
It’s not possible or affordable for the state to keep offenders separated from the public indefinitely. In fact, the state’s re-entry system, or the system that transitions offenders from prisons or supervision back to freedom with supervision and …
Robust testing is only as effective as the speed at which it is performed, and the Utah Public Health Laboratory (UPHL) is doing its part to improve how it performs. Due to a short incubation period before a COVID-positive individual becomes infectious, …
Robust testing is only as effective as the speed at which it is performed, and the Utah Public Health Laboratory (UPHL) is doing its part to improve testing in Utah. Due to a short incubation period before a COVID-positive individual becomes infectious, …
Only nine states are near or have exceeded testing minimums estimated by Harvard. Utah is one of them. Click here to read the article.
Utah is approaching the second phase of the Utah Leads Together plan. This is possible due to the state’s early efforts in approaching the pandemic as not only a medical problem, but also an operations problem. Along with medical expertise, we need …
Several states have launched new efforts to contain Covid-19, laying plans to test aggressively and track the potentially infected with help from nonprofits, universities and the private sector. Massachusetts, Utah and North Dakota are among those working …
STATES SUCH AS Minnesota and Utah that both conduct regular stress tests to prepare for unexpected shocks to economic growth and tax revenues and that have robust rainy day funds are among those better positioned to ride out the worst of the ongoing …
If you go to the hospital now in New York or San Francisco with symptoms of COVID-19 that aren’t bad enough to keep you in the hospital—maybe you have a fever and a cough and some shortness of breath but can still get enough oxygen on your own—you may be …
Results Since implementing improvements, including realigning staffing ratios and tasks, more than 1100 additional hours have been freed up to focus staff on delivering youths 12 hours of treatment a week for positive, sustainable change. The number of …
Gov. Gary Herbert had a big question for the five young people who sat in front of him Wednesday morning at Decker Lake Youth Center: How could Utah have helped them before they were sent to this place? The five boys had broken the law and a judge …
Governor Gary Herbert visited Decker Lake Youth Center in West Valley City Wednesday, and he met with some of the juveniles offenders who are incarcerated there. “We recognize that sometimes our young people get off on the wrong foot, going down the wrong …
Gov. Gary Hebert outlined his latest and last budget plan Wednesday morning, which includes $300 million more dollars for public education, amounting to a 4.5% increase in the “weighted pupil unit.” Read More >>
1. How will the new tax law affect me personally? It’s difficult to say without knowing your specific income or household size. But we can tell you that about 85 percent of Utahns will pay less under our new tax system than they paid under the old one. …
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