Utah Ends Budget Year With $166m Surplus

Utah leaders got good news Tuesday — the state finished the 2014 budget year with a tidy $166 million surplus and will have a sizable chunk of that available to spend when they meet next year. After some required earmarks — money that is statutorily required to go to the Rainy Day Funds and the Disaster Recovery Fund, among others — a total of $112 million is left, all but $7 million from higher-than-projected income tax collections that are constitutionally earmarked to be spent on public and h...