Utah Code 53G-7-304. Undistributed reserve in local school board budget
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(1) A local school board may adopt a budget with an undistributed reserve. The reserve may not exceed 5% of the maintenance and operation budget adopted by the local school board in accordance with a scale developed by the state board. The scale is based on the size of the school district’s budget.
Terms Used In Utah Code 53G-7-304
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
(2) The local school board may appropriate all or a part of the undistributed reserve made to any expenditure classification in the maintenance and operation budget by written resolution adopted by a majority vote of the local school board setting forth the reasons for the appropriation. The local school board shall file a copy of the resolution with the state board and the state auditor.
(3) The local school board may not use undistributed reserves in the negotiation or settlement of contract salaries for school district employees.