Monument Designations May Impact Utah Education Funding
Public education leaders are voicing concerns over the long-term impact of national monument designations on classroom funding as Utah Senate Minority Leader Jim Dabakis (D-Salt Lake City) reportedly traveled to Washington, D.C. to encourage President Obama to designate national monuments in Utah. “Monument designations would inevitably capture hundreds of thousands of acres of school trust […]
School Trust Lands in Garfield, Millard, and San Juan Counties Available
SITLA will sell seven parcels of school trust land at its biannual public auction at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 28 in the SITLA Board Room at 675 East 500 South, Suite 600 in Salt Lake City. Widstoe Townsite parcels A, B, and C are approximately one acre each and located in John’s Valley on State […]
SITLA Cave Towers Stewardship Project
The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), along with 24 volunteers with the Friends of Cedar Mesa, held a weekend stewardship project aimed at protecting spectacular Cave Towers, an Ancestral Puebloan site at the head of Mule Canyon on Cedar Mesa in San Juan County. SITLA and Friends of Cedar Mesa volunteers installed 500 […]
Utah K-12 Schools to Receive $45.8 Million From Permanent School Fund
Elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the state will receive $45.8 million in School LAND Trust funds for the 2015-2016 school year, up 17 percent over last year. The School LAND Trust Office of the Utah Board of Education will distribute the record $45.8 million in annual interest and dividends from the $2 billion Permanent […]
SITLA Recruiting for New Director
SITLA is recruiting for a new director to replace Kevin Carter who will retire in December after 34 years of service to trust beneficiaries. As executive manager of the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, the director oversees management and administration of approximately 3.4 million acres of surface and mineral estate, and an additional 1 […]
Trust Land Transactions, Trustee Retirement and Appointment Top Upcoming Board Meeting
The Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) Board of Trustees will meet at 8 a.m. Thursday, June 18 in the SITLA Board Room located at 675 East 500 South in Salt Lake City. Trustees will review and consider several trust lands issues, including an appeal to a Record of Decision regarding the cancellation […]
SITLA Land Auction Earns $1.9M for Public Schools
The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) sold six trust land parcels at its biannual public auction June 3, earning $1,957,000 for Utah’s Permanent School Fund. Four separate parcels in Garfield County sold for a total of $647,000; a parcel in Millard County sold for $260,000; and a large 1,500-acre parcel in Grand County […]
Valley View Elementary, Salem Junior High Win #SITLAfunds15 Challenge
Congratulations to Valley View Elementary School in Davis School District and Salem Junior High School in Nebo School District for winning the inaugural #SITLAfunds15 Instagram Challenge. SITLA, in cooperation with the School Children’s Trust Office at the Utah Office of Education, organized the photo challenge asking K-12 students, parents, teachers, and administrators to show how […]
SITLA GIS Team Earns Governor’s Outstanding Employee Award
Congratulations to the SITLA GIS Team of Jessica Kirby, Kate Staley, Barry Biediger, and Megan Southwick, which received the Governor’s Outstanding Employee Award in a ceremony May 5 in the State Capitol rotunda. Led by Jessica Kirby, the GIS Team is innovative in creating mapping and data solutions for the entire agency. The GIS Team […]
SITLA Cultural Resources Team Honored with BLM Award
The Utah School and Institutional Trust Land Administration’s Cultural Resources Management Team (SITLA) was recently honored with the Bureau of Land Management’s 2015 Utah’s Partner in Cultural Resource Management Award. SITLA Chief Archaeologist Kenny Wintch accepted the award on behalf of his team, which includes archaeologists Kristine Curry, Joel Boomgarden, and Lisa Beck. The BLM […]