Report No. 2008-98
December 2008
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The following report is our audit of the Department of Public Safety, Missouri State Highway Patrol's Use of Highway Funds.

Approximately $343,000 of the $167,000,000 appropriated to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) from the State Highways and Transportation Department Fund (State Highway Fund) was not spent for highway-related activities during fiscal year 2008 and therefore was not spent in compliance with state law.

In its budget requests for fiscal year 2006, 2007, and 2008, the MSHP included reallocations of funding from highway funds to other funds for the Crime Laboratory Division, Training Division, Technical Services Bureau and Administrative Services Bureau. While a reallocation of approximately $2 million was received in fiscal year 2008 for ongoing non-highway activities and internal funding changes have been made, additional reallocations of funding are needed for the MSHP to comply with state law. Although the MSHP requested funding be reallocated from highway funds to other funds in its fiscal year 2009 budget, no reallocation was approved.

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