The Fiscal Services Section of the Office of Finance/Logistic Services manages the funding for the Division of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The section manages all of its funds and provides reporting and forecasting to the Superintendent and Director.

The biennial budget for the Division is authored by employees in fiscal services. Data and reports from all components of the Patrol are utilized to generate an accurate and responsible budget submission. The biennium budget for fiscal years 2008 – 2009 is more than $613 million.

Fiscal Services processes over 45,000 invoices each year; scores of vendor contracts are referred to daily as account examiners process payments. Employees manage a variety of funds from the operating account to federally supported funds. Major operations of the Highway Patrol typically begin and end within the scope of Fiscal Services. Personnel costings, as well as equipment expenditures, must be considered when deploying resources to projects such as the John Parson’s Manhunt and the Ohio State Fair.

The Patrol’s budget is divided into three main areas. Of the Patrol’s operating budget, approximately 79 percent is spent on human resources, 15 percent is used for maintenance items, and 6 percent is earmarked for equipment needs. Over the past years the funding for the Patrol consisted largely of motor vehicle fuel taxes. These funds are no longer available to the Patrol. Funding for the Patrol now consists largely of fees received from license and registration fees; the reminder consists of federal grants, fee and fines, general revenue funds, and self-supporting rotary accounts.

July 3, 2007, Fiscal Services will be using the new Ohio Administrative Knowledge System (OAKS) system to process account receivables, account payables and the Division’s budget.