Legislative leaders and Gov. Gary Herbert tied up a host of loose budget ends Tuesday, finding $12 million for critical programs and agreeing to delay a handful of road projects in order to build four college buildings.

Lawmakers diverted economic development and business recruitment funds for the additional money.

The cash would be used, among other things, to sustain the Drug Offender Reform Act, which diverts drug-addicted lawbreakers from prison or jail cells into treatment. Legislators came up with $2.9 million for the program, enough to provide treatment to about 600 people, according to Brent Kelsey, assistant director for the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

The Department of Corrections would receive $1.7 million to find a suitable location and begin retrofitting a parole violator center, in hopes of receiving money next year to operate the center, according to corrections director Tom Patterson.

Lawmakers also added $1 million to payments to county jails that house prison inmates, bringing the reimbursement money to $6 million.

And they found $500,000 for a scholarship program for Utah National Guard soldiers.

Legislators agreed to a plan put forward by Herbert that would postpone a series of road projects for at least a year.

The money would be put into four college buildings: $45 million for a Utah Valley University Health Science addition; a $35 million commons at Dixie State College; a $29 million Instructional and Administrative complex at Salt Lake Community College.

Another $4 million would go to Utah National Guard armory upgrades and repairs.

"You're generating jobs with that," said Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan.

He added that while there's plenty of work for the state's road contractors this year, there won't be much for building contractors after City Creek Center is complete in Salt Lake City.

The list of possible road construction delays originally provided to the Governor's Office and the Utah Department of Transportation included widening of U.S. Highway 89 in Orem, Geneva Road in Utah County, northbound Interstate 15 in south Davis County, right of way purchases for the Vineyard Connector in Utah County and an extension of 2000 West to I-15 in Davis County.

UDOT spokesman Nile Easton said the list hasn't changed, though it's "conceptual" and still needs approval from the Utah Transportation Commission.

Senate President Michael Waddoups wouldn't say whether legislators might change that list, but noted there are projects totaling about $140 million that don't have signed contracts, so there are options for reaching $113 million.

Rep. Stephen Clark, R-Provo, said Utah County officials are OK with delaying road projects in their county because the university needs are greater.

"It was more important to us to get the UVU building built than to have the roads, so we were willing to give up the roads for one year," he said.