Auditing South Salt Lake
The Ledger's review of South Salt Lake's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money.
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Background
Auditing South Salt Lake: what the city's own records show about its money
A records-only look at South Salt Lake's audited report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2025, and its fiscal 2027 budget process: net position, the General Fund, debt, the sewer fund, the audit opinion and the redevelopment agency.
Read the explainer →Latest update · October 16, 2026
South Salt Lake's public works campus: a $40.7 million bond for a $38 million project
South Salt Lake financed its new public works campus with Series 2024 sales tax revenue bonds of $40,665,000 in principal. The audited report puts the project's projected cost at about $38 million, and a February 2026 update set completion for June 2027.
Timeline
- South Salt Lake's public works campus: a $40.7 million bond for a $38 million project
- South Salt Lake's transportation utility fee: business complaints and a proposal to add homes
- South Salt Lake proposed a 12.99% property tax revenue increase for public safety
- South Salt Lake's sewer fund deficit and the September sewer fee ordinance
Latest updates
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South Salt Lake's public works campus: a $40.7 million bond for a $38 million project
South Salt Lake financed its new public works campus with Series 2024 sales tax revenue bonds of $40,665,000 in principal. The audited report puts the project's projected cost at about $38 million, and a February 2026 update set completion for June 2027.
- Politics
South Salt Lake's transportation utility fee: business complaints and a proposal to add homes
After 19 speakers objected to South Salt Lake's transportation utility fee in March 2026, the council took up ordinances that would add a $1.71 monthly residential charge and cut business rates by about 39%. The records reviewed don't show the final vote.
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South Salt Lake proposed a 12.99% property tax revenue increase for public safety
South Salt Lake's Truth in Taxation notice proposed $1,839,537 in additional annual property tax revenue for its public safety levy, an increase of 12.99% over the prior year's budgeted property tax revenue. A hearing was held Aug. 11, 2026.
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South Salt Lake's sewer fund deficit and the September sewer fee ordinance
The city's fiscal 2025 audit shows a $7.45 million unrestricted deficit in the sewer fund, tied in part to Central Valley's 2024 sewer bonds, and says sewer rates will need to rise. A sewer fee ordinance was on the council's Sept. 9 and Sept. 23, 2026 agendas.