Auditing West Jordan
The Ledger's review of West Jordan's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money.
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Background
Auditing West Jordan: what the city's audit and budget show about its money
West Jordan's fiscal 2025 audit drew an unmodified opinion and showed a $22.7 million General Fund balance. The city's adopted fiscal 2027 budget plans to spend $55.9 million more than it takes in, drawing on reserves, mostly for capital projects.
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West Jordan's FY2027 budget carries $1.4 million for the Ron Wood Park well
The adopted Water Fund plan identifies Well 8 as a carryover project. City updates describe construction progress, while spending totals and a commissioning date remain outside the records reviewed.
Timeline
- West Jordan's FY2027 budget carries $1.4 million for the Ron Wood Park well
- West Jordan's agency paid $1.72 million under three incentive agreements in fiscal 2025
- West Jordan borrowed $12 million for park fields in 2024
- West Jordan's development fee fund was $305,827 in the red at the end of March 2026
- West Jordan plans $2.77 million in water, sewer and stormwater transfers to its General Fund in fiscal 2027
Latest updates
- Politics
West Jordan's FY2027 budget carries $1.4 million for the Ron Wood Park well
The adopted Water Fund plan identifies Well 8 as a carryover project. City updates describe construction progress, while spending totals and a commissioning date remain outside the records reviewed.
- Politics
West Jordan's agency paid $1.72 million under three incentive agreements in fiscal 2025
The agency's adopted fiscal 2027 budget shows $951,949 paid to the Bangerter Station development and $771,999 under the PayPal and Aligned Energy agreements in fiscal 2025. It budgets $1.74 million for the three agreements in fiscal 2027.
- Politics
West Jordan borrowed $12 million for park fields in 2024
The city issued $12 million in sales tax revenue bonds in October 2024 for multipurpose fields and other park projects and plans to repay them with park impact fees. A proposed recreation center at Ron Wood Park depends on a Salt Lake County bond going to voters in November.
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West Jordan's development fee fund was $305,827 in the red at the end of March 2026
An unaudited quarterly report shows West Jordan's Development Services Fund spent more than it took in from July 2025 through March 2026. The adopted fiscal 2027 budget says the General Fund is covering the fiscal 2026 deficit and budgets another transfer this year.
- Politics
West Jordan plans $2.77 million in water, sewer and stormwater transfers to its General Fund in fiscal 2027
A city staff presentation sets out $1.575 million from water, $895,000 from sewer and $300,000 from stormwater for fiscal 2027, separate from $5.25 million in estimated administrative charges to the same utilities.