Meeting records through Oct. 20, 2026Approved minutes through Sept. 15, 202655 meetings use draft minutes95 agenda-based meetings have unresolved itemsCoverage and sources →
The Salt Lake City Council approved a zoning change on Oct. 20 that prohibits community correctional facilities and jails on private property in the city, according to the council's official meeting recap.
Topics recorded in the most recent 24 collected meetings. Counts describe meeting mentions, not a survey of residents or a finding that an issue is resolved.
Trace the decisions and financial records linked to Salt Lake City's projects. A budget, bond ceiling, contract authorization and actual payment describe different things.
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budget: $3.32 million — Additional funding, 2100 South reconstruction in Sugar House; budget: $3.20 million — Additional funding, 600/700 North reconstruction; budget: $400,000 — Security access control system upgrades; purchase: $135,993 — Downtown parking pay station replacements; budget: $500,000 — Police overtime for sanctioned campground pilot; contract: $250,000 — Consulting for enterprise billing systems Record → · Jan. 16, 2024
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budget: $568,000 — New park restroom (CIP item 31) Record → · Aug. 18, 2026
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grant: amount not given — Demolish and replace pavement on Taxiway F and parts of Taxiway G, including lighting and cabling; grant: amount not given — Real Time Crime Center expansion technology and equipment, plus a subaward to Salt Lake County; grant: amount not given — Aerial LiDAR snowpack surveys for water supply forecasting Record → · June 2, 2026
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The fee amounts, sewer fee option and effective dates in the ordinance as adopted. The council recap reviewed does not list them, and The Ledger has not obtained the adopted ordinance or updated fee schedule.
The council approved new water, sewer and stormwater impact fees on Oct. 6, 2026. The city's proposal roughly tripled the water fee for the smallest meter, to $5,577 from $1,871.
In its response to the Legislature's audit, the city said it would finish rate studies and financial plans by June 2027, complete and implement a sewer rate study by July 2027, and have a new billing system in place by summer 2027. It said the billing project was 36% complete.
Salt Lake County's tax-year 2025 report lists the downtown project area at $26.2 million. The agency held $337 million in net position at mid-2025 and owes developers under several reimbursement agreements.
The city's total debt about doubled from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2025, to $5.19 billion. General obligation bonds, the kind backed by property taxes, were $125.1 million.
Speakers at a ULI Utah conference said regional water use has stayed flat for 40 years as the population doubled, but that no conservation target exists yet.
A federal magistrate judge extended a stay in the city and county's lawsuit to Jan. 18 and barred converting the building into a detention center in the meantime.
Sandra Buendia is challenging incumbent Annie Romano for the Precinct 5 seat in the Nov. 3 election.
· From The Salt Lake Tribune
The Forest Service's Yates Building in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2013. File photo. Photo: Lance Cheung, U.S. Department of Agriculture · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons / USDA (US federal work)
Of 445 development, road and policy items tracked, 30 are awaiting a decision and had a meeting or update in the past 12 months. Another 156 are still open but have had no recorded action in over a year.
The Salt Lake City Council approved a zoning change on Oct. 20 that prohibits community correctional facilities and jails on private property in the city, according to the council's official meeting recap.
The October 13 work session agenda listed a 45-minute briefing from HF Sinclair on its proposed Westline Connect pipeline expansion, a briefing on rules for electric-assisted bicycles and other electric devices on…
