Erin Mendenhall

Mayor

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January 6, 2020–January 2, 2024, elected in 2019 · 2019 municipal general election results, Salt Lake County
January 2, 2024–present, re-elected in 2023 · 2023 general election results, Salt Lake County

Co-founded the nonprofit Breathe Utah in 2010, was appointed to Utah's Air Quality Board in 2014 and served six years on the Salt Lake City Council for District 5, one as chair, after her 2013 election. Holds a bachelor's degree in gender studies and a master's in science and technology from the University of Utah. · Salt Lake City, Mayor's Biography

Disclosed interests

2025 conflict-of-interest disclosure, signed Jan. 16, 2025

Employer: None
Other: Answered No to outside employment and to being an officer, director, owner or employer of a business. Lists Renae Properties, LLC (residential rental) and states she holds no position or interest in it; the form says her husband is the sole owner.

Disclosures and recusals in the minutes

Every time the council minutes since 2020 record this official disclosing an interest or stepping aside for one, as summarized from the minutes.

None recorded.

Campaign contributions

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In our reporting

Pipeline opponents press Emigration Canyon and Salt Lake City leaders to take a stand Save Our Canyons presented a petition with 1,281 signatures to the Emigration Canyon Council, which took no vote.
Salt Lake City's answer to the state utilities audit sets June, July and summer 2027 targets 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.
Downtown district plan adds 6,000-seat concert hall and rebuilt Delta Center entrance Smith Entertainment Group and city and county leaders say the redesigned blocks around the Delta Center and Salt Palace should be finished before the 2034 Winter Games.
The Delta Center rebuild and Salt Lake's sports district, explained A half-cent sales tax is paying to remake the Delta Center and the blocks around it, while a separate group pursues a Major League Baseball team for the city's west side.
Utah's 2034 Winter Games, explained Utah won its second Winter Olympics in 2024 with its venues already standing, so the run-up to 2034 is about money, transit, legacy programs and who is in charge.

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