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Midvale City Directory

City Hall

801-567-7200

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Court 801-567-7265

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Community Development 801-567-7211

Public Works 801-567-7235

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Midvale Historical Museum 801-567-7285

Midvale Senior Center 385-468-3350

SL County Animal Services 385-468-7387

Communications 801-567-7230

Midvale City Elected Officials

MAYOR

Marcus Stevenson 801-567-7204

Email: mstevenson@midvale.com

CITY COUNCIL

District 1 - Quinn Sperry

Email: qsperry@midvale.com

District 2 - Paul Glover

Email: pglover@midvale.com

District 3 - Heidi Robinson

Email: Hrobinson@midvale.com

District 4 - Bryant Brown

Email: bbrown@midvale.com

District 5 - Dustin Gettel

Email: dgettel@midvale.com

WHO TO CALL FOR…

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PUBLIC SAFETY & EMERGENCY CONTACTS

EMERGENCY 911

UFA Fire/UPD Police

> Non-emergency 801-840-4000

Uni ed Police Department

> Midvale Precinct 385-468-9350

Public Works 801-567-7235

Rocky Mountain Power 877-508-5088

Message

Recently, Salt Lake County and the Unied Police Department completed a study to determine where youth violence originates. While crime statistics usually look at where a crime occurred, these two groups put together information to show where the criminal came from. This data shows that Midvale City has one of the highest youth violence rates in Salt Lake County. Unfortunately, our kids are going into other communities and committing violent crimes.

Since this discovery, we’ve been working to create more youth programming outside of the school system in hopes of providing the youth in our community more opportunities. In this month’s mayor’s message, I want to talk about some of programs we are working to start.

Youth Leadership Program

For several years, Midvale operated a Youth Ambassador program where high school students would participate in a service-based leadership program for the city. During their time, each student would complete community service projects, participate on the City’s parade oat, serve as ambassadors over community events, and then received a $1,000 scholarship for

By Mayor Marcus Stevenson

they’d learn about how cities work, the projects we are working on, issues facing our community, and in turn get their feedback on how we can better respond to community needs. In order to get feedback on our proposed program, I recently did two town halls at Hillcrest High School. The 100 or so students who attended were engaged, observant, and committed to bettering their community. I was incredibly impressed with their feedback and questions, especially around gangs, homelessness, and requests for more job training programs before they leave high school.

While we are still guring out details on this program, we hope to have it up and running beginning next school year.

Sports Programming

Unfortunately, it can be harder to nd youth sport programs in Midvale than it is in many of our surrounding communities. That reality exists for a few reasons, but one of the largest being that our county owned and operated recreation center is at the end of its life and doesn’t have the same commodities that exist in many other rec. centers. While a long-term project, Midvale City is working to secure the funding needed for a new rec. center which will provide more youth sports programming. More immediately than a new rec. center, we have been in preliminary conversations to bring in new soccer program into the city. Speci cally, we’ve been starting conversations with AYSO and Utah Avalanche to provide more soccer opportunities for Midvale’s youth. While we still have a lot to gure out with bringing in either group, we hope to have these programs expanded in our community sometime in the near future.

Gang Prevention

While both the youth leadership program and sports programming are geared towards keeping kids out of gang violence, we are also working to help those who have already entered it. We are partnering with the Salt Lake Area Gang Project and Choose Gang Free to provide gang prevention programming outside of school hours in the evening and during the summer break.

college. While this program was limited to 3-5 students each year because of the scholarship funds, it was a staple of our community for many years. With the COVID pandemic, this program was put on hold and has not been brought back.

As our city has discussed restarting the youth ambassador program, I’ve pushed to create a new program that allows for more kids to be able to participate. This has led us to conversations around starting a youth council, or a youth leadership program, which is what we are working on right now.

In short, the idea of a youth leadership program is to allow youth in our community to get involved in local government where

Fortunately, the pieces have been put into place for this program and it will be starting shortly. This program will work one-on-one with individuals involved in gangs and help get them out by providing a support system. That support may be anything from reducing food insecurities, helping to nd employment, or getting these kids into new hobbies.

The Goal

While we hope to see the immediate impacts of the work we are doing now, kids make poor decisions for a variety of reasons, and it will likely take years before we see any signi cant changes. In the meantime, it’s critical that our city act urgently in hopes that our e orts will make the lives better for youth in our community, and that will translate into better lifelong outcomes.