Strategic Themes

• Approved permits for Google Fiber to begin installation of their network in Riverton, which will give most Riverton residents an additional option for high-speed internet service by the end of this year.

• Received $2 million in funding from Salt Lake County for improvements on the Welby Canal Trail.

• Utilizing America Rescue Plan Act funds to connect city-owned facilities with a fiber optic broadband infrastructure.

Economic Development

• Costco Wholesale opened a 160,000 squarefoot facility.

The following strategic themes have been selected by the Riverton City Council:

• Sense of Community

Objective 1.1: Maintain a strong sense of community.

Objective 1.2: Maintain a visible public safety and increase citizen engagement.

Objective 1.3: Actively engage and inform residents.

• Connectivity & Infrastructure

Objective 2.1: Expand, improve and maintain an active transportation system.

Objective 2.2: Properly maintain and develop city infrastructure and facilities.

Objective 2.3: Enhance the digital infrastructure of the city.

• Economic Development

Objective 3.1: Execute a proactive economic development strategy.

Objective 3.2: Attract and recruit businesses to the community.

Objective 3.3: Enhance the Riverton Town Center area.

• Sustainability

Objective 4.1: Improve and expand the city’s water resources and systems.

4.2: Become fiscally sustainable and increasingly self-reliant. Objective 4.3: Properly plan for the future to ensure the long-term stewardship of city property.

• Mountain View Village Phase 2 opened to the public, adding hundreds of thousands of additional square feet of commercial retail and office space.

• Cinemark opened a 14-screen luxury theater.

• 91 new commercial businesses opened in Riverton.

• 306 housing units were added last year with over

1,700 units being constructed or planned to be constructed in the next two years across the city.

Sustainability

• Received record sales tax revenue at over $11.2 million, an increase of 13% from the prior year, as a result of our robust economic development efforts.

• Maintained the lowest utility fees in the region.

• Paid off nearly $4.5 million in city debt.

• Secured $3 million from Salt Lake County’s America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for the installation of a reverse osmosis plant on the city’s Green Well.

• Secured $8.8 million from the State of Utah to help us complete the installation of secondary irrigation water meters on the remaining two-thirds of secondary water connections.

• Awarded $1.2 million from Salt Lake County grant funds to allow for a much-needed renovation to the first floor of the Sandra N. Lloyd Community Center this year.

• Saved property taxpayers $4 million in 2022 and over $10 million total since leaving the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area and forming the Riverton Law Enforcement Service Area.

To view Riverton City’s strategic priorities, visit rivertonutah.gov/ strategic-priorities.

Elected Officials

Trent Staggs - Mayor

Andy Pierucci - District 1

Troy McDougal - District 2

Tawnee McCay - District 3

Tish Buroker - District 4

Claude Wells - District 5

CITY MANAGER

David R. Brickey

Upcoming

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CITY COUNCIL

March 7 and 21, 7 p.m.

PLANNING COMMISSION

March 9 and 23, 6:30 p.m.

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