When she discovered many students had special dietary needs, she went out of her way to provide alternative lunch op tions for Manythem.ofthe students don’t eat meat due to cultural or per sonal reasons. Heartland has students that are Muslim and Jewish who follow specific food preparation rules. The district provides about 10 substitute meatless meals but Stafford didn’t want to keep serving alternative sunbutter sand wiches, salads, and plain noodles, which made the kids stand out as different from their peers.
“Kim not only took initiative to meet with the dietician and find out what was healthy and valuable, she went above and be yond to make sure it was a delicious meal, not just what fits the A variety of alternative meal options are offered to vegetarian students at Heartland Elementary. (Photo courtesy of Kim Stafford)
Principal Buddy Alger said it is common for kitchen work ers to adjust lunch options for kids with food allergies but what Stafford does is extraordinary.
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Stafford worked with a nutritionist to develop alternative meals similar to what the other kids were being served. Instead of limited menu options, vegetarian students now get the same variety as their peers. She replaces chicken with extra vegetables and makes a pot of meatless spaghetti sauce instead of just serv ing plain noodles. Many of the students can eat fish, so Stafford has become creative with fish sticks to create more options, such as fish wraps and fish sandwiches.
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Heartland Elementary Kitchen Manager Kim Stafford loves to make food that her students like to eat. So, when she start ed to identify a number of students who were turning down the school lunch entrees, she wanted to know why.
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The Disney Institute offers professional development courses for individuals and organizations to learn the Disney approach for customer experience. For 30 years Disney has shared its business excellence and practices that have been used by Disney parks and resorts. Many of these practices began with Walt Disney. Disney Institute offers online courses, and onsight courses at different Disney locations. Disney has an array of courses offered such as; collaborative advisory services, pri vate events, presentations for chambers of commerce, colleges/ universities, professional associations and conferences held at Disney destinations worldwide.
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“This is the first time that participants were able to access this course in-person in Utah. We’re so excited that Utah was one of our five city stops,” said Timo Gorner, Vice President of Disney Institute and National Geographic Live.
Disney Institute brought a One-Day Professional Development Course sponsored Business Solutions to West Jordan this summer. This was the first time in history for this class to be held in Utah. Disney creates magical beauty for millions of guests visit ing the Disney Parks each year. On July 26, they aimed to bring a little bit of that magic to West Jordan. The one-day course, held at Cinemark 24 Jordan Landing, shared business insights on the company’s time-tested practices. There were a total of 50 participants in the Utah RPDC, representing industries ranging from advertisement, banking, entertainment, security and more.
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“It has tripled,” she said. The plans for the current building began in 1978. Needs and wants changed over the years as different mayors and chief operating officers came and went.
Left: The council room will have a wall that can separate the dais from the larger room, so the room can be used for more than council/planning meetings. (Image /West Jordan City)
To start, the surrounding exterior wall of the building had no insulation. “We’re making it more energy efficient,” Astill said. “One of the challenges we’ve had is it’s too hot, or cold, we couldn’t balance the building.”
Funding for the model is “being paid from with one-time capital projects funds,” Steck said. “These funds are the cumulation of sav ings between budget and actual spending in the general fund. Each year, this savings is trans ferred to the capital projects fund to be used on special one-time projects.
“The interior design changed two full times, but the shell stayed the same,” Astill said. “We’re finding a lot of quality control is sues from when it was built. It’s a remodel but some of it ends up being a rebuild because of the issues we find when we open it up.”
The atrium will have a front desk to direct people to the right department. (Image /West Jordan City)
Fire codes will also be brought up to date. There was a place in the IT (Information Tech nology) Department where cords and wiring were clumped together and shoved into the ceiling. The emergency shut off was in the middle of the control room, which would have required someone to run through flames to shut the system down if there was an electrical fire. Departments will be in different locations with added security. Almost every office was accessible through a backdoor. Besides the main entrances to the departments, there will be key locks on interior doors. Security was a problem even for elected officials. They shared bathrooms with the pub lic during council meetings. “As an elected official they have a lot of unfortunate conversations,” Astill said. “When they take a break and go to the bathroom, those people want to confront them in awkward plac es.”
Above: The pillars will stay, but will be resurfaced and painted. (Image /West Jordan City)
Inside the West Jordan City Hall remodel
By Erin Dixon | e.dixon@mycityjournals.com
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This year the improvements are more than cosmetic.$10,030,000 has been set aside for the whole project. In the end, the whole cost may not be needed but should not cost the city any more.“The contractor (Bud Mahas Construc tion) that we chose is well known for no price increases and known for almost always being on schedule,” West Jordan Finance Director Danyce Steck said. “We don’t anticipate any change orders or increases, but there is some contingency there.”
“The building is 30 years old and there’s never been a major remodel,” Public Services Director Isaac Astill said. Marie Magers, public information man ager for the city, said when the building was completed in 1993, the suggested remodel date was in 20 years, or at least when the population doubled.
In 2021
West Jordan City Hall got a face-lift.
Some posts in large rooms appeared to support the structure, but underneath were only held by a few inches of concrete. “There’s two areas we’re putting additional bracing,” Astill said. “There’s a lot of quality control issues.”
Along with a major remodel of council chambers, there will be separate, key-access only rooms and bathrooms for the council. The whole remodel is expected to be done late spring of 2023. Until then, most employees are working from home, or the Public Works building. City Council meetings are held in the Justice Center, just south of City Hall. l
The main entrance area is getting a face lift. (Image/West Jordan City)
S outh Valley Services is an agency ded icated to educating and supporting vic tims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and verbal and emotional abuse. SVS aims to help all victims get the help they need and get out of the cycle of abuse. They help vic tims realize that there is help and they don’t need to stay in an abusive relationship or take verbal abuse from anybody.
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“It is important for survivors to talk about abuse. Unless abuse is talked about there is no way to address it and change it.
“It is so important to note that our youth experience physical violence and electron ic violence is almost equal. Both forms of violence have a dangerous impact on our youth. It is essential for us to have aware ness and policies that address electronic vi olence. We can ask ourselves, ‘do our poli cies allow us to intervene when the violence does not happen on school property?’ If so, how may we be missing an opportunity to help youth as they experience electronic vi olence? It takes schools and families work ing together to help children who experi ence online bullying. We can also see that over help of students who experience either bullying or teen dating violence, do not ask for help. We have to evaluate our behaviors and beliefs as adults if we want to cultivate a community where our youth know they can ask for help,” Gray said.
SVS holds a yearly Corporate Break fast and a Car Show to help raise funds as well as awareness about domestic violence. The Car Show is in memoriam of Taw nee Baird, a victim of Intimate Partner Vi olence homicide. Her father and his bike group put together a fundraising event to support Domestic Violence survivors, in cluding SVS. “They did this because they want to raise awareness for the survivors and reach out to the community about the depth of IPV,” Gray said. The event was held at the Black Sheep Grille in the morn ing, then moved over to Lone Star Saloon for a car show and tabling event. The par ticipants purchased tickets to win drawings for prizes. The money raised from the ticket sales was donated to SVS. For the Corporate Breakfast, SVS in vites corporations to an organized breakfast at the Viridian Event Center in West Jordan.
“Grants help SVS provide shelter, counseling, case management work and housing support. But one of the challeng es that we face is that the demand for our services is so much greater than what we receive from grant support. That’s why we kindly ask for support,” said Jeff Stott, SVS BoardSponsorsChair. include WCF Insurance, Wasatch I.T, Chris & Dawn Page, Donna Rentmeister Agency for American Family Insurance, Extra Space Storage, Hillcrest Bank, Microsoft, MK Nash Photography, Software Technology Group and Winde mere Real Estate. Extra Space Storage gen erously committed to match dollar for dol lar every personal donation raised for the event up to $10,000, doubling the impact of each “Fordonation.me,the big answer to why we do what we do is because community support in every aspect of our mission is essential. Survivors have a wide variety of personal needs, and when South Valley Services is able to work with corporations, community groups and other partnering organizations we are able to broaden our abilities to help survivors. I am a huge advocate for sur rounding our youth with healthy adults. Part of this is bringing awareness to the crises of our youth, so that we can learn how to nav igate and address these challenges. Sharing this information allows adults, schools and community groups to have the full picture of what our youth are experiencing, and to be able to address them in a healthy way. It is important that our youth has healthy relationships, and calling out bad examples when we see them in the media, is essen tial. That is why it is important for adults to educate ourselves on how to have healthy relationships so we can help our youth and break the chain of domestic violence,” Gray said.l
South Valley Services finding ways to help those in need
In a community it is important for people to talk about their abuse and know there are hundreds of people there to support them. It is a tough burden to carry the pain of abuse,” according to Education and Pre vention Director of South Valley Services, Mikaylee Gray. “By not talking about abuse is sad because it isolates you. If people open up about their issues of abuse and realize there are hundreds of people to support and uplift them. If we don’t talk about abuse there is no way to address it and change it. There are so many different aspects to confronting abuse. It helps to be with a community that can support those people of abuse and they can get help and know there are resources and SVS can help support them,’Gray said.
By Linda Steele | l.steele@mycityjournals.com
South Valley Services is an agency dedicated to educating and supporting victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and verbal and emotional abuse. (Courtesy SVS)
In addition to domestic violence, SVS also addresses teen dating. Participants are asked to complete an eleven question sur vey when they take one of their teen dating violence classes. One of the questions they ask is; “Can you identify a protective fac tor?”Out of 831, 427 identified a Domestic Violence Provider as a resource, indicating 48% of youth would reach out to organiza tions like SVS if they needed help.
Two other questions that are asked on the survey are; “What is an example of healthy relationship behavior,” and “What’s a resource you could contact for help?” Out of 831 responses, for those two questions combined, only 27 youth either left this question blank or provided an incorrect or no answer. This indicates that 98% of youth are able to determine healthy and unhealthy relationship behavior. 99% of youth can identify a resource for help.
For this year’s event there were around 15 corporate participants at the breakfast who invited employees and guests to attend at their table. SVS was able to introduce their new Executive Director, Lindsey Boyer, to the community and share about what SVS does for the community and how their do nations help to end family violence.
“I see these kids building actual rela tionships with people with disabilities, and it’s not a superficial friendship,” Sheppick said. “They are actually inviting my students to after school parties with them, so that my students get the opportunity to build real relationships that are lasting, which is what inclusion really is for—true friends, not just 7-3 friends.”
Avery Hiller made many friends while serving as CHPALS president last year. “These kids deserve a regular high school experience just like anybody else,” Hiller said. “We're able to include them in a way that they can't include themselves. We can bring them to games, we can hold social gatherings where they can make friends and then it helps them feel more normal.”
The Homecoming Parade is one of the social parts of the high school experience that were often not accessible to students with disabilities before special education teacher Jacqueline Sheppick started the CH PALS club six years ago. “I just really wanted my students to be able to feel like they got to experience high school like their peers,” she said. “PALS stands for positively affecting lives, and that's what these kids do. We meet at basket ball games and football games. We provide them with the opportunity to experience high school like the rest of the school does, with out their mom having to babysit.”
Students with disabilities arrive at a CHPALS ac tivity through a tunnel formed by their enthusiastic mainstream peers. (Jet Burnham/City Journals)
“She doesn't hang out a lot with friends just because she's not a typical child that communicates and socializes the same,” Hanson said. “Somebody always has to be with her, so it was nice to be able to have her somewhere where we could trust the people and feel comfortable having them with her. She just loved being with them, and hang ing out with them, and she always was super happy when she'd come home.”
year’s Homecoming Parade. (Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Sheppick.)
| j.burnham@mycityjournals.comCHPALSclubmembersatlast
By Jet Burnham
Hiller graduated in June and is studying at SUU to become a special education teacher. This year’s CHPALS president, Karley Bates, also plans to become a special educa tion teacher.“Iabsolutely love special education/ special needs kids,” she said. “They have the biggest light, and are the happiest people you’ll ever be around, no matter their cir cumstances.” She is excited for this year’s club activ ities.In addition to school and club activi ties, club members also participate in annu al collaborative events such as the Special Education Prom (which CHHS hosted for the district last year) and Special Olympics (in which CHHS took 2nd place in state last year.)Sheppick said inclusivity is part of CH HS’s school culture. Other school clubs in vite the CHPALS to their activities and often ask Sheppick how they can help her students be more involved at the school. This is a huge change from the culture six years ago, when she first came to CHHS and found that special education students weren’t even attending mainstream classes.
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Melanie Hanson said if it were not for CHPALS, she would have had to bring her daughter to school events and sit with her, but only if she could make other arrange ments for her younger children.
One of the most enthusiastic clubs partic ipating in Copper Hills High School’s Homecoming Parade on Sept. 8 will be the Copper Hills Positively Affecting Lives club. Club members include students with vari ous disabilities and their mainstream peers, many of whom are peer tutors. They will be dressed for this year’s theme, “European Tour,” to walk in the parade together.
A true high school experience is available to all CHHS students
“Having a group that can all go together, that as a parent, you can trust that they're going to be watched out for while they can still en joy the things that these neurotypical main stream children within the school are experi encing—you can't put a price on it. They're getting a normal high school experience along with their peers, which they wouldn't have if there wasn't this program.” l
CHPALS is a popular club—some years there are up to 200 kids—but most ac tivities have about 80 kids show up, 30 of which are Sheppick’s students. Sheppick said CHPALS has been bene ficial for all students. Peers model appropri ate social skills for her students, and her stu dents teach their peers how to appropriately and respectfully treat people with disabil ities. All the students become comfortable with people who are different from them and learn to make new friends.
“There wasn't any inclusion or camara derie or unity,” she said. “It was just those kids and then the rest of school.” She said CHHS has become something special.“People told me when I became a spe cial ed teacher that inclusion is a dream,” she said. “Honestly, it's happening here at Copper Hills. The dream is a reality and it's amazing. Everyone knows them, everyone looks out for them, everyone cares about them, and they have so many friends that are there to support them. There’s just some thing special about Copper Hills and their inclusivity is amazing.”
Stacy Nay said CHPALS was a great opportunity for her neurodiverse son, Alex. During his senior year, he served as the co-president alongside the peer student president, helping with club activities. Nay said it was a leadership opportunity that he wouldn’t have had otherwise. “This was something so unique, that fit him, and he was able to really excel in those skills that he normally wouldn't have,” she said. She said when she first learned about the CHPALS club, she broke down and cried. “Because this is an incredible oppor tunity for my son and his peers,” she said.
CHPALS club members dressed up in feather boas for last year’s Hollywood-themed Homecoming Parade. (Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Sheppick.)
Anthony Condas has made many great memories at the lunches with his children over the years and has realized what an impact it has on them.“One time I was running a little late and my son was bawling because I wasn't here,” he said. “So I know it means a lot to him, even though it doesn't seem like it's that much, but it does, it means a lot to be there.”
“I just want to help out, give back, be informed and let my children see that I care about their success,” he said. “Hopefully, they will remember what it was like when their dad cared enough to invest in their education, not only at home but in the community.”
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“There are opportunities to be able to tai lor-make an individualized volunteer opportu nity for people that work,” Pack said. “They can do things at night, it doesn't necessarily need to be at the school during school hours.”
Antonio Istanez said attending the lunch es sends a message to his young daughter.
Even as a single dad, Pack has been able to prioritize time to volunteer in his three chil dren’s schools (while also serving on West Jor dan’s City Council and Planning Commission, several nonprofit boards, and also teaching college courses and coaching the CHHS tennis team.)He said another barrier that keeps men from being involved in the PTA is that they often feel that because the moms are already doing it, they aren’t needed and their help wouldn’t make much of a difference.
“For me, my child is first and I want her to know that and to see that I can take my time to share a meal and sit with her,” he said. The kids are thrilled to have their dads come, so Preston Dahlgren makes sure he at tends every time. “It's important to them, and anything that’s important to them is going to be a priori ty for me,” Dahlgren said.
If you give a dad a doughnut …it will benefit his kids
Hansen has worked with only a few men on PTA/PTSA boards over the years. She said they bring a different perspective to discus sions and tend to serve in positions in which they have experience, such as community rela tions or finance.
If you give a dad a doughnut, he’ll prob ably make time to eat it with his kids at their school, and if he spends time at their school, he will understand more about his kids, and his kids will understand how their dad feels about them and about their education. When fathers are involved in their child’s school, it has a domino“Thereeffect.are numerous statistics on how society is bettered when men are involved in the community and at home, because both tie in together and dramatically increase students’ test scores, and dramatically lower truancy lev els,” said David Pack, who has been actively involved in his children’s schools’ PTA orga nizations.Many elementary school PTA boards plan activities specifically to encourage fathers to be involved at their child’s school. Dads & Donuts, Parents & Pastries and Books & Breakfast events invite fathers to eat a treat and spend time with their child at school, where they can meet their children’s friends and teachers.Riverside Elementary in West Jordan be gan hosting Dads Make a Difference Lunches a few years ago when the PTA board was look ing for ways to include dads, who usually can’t volunteer during the day. “We just felt like dads don’t have too many opportunities to feel included in PTA and the school,” PTA member Charlene Tello said. Dads come to the school during their child’s lunch time. They eat lunch with their child and then play with them during recess.
“We have a great turnout—it's almost a little overwhelming for the front office, which is a good thing, which is what we want,” River side Elementary Principal Dr. Mike Trimmell said.
The lunches are scheduled months in ad vance to allow dads to schedule time off work. The next Dads Make a Difference Lunch is scheduled for Nov. 10. Both kids and dads look forward to the lunches and many dads bring restaurant take out meals to make it even more special.
Hougaard is now one of three men on the State PTA Board. He is the Student Lead er Commissioner, responsible for events such as the State Battle of the Bands competition, PTSA Day at the Capitol and the Student Lead ershipTheConference.StateBoard has a Male Engagement Committee to help local boards in their efforts to recruit more fathers. Dads on Patrol Having more men at schools during school hours makes many kids and parents feel safer. Some elementary schools utilize volun teer dads through the Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) program. Dads, grandfathers and other father-figures sign up to help at the school for one day. They provide extra secu rity by patrolling the school grounds and extra fun by helping in their child’s classroom. The program website claims the program enhances campus safety, reduces bullying and provides positive male role models for kids. Most of the local Watch D.O.G.S. pro grams have fizzled out in the last few years because of COVID-19 restrictions on class room volunteers. Falcon Ridge Elementary in West Jordan was down to only two volunteer dads last year, but the administration plans to reintroduce the program this year and get more dads back into the school. l
CHHS PTSA board member Andrea Hansen said the dynamic fathers bring to school events is needed and appreciated. She said the majority of parent volunteers for the end-of-the-year all-night senior party are fa thers and they make sure everyone has a fun and safe“That'stime.been really a good thing for kids to see their dads supporting them,” Hansen said. “I think it's really important for the kids to know that their dad cares about them and wants to be involved, and cares how they do in school and what's going on at their school.”
Pack has often been the only man at PTA/ PTSA meetings and events. He said there is a misconception that meetings must be held during the day, when many are at work, but he said it doesn’t have to be that way.
It took some time for Todd Hougaard to find a PTA position that fit his skills and inter ests. He first volunteered to help at a Mother and Sons activity so the PTA moms could en joy the event with their sons. Then he served as PTA president at Jordan Ridge Elementary in South Jordan. “I think a lot of men don't think there's a position that they feel comfortable in, but they can find something that works,” Hougaard said. “I don't really like the day-to-day organi zation of being president, but I saw the Student Leadership Committee and said, ‘Hey, that's where I want to be, I want to be with the kids’ and so that's where I've been ever since.”
Dads Make a Difference Supporting school activities is just one way dads are making a difference in their child’s lives. Men also make a difference by volunteering in the PTA. Pack has served as either president or president elect at his children’s elementary, middle and high schools for the past 15 years straight. He is currently the PTSA president at Copper Hills High School.
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Preston Dahlgren enjoys lunch with his daughter, Lilly. (Jet Burnham/City Journals)
j.burnham@mycityjournals.comAnthonyCondasplayswithhis son at a Dads Make a Difference Lunch held at Riverside Elementary in May. (Jet Burnham/City Journals)
John Lummus, who attended both lunch es last year with his daughter, said that even though it might be difficult for dads to make arrangements to attend, it is worth the effort to make their child feel special. “Dads can find the time,” Lummus said. “They just need to make sure they prioritize.”
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Bott is the music director and conductor of the West Jordan Symphony, an organization that started in 1984 and continues to attract music lovers, whether that’s a musician or an audienceWithmember.15years of conducting experience, Bott started as the assistant conductor in 2019 with the symphony and took on the role of con ductor in January 2021.
“We’re always open to having people contact us about positions,” he said. “There’s no barriers to participating. Anyone who can play at about an advanced high school level, we want to give them an opportunity to play.”
As an amateur group, the West Jordan Symphony’s musicians don’t get paid to per form, but it’s a chance for them to share their love of art and music with friends, family and community members. Many of the players are people who performed in high school who don’t get a lot of opportunities to play else where.“They’re a very dedicated group, I don’t want to say surprisingly so, but I was really impressed when I came in,” Bott said. “I per sonally find music therapeutic and there’s defi nitely nothing wrong with recorded music but I feel like there’s a different energy in a live performance. It’s almost like going to a sports event, players can make mistakes and things can go wrong. There’s always an energy in try ing to get it right.” Bott believes music connects generations and he hopes residents attend concerts, make a donation to their local arts groups and support the musicians in their families. For more infor mation, visit WestJordanSymphony.org.
“I just feel it’s so important to have that cultural identity and that shared experience in this area. Music is somewhere you can learn about different cultures and histories,” he said. “I’m of the opinion that any arts organization is important. It’s important for people to expe rience these musical artifacts from history.” l
The symphony performs several times a year at the Viridian Events Center (8030 S. 1825 West), including the popular “Messiah” sing-along in December. The group’s next con cert is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. with Halloween music for the holiday.
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More than three dozen musicians participate in the West Jordan Symphony, bringing live music to the community under the direction of Robert Bott. (Courtesy of Eric J. Bowden.)
The Halloween Pops concert will feature music from “Harry Potter,” “Phantom of the Opera” and Disney+'s “Loki.” “It should really be a fun concert. This is the kind of stuff that kids really enjoy hearing. It’s not going to be quite as serious as our other concerts.”
“I feel it’s really important for people to understand our cultural heritage,” Bott said. “It was like a religious experience to connect back and to think about [Handel’s Messiah] having such a cultural significance today.”
A Salt Lake City native, Bott earned de grees in composition and instrumental con ducting from the University of Utah and a DMA in orchestral conducting from the Uni versity of North Texas. He enjoys presenting work from new or underrepresented compos ers, giving musicians and fans something in teresting and creative.
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West Jordan Symphony in tune with the community
When Robert Bott had the chance to visit George Handel’s grave in Westminster Abbey, he marveled that the composer’s works from the 1700s were still popular and relevant today. Bott said classical music is a way to connect to history where we can be listening to something our ancestors enjoyed hundreds of years ago.
The West Jordan Symphony has, on av erage, 40 musicians, ranging from high school students to a musician in her 90s. Bott is al ways on the lookout for talented players and invites anyone with experience to stop in at one of the Saturday morning rehearsals.
“Our bid board has become like an instore eBay for our local collectors,” said West Valley City’s Finders Keepers owner Brian Dong. “We have a little bit of everything come in on that board.” His bid board acts as an auction. A card collector can bring any piece of memorabilia he would like to sell. After paying a small fee it is placed for inspection on the public bid board. When the time period for selling is up the prod uct is sold to the highest bidder.
“The card shows have everything from toys, sports cards, and collectible coins,” sports collector Kelly Pack said. “In the mall we get shoppers and they eat this stuff up. My son even comes with silver, gold and currency. I have been doing this for seven years.” In this area, collectors look for specific types of “Thecards.Jazz are not as popular as you might think,” Dong said. “I get fans that want LeBron (James) or Steph Curry. Michael Jordan sells.” “There is such a variety of stuff available. I think Jordan toilet paper would sell. I have seen collectors that only want BYU players. At the tables, you try to watch the trends and see who is Athot.”the onset of COVID, the collectible industry boomed. eBay and other sites saw an increase in sales and purchases of cards.
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“I think it has slowed down a bit. We have been open for about two years. We sell Funko Pops, some jerseys, superhero toys and Trans formers have been a big seller for me,” Dong said.
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Stores seek new ways to sell sports memorabilia
The 42nd annual National Sports Collec tors Convention was held in Atlantic City July 25-31. It boasted over 90,000 attendees and will be held in Chicago in 2023. Bo Jackson, Rickey Henderson and Dale Murphy were some of the hundreds of athletes who spent time in the autograph pavilion at the conven tion. A VIP pass could be purchased for $210 and the ticket included entrance to the entire week of the convention and autograph priority. This year Mac Jones’ Prizm 1 of 1 card sold for $100,000. “We have had autograph tables before,” Pack said. “Vernon Law and Harmon Kille brew spent time at one of our shows.” l The in-store eBay-like bid board at Finders Keepers in West Valley is a great place to buy and sell your sports memorabilia. (Greg James/City Journals)
“We have had some high-end cards placed up for bid. Right now, we have a complete col lection of boxed cards available. I usually have quite a few from my collection available,” DongThesaid.idea for the auction-style board came as a way to avoid shipping costs and the dis honesty of some sellers on the national sites. The auction is not the only way he has looked to generate card sales. He also hosts a once-a-month trade night. “The shop is open and we encourage nothing but trading, no selling. We have had graded cards and even Pokémon traders on those nights,” Dong said. Card shows are another way to find or sell your precious collection. Collectors get togeth er and buy and sell their favorite cards in large groups held at malls and other meeting rooms across the valley. They have developed a Face book page to help them advertise for each event. In August there were two such shows, one at the Valley Fair Mall (Aug. 20) and at the Mountain America Expo Center (Aug. 6).
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The sports collectible market has had its ups and downs over the last few years. Local collectors have turned to alternative ways to buy, sell and trade cards.
Massif Handball SLC is hosting the Uintah Cup in September. Several teams from around the country will face off in the first-time event. (Photo courtesy of Massif Handball SLC)
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Team handball is a game that is a mixture of soccer and lacrosse. And, like the name states, it’s a team sport with two teams of seven players each (including the goalie) attempting to pass the ball using their hands and shoot it into the opposing team's net. The team that scores the most goals wins. And for team handball enthusiasts, Mas sif Handball SLC is organizing a tournament in Salt Lake City this month.
“I was attending college at Auburn and a friend of mine introduced me to the game,” Massif Handball SLC member Patrick Halla day said. “It turns out that my first time was a tryout for the U.S. Olympic team. I wasn’t that good, but I learned how to play and now I really enjoy it.”
A small group of players played in the USA Team Handball Open National Champi onships in May. The local players combined with a team in Los Angeles to be able to par ticipate.“Now we want to represent Utah. We would like everybody to get to know this sport. We are hosting a small tournament next month with a few teams,” Broadhead said. The Uintah Cup is scheduled for Sept. 24-25 at the Utah Soccer Arena, 1475 S. 700 West. There will be men's and women's divi sions. The Air Force Academy and a team from Denver will take part in the men's division. The women's division includes a Los Ange les-based team and a team from San Francisco is scheduled to compete. “It will be held on Saturday and Sunday,” Rammi said. “People see this game in the Olympics and they come out and join with us. It is growing in this area.” “Some of my friends are from different countries. It is a new game here, but in other countries, they teach it in schools. The game is very popular in Europe. That is why they al ways win. There is also beach handball. It has different rules,” Broadhead said. Luke Nguyen, originally from Vietnam but graduated from Kearns High School, is a member of the U.S. men’s beach team. He started playing team handball when he was 12 years old. After he moved to Utah when he was 16 he was a part of the U.S. Youth National Team. He started playing beach team handball in 2015. He was the most valuable goalkeeper in 2016 and was a coach of the 2019 Pan Am Games team. He still lives in Salt Lake City. Hannah Ross from Pocatello, Idaho is also a member of the women’s beach national team. She has participated with the Salt Lake City club at times. Team USA is working to establish a col lege national championship and the U.S. Na tional team recently qualified to participate in the next World Cup. “This is a game that can help you devel op new skills and improve your athleticism. It can help you improve your abilities in other sports,” Rammi said. “This club is a family affair. They all bring their kids and we have lots just learning to play,” Halladay said. For more information visit the team's Facebook page Massif Handball SLC. l
“I am from Guatemala and I played for the National team there for about 12 years,” Sofia Broadhead said. “When I came to Utah in 2016 I started looking for a club. The sport is growing in Central America, Brazil, and even here in this country.” “I started playing in Brazil when I was 12 years old,” one of the club organizers Andre Rammi said. “Our practices are open, anyone can come and join. We want people to under stand the game. We have several that have nev er played before.”
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The Salt Lake handball club consists of about 30 members. They practice three or four times a month and have begun traveling to play in tournaments.
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Just south of Salt Lake Community College, Utah’s leading builder of active adult communities has begun construction of their newest development. Leisure Villas, known for their lifestyle-oriented neighborhoods, has broken ground on what is promising to be one of their more premiere locations.
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Hearthstone Villas, located at 9550 S. 3400 W. has just opened its first building for sale. While supply and labor shortages threaten to slow construction, the builder is committed to doing all in their power to open four new homes for sale each month. This long-anticipated community will soon have its community clubhouse under construction also, with its accompanying amenities, like a pool, theater, exercise room, billiards, library, community gathering areas. This community is also planning on installing two pickleball courts and some horseshoe pits in the next phase of construction. Needless to say, there will be plenty to do, and great people to do it with. If you would like more information about this new community, you can speak with a representative by visiting the sales office on site, or by calling: 801-653-1291. 84108
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Additionally, city officials expect to hear back from the TRCC Advisory Board this fall on a nearly $1 million request they sub mitted specifically for the construction of 10 pickleball courts throughout the city. If that request is also approved – and the city puts in its match – they will have close to $5 million toward their goal of generating $16.5 million. City Council Vice Chair Meredith Hark er is the council’s liaison to the city’s volun teer Parks and Recreation Committee.
In anticipation of gaining ownership of Taylorsville Park, the city has already put in for, and been granted, $1.5 million from the TRCC fund. With their $1.5 million city match, Taylorsville already has $3 million to work with to begin making improvements.
“The cost estimates for the improve ments we are considering would be about $7.5 million at Taylorsville Park and $9 mil lion at Tank Park,” Overson said. “That’s if we are able to do everything. But if we can’t get that much funding, we may have to cut a few things.”Themost reliable “money spigot” for projects like this has been Salt Lake County “track” funding. “Track” is actually TRCC or Tourism, Recreation, Cultural and Con vention (Facilities). This is money generated through restaurants, rental cars, hotels and other visitor amenities across the county. The catch on TRCC funding is, any grant bestowed by its Advisory Board must be matched with city funding.
“If we get that (nearly $2 million) fund ing, it would cover everything – the courts, fences around them, sidewalks, benches and lighting for night play,” she added.
As for the rest of Taylorsville Park, city officials say it will have a completely new look. Current amenities like the pavilion and playground equipment will be replaced and likely relocated. Parking is expected to be reconfigured so it is no longer directly along Redwood Road. Final decisions on whether basketball courts and volleyball areas will re turn have not yet been made.
Skateboard enthusiasts can breathe easy. One way or another, City Manager John Tay lor says city officials are committed to either improving the existing skateboard park or building a new one.
As for finding the additional roughly $11.5 million the city needs to do everything it wants at both sites, Overson promises their priority remains locating more outside fund ing. “We will go after whatever grants we can find,” she added. “There are grant (opportuni ties) everywhere; we just have to find them.”
“They have been working on the mas ter plans to improve both sites for quite a while now – but they are not quite ready to be released (for the public to see),” White explained. “They still need a couple of small changes. But the drafts should be ready for release before the end of the year.” What we won’t see in the remainder of 2022 are backhoes and other work equipment at either site. However, next spring and sum mer should bring lots of flying dirt at both locations. l
weathered old sign, because Salt Lake County no longer owns any portion of the park at 4700 S. Redwood Road. (Carl Fauver/City Journals)
This 10.5-acre rainwater retention basin is now owned by Taylorsville, after Salt Lake County deeded the area to the city at the same time the county relinquished its half of Taylorsville Park. (Carl Fauver/City Journals)
“Who knows if we will get the full grant request. We will build as many pickleball courts as we get funding for,” Harker said. “The first four would go in Taylorsville Park, near the senior center. If we get funding for four more, we would include those at Tank Park. At this point, we are talking about the final two being built at Vista Park (5150 S. 1950HarkerWest).”
But if push comes to shove, and grant funding won’t cover everything, might the city consider a tax increase to cover park im provements? “I can see robust discussion about that,” the mayor concluded. “We will need more feedback from residents. But again, every single survey we have conducted has shown parks and open space to be a very high pri ority.”One final note: the interlocal cooperative agreement approved by the Taylorsville City Council to accept Salt Lake County’s portion of Taylorsville Park also included a second site being given to the city by the county. A 10.5-acre parcel called the Skyview Retention Basin Park (6425 S. 4015 West) is a large un developed area on the Taylorsville-West Jor dan border designed to capture water during extreme rains. However, city officials all agree, the name “park” is not appropriate for the site. They have no plans to add any amenities to the location. It will continue to serve simply as an open area to catch water and help pre vent flooding in the adjacent neighborhoods.
clarified that pickleball courts alone do not cost $200,000 each to construct.
But, after nearly a year of negotiat ing and red tape navigating, that all finally changed last month, when city council mem bers unanimously approved something called an “interlocal cooperation agreement” to accept ownership of the county’s half of the park – for free. “No money changed hands,” Overson added. “And now that we have complete con trol of the park, we can move forward making improvements.”Murray-based G. Brown: Design, INC was hired by the city months ago to come up with improvement plans and cost estimates not only for a complete Taylorsville Park facelift, but also for the creation of a brandnew park that would be 5 acres larger than the Redwood Road site. The combined cost estimate for improving Taylorsville Park and developing from scratch the site still being re ferred to as “Tank Park” (16 acres adjacent to the two water tanks on the northwest corner of 3200 W. 6200 South) is $16.5 million.
For ages, the 11 acres that make up Tay lorsville Park (4700 S. Redwood Road) has been owned, roughly 50/50, by the city and by Salt Lake County. The two governmen tal entities did not “co-own” the entire park. They each owned specific sections of it.
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Officials considering $16.5 million price tag to overhaul one city park and create a new one from scratch
“The skatepark is a definite priority; people want to see that element there,” Tay lor said. “We are now evaluating options to determine what makes the most sense – mak ing improvements to our current skatepark or building a new one.”
As for Taylorsville and Tank Parks, City Engineer Ben White says the designs they now have in hand from G. Brown: Design, INC will likely be made public in a month or two.
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Meantime, on the Tank Park drawing board – in addition to the four pickleball courts being discussed – preliminary plans call for playground equipment, a bicycle path, an enclosed dog park and improvements to create a winter sledding area, thanks to the natural slope on a large portion of the site.
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No, coronavirus is not “responsible” for the $16.5 million parks improvement plan Taylorsville City officials are now mull ing over. But Mayor Kristie Overson says the virus and its seemingly endless mutations definitely factor into what they would like to do. “I would say COVID has accelerated our parks planning,” Overson said. “(The virus) seemed to show all of us the importance of outdoor recreation opportunities. Our polls (of city residents) show they want parks to be a higher priority. But also, we have known for years Taylorsville Park needs some love. And now we can move forward.”
Facing growing demand, geographical ly situated in the middle of other states also with relatively low capacity, all of which are seeing higher demand than in the past, Utah might just be the trickiest place to get cement in the United States right now, according to one industry expert.
The process to get concrete for founda tions, driveways, pools, decks, walls, roads and other infrastructure starts with giant manufacturing plants that quarry, grind and cook limestone to form a rock-like substance called clinker. The clinker is mixed with gypsum and ground to a fine powder called cement.
Challenge 1: Utah doesn’t make that much cement to begin with. In addition to Ash Grove and Holcim in Utah, there is one cement manufacturing facility in Nevada, one in New Mexico, one in Wyoming, and three on the eastern side of Colorado. Idaho has no cement production capacity.According to industry experts, cement capacity and production in Utah is already traditionally low as it is only home to two cement plants producing 2 metric tons (Cal ifornia, for example, has the capacity to pro duce over 13 metric tons per year).
Left: Holcim’s Devil’s Slide cement plant near Ogden. (Google images) Right: Installers wain in line at 7 a.m. for a chance to get concrete. (Photo contributed)
As Richard Thorn, president and CEO of Associated General Contractors of Utah, says, “Cement is the flour needed to bake the cake.” Without cement, there is no concrete. Utah is home to two cement manufac turing plants that produce a total combined capacity of two metric tons per year.
Ash Grove, in Leamington, Utah, is owned by public company CRH, an interna tional building materials group. Holcim’s Devil’s Slide plant near Og den is owned by publicly-traded Switzer land-based conglomerate Holcim.
According to Patrick Cleary, vice president of Cement Sales at Holcim, when Covid delays started ransacking Europe and Asia, Holcim started to manage inventory but then saw a boom in construction instead. Data shows a steady increase in Utah cement consumption over the last 10 years, but the most rapid growth peaked in 2020, at a time when experts thought that consump tion would weaken because of the pandemic.
Challenge 2: Reserves were already at the low end of capacity, and demand didn’t slow. During the winter, cement manufactur ers normally face a lull and use that time to shut down production for a month to perform routine maintenance. Once maintenance is complete, and the lull continues, they start to build reserves. In Utah, a mild winter and a housing boom raised demand, and the reserves were drawn down instead of being replenished.
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There may be some relief in the future, says Ed Sullivan, chief economist at the Portland Cement Association, if residential construction demand decreases as interest rates go up. Challenge 3: Utah can’t rely on im ports to build reserves. Depleted reserves and unprecedented demand in an already low-capacity environ ment saw manufacturers looking elsewhere to meet customer needs. Sullivan reports that total maritime imports to the entire U.S. West Coast from Asia in 2021 reached 5.73 metric tons, a staggering 54% increase from 3.71 metric tons in 2019. An independent ready-mix company in Salt Lake City that has gotten cement from Ash Grove since the early 1990s said a few years ago, Ash Grove switched their supply from cement made at the Ash Grove plant to cement imported by Ash Grove from Viet nam.
Together, Ash Grove and Holcim sell about 80% of their cement to the three main ready-mix concrete suppliers in Utah: pri vately owned Clyde Companies’ Geneva Rock and Sunroc; Staker Parson (which happens to be owned by CRH); and public company Summit’s Altaview Concrete. Receiving the remaining 20% of ce ment are the small handful of independent ly owned ready-mix companies spread throughoutThrownUtah.into the amalgamation of high demand and supply chain issues, a sequence of events that started in 2019 have led the Utah cement market to its shortages today.
Cement plants are tremendous—as long as a 40-story building laying on its side— and include quarry, mills and kilns. Cement production is limited by the amount of clin ker that has been made. Once ground, the cement powder is so fine that one pound of cement contains 150 billion grains. It is con sidered gold in the ready-mix industry. Cement powder is stored in silos, rail cars or tube-like portable containers called guppies. It is sold and transported directly to ready-mix companies who store it in their own silos and rail cars. When a customer places an order with a ready-mixer, say for the foundation of a house, the cement powder is combined with water to form a paste. The paste is then mixed with aggregates like sand, gravel, or crushed stone, and the end product is concrete. Once the concrete is mixed, it is perishable and has to be used right away.
By Deb Hafner | d.hafner@mycityjournals.com
The curious case of concrete: How complications exacerbated Utah’s already dire concrete shortage
When Peter and Allyson Fage purchased land in 2021, they were told it would take one year from excavating the founda tion to hanging ornaments on a Christmas tree in their dream home. The Fages hired an architect, approved home plans, and were on site when the first shovel of dirt was removed. But, when ex cavation was finished, the Fages were told there was no concrete available to pour their foundation. After waiting for updates and spending another Christmas in their rental house, the Fages decided to postpone con struction on their home until 2023. Of course, the Fages aren’t alone. Res idential growth accounts for almost half of all concrete consumption in Utah, and while demand continues to rise, the National Asso ciation of Homebuilders cites that in 2021, more than 90% of builders reported delays and materials Stephanieshortages.Hudson, a real estate agent with Realty One Group Distinction, said many people who were going to build have decided to build later and rent or purchase interim homes so their project doesn’t drag on for two years. During the beginning of COVID in 2019, plants around the world started clos ing and laying off employees. From the emergence of COVID in 2019 up to March 2020 when the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic, more than 50,000 workers in the construction industry were laid off in Hong Kong because of a shortage of cement from COVID-related production suspensions across China. Europe faced sim ilar layoffs and Domestically,slowdowns.cement manufacturers were watching from afar as labor shortages spread across Europe and Asia, and anticipat ed similar nosedives in the US. Accordingly, they started to manage inventory down, ex pecting a recession but instead getting a sur prise twist with an unprecedented boom in demand that spread across the country. The concrete shortage that the Fages faced is being felt around the country, as demand has increased and COVID-related supply chain disruptions abound. But, in Utah, a series of additional un fortunate challenges converged giving rise to a cataclysmic concrete shortage unlike any other in the nation. Are we talking about cement or con crete?
A foundation sits waiting for concrete. (Deb Hafner/City Journals)
Even big infrastructure projects in the state were put on allocation. John Gleason, UDOT spokesperson, says the big projects that require concrete, the I-80 and I-215 Renewed project, the West Davis Corridor project, and the U.S. Route 89 reconstruction in Davis County, are being affected by the cement shortage.
Challenge 6: On top of everything else, broken equipment and maintenance issues cause major setbacks.
Thorn is optimistic that Utah does not have any truck driver shortages, and indeed the Utah unemployment rate is at 1.9%, one of the lowest in the country. But that doesn’t mean the state doesn’t feel the squeeze from national truck driver shortages, labor shortages and related shipping issues.
In addition, regular maintenance required Ash Grove to rebrick one of the kilns, grinding production to a full stop. Ash Grove is just now ramping back up, and has told ready mixers they are going to have production to 65% by midsummer. (At the time of publication, representatives from Ash Grove hadn’t returned phone calls or emails for comments.)Holcim’s Devil’s Slide plant didn’t have any issues with maintenance, but its Colorado plant, from which it relies on reserves, had some unplanned outages, and combined with the truck driver shortage, it was a little more difficult to ship plant-to-plant.
Ready-mixers love fly ash as a cement extender because it can be used to replace a significant percentage of cement in concrete, decreasing costs and using less cement. Anytime a ready-mixer can replace some cement with fly ash, they do. However, operation of one of the largest coal-fired power plants and fly ash suppliers in the Southwest ended in November 2019, when Salt River Project permanently shut down the Navajo Generating Station located on the Navajo Nation just east of Page, Arizona. The fly ash supply was cut off for Utah and surround ing states and ready-mixers had to increase cement in their concrete mixture. Further impact on fly ash came when the EPA consid ered classifying it as a hazardous material instead of byprod uct, affecting buyer confidence, for who wants a hazardous material in their driveway or pool?
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As far as equipment goes, in the current climate, when something breaks or requires maintenance, the supply chain and labor shortage disruptions once again burden the cement industry, as parts, shipping of parts, and service on those parts is hindered.
Challenge 7: Allocations don’t help the small readymix companies. For independent concrete installers, it’s increasingly hard to get concrete, with no end to the shortage in sight.
“I ordered concrete for a project two weeks ago,” says one installer who did not want to be named, partly in fear of up setting suppliers, “and they allocated 60% of what I ordered, and I am still waiting to get that.”
Supply chain shortages and disruptions have been framed as part of the disturbance caused by the pandemic, with the federal government hinting that supply chains will go back to normal when COVID goes away, but that has not been the case, and the rebuilding of supply chains is slow going.Facing an unprecedented demand with already low re serves, limited access to substitute materials, equipment fail ure and maintenance issues, global supply chain and labor shortages, problems with imports, and Utah’s geographic location in a cement desert, coalesced, not to form a perfect batch of soupy gray concrete, but instead a cement calamity, from which Utah may not emerge until 2023. l
For Holcim, truck driver shortages have impacted the ability to transport cement domestically, according to Cleary, making borrowing reserves from other Holcim plants throughout the U.S. take a little longer.
Most domestic cement manufacturers rely on imported powder to build reserves or to sell to smaller ready-mixers, saving the domestic powder for continuity for their larger customers.According to Sullivan, about 85% of U.S. cement im ports are from six countries: Canada and Mexico account for 40%; China and South Korea around 20%; and the remain ing 40% comes from Greece and Turkey. To further complicate depleting domestic cement re serves, Turkish cement exports are being disrupted by the war inAsUkraine.cement
Challenge 4: Nor can it rely on neighbors to help out.
Holcim transitioned 100% production to a product that adds additional limestone to extend the powder portion of cement, and they are beginning to rollout their “eco planet product,” a natural pozzolan (not fly ash) that extends clinker (and comes with the added benefit of 30% reduction in CO2 emissions).“Expanding what we have and reducing our footprint at the same time is a double positive for us,” Cleary said.
In addition to foreign imports, cement manufacturers purchase powder domestically from other states. But when demand skyrocketed, states that would regularly share pow der across borders halted exports. A cement producer in Arizona reported they are selling to that state’s market only, and that they and their competi tors are similarly sold out and can’t meet their own state’s demands. If Utah had previously been receiving cement from Arizona, that channel is now cut off.
In some instances, by the time installers ordered from ready-mix companies, they were getting 250 square feet of concrete at a time, spread out over weeks, when they were used to getting over 1,000 square feet within a day.
When fly ash is mixed into concrete, the concrete be comes more dense and remains stronger over time. In some instances, adding fly ash is required by engineers on large infrastructure projects, like bridges.
Paul Phillips, the owner of Ready Made Concrete, said, “I am the little guy in all of this, but it has been a battle for even the big corporations. We are all approaching the cement shortage differently during these challenging times, and it is a learning experience for us, and a way to become a bet ter company. Some companies had to lay people off and we didn’t, and as a small company we were able to show our appreciation to our employees.” But, he added, “It took a catastrophic event to realize we rely on a single source, and now we see how vulnerable we are.”
As channels to procure fly ash shut down, Clyde Com panies (the owner of Geneva Rock and Sunroc) established Bridgesource in 2020, a fly ash company that has exclusive rights to ash from the Jim Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming. Almost overnight in Ogden, according to residents who jokingly thought aliens had landed, two giant spheres, each 120-foot-tall fly ash silos, appeared. And though Geneva Rock and Sunroc would seem to be the natural beneficiaries of the pozzolan, Bridgesource opened distribution channels to other ready-mix companies, and fly ash sources came back online.The pause in pozzolan availability, however, did not help an already drastic situation.
After a while, UDOT could wait no longer, and received approval to purchase cement from manufacturers in Iowa and South Dakota. There is an end in sight, but maybe hold off on that pool.
(Many will recall recent news cycles about the ships sitting in California ports with no one to unload them.)
The nail in the coffin for the Utah cement market was equipment issues at the Ash Grove plant. A gear box in its clinker mill was sent out for maintenance, and a temporary replacement installed, and that part quickly malfunctioned. Ash Grove had the original part returned before it was re paired, and removed the replacement part, but in the mean time cement production was offline.
“Overall, we've dealt with challenges for the past sev eral years like many industries, and we've come through it with minimal delays. This is a new challenge, and we have to make sure we schedule activities around availability to make sure we can keep our projects moving.”
imports increased to meet domestic demand, a drastic rise in shipping rates, the global labor shortage, and a national truck driver shortage are making it difficult to get the imported powder to Utah from ports on the West Coast.
Gleason said that UDOT employees have had to be flexible and ready to work when materials are finally avail able. Sometimes that means doing work during times they wouldn’t normally work. For example, early in June, the crews had to start laying concrete on the U.S. 89 project during the morning commute, work that would normally take place at night or early morning.
The largest cement producer across the U.S. and Mex ico is Cemex, a Mexican multinational building materials company. Cemex has 15 plants located in the U.S. West. To address shortages in the U.S., it has reopened two cement plants in northern Mexico that were previously shuttered. However, the two newly reopened plants will not be opera tional until the fall.
With reserves and production issues vexing the two cement manufacturers in Utah, and maintenance problems afflicting one, Holcim and Ash Grove put all customers on allocation in 2021.
Challenge 5: There are some additives for concrete that decrease the percentage of cement mix, but those channels dried up. Another piece of the puzzle has to do with a coal plant smoke stack byproduct called fly ash. Fly ash is a pozzolan, an ingredient that has no value on its own but adds value when used as an additive in another material.
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Additional mental health resources save lives
Aimee Winder Newton Salt Lake DistrictCouncilwoman|County3 S everal years ago I publicly shared the story of one my sons who had suicidal thoughts and our efforts to get him help. Since this time I have heard stories from many residents who have struggled to find resources to help loved ones through their own mental health challenges. Hearing these stories reminds me of how my heart ached as I tried to figure out what to do for my son. I was dumbfounded that as a member of the Salt Lake County Council I didn’t know who to call. Salt Lake County has helped fund the local crisis line, but we realized most people didn’t know that resource existed, nor did they have the phone number mem orized. That’s why I was so excited when we launched a three-digit crisis line that would be easier to remember. Last month the number 9-8-8, a suicide prevention and mental health crisis line number, was rolled out nationwide.Whatisthe difference between 988 and 911? The 988 number serves as a sui cide prevention and mental health crisis lifeline and is an access point to crisis re sources such as Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams (MCOT). It is staffed by profession als and is confidential, free and available 24/7.The 911 number still serves as the emergency dispatch for public safety emer gencies, medical emergencies and law en forcement. If the public safety emergency is pertaining to someone who has a mental health condition, or appears to be experi encing a mental health crisis, a crisis in tervention team (CIT) trained officer with basic training in mental health crises can be requested through 911 dispatch. It is also free and available 24/7. The Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams (MCOT) are a critical resource to take the load off police officers to help solve mental health crises. These teams are made up of highly trained licensed mental health clini cians and certified peer support specialists. If someone has a mental health crisis, these teams can be dispatched to a home, school or wherever needed. Their experts arrive in unmarked vehicles to support your privacy and can work with the person experiencing the crisis and help them find a resolution that doesn’t involve self-harm. Right now we only have about half the number of MCOT teams necessary to help the public. I am on the State’s Behavioral Health Crisis Response Commission, and I am pushing for additional state funding, as well as county funding, to fully operate these MCOT teams. I believe investment in MCOT teams is critical. We’ve already seen these teams in action in Salt Lake County saving lives, and I’m hopeful we will see increased access to this resource in the coming months. September is National Suicide Pre vention Month. It’s important that we all know the resources available to help us or our loved ones. My heart aches for those of you who, like me, have had family or friends struggle with mental illness. It is so difficult and frustrating because it’s such a hard problem to solve. Hang in there, my friends. There are brighter days ahead and I know together we can break the stigma, advocate for additional resources, and be come a safe place for others to go to for help.
Utah Team Hope brings awareness to Huntington’s disease
The Utah Team Hope Walk & 5K on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 8:30 a.m. at Sugar House Park, raises funding and awareness for the fatal Hunting ton’s disease. (Photo courtesy of Chelsea Roberts)
The Utah Team Hope Walk & 5K Run will be held Satur day, Sept. 10 at 8:30 a.m. at Sugar House Park (1330 E. 2100 South). All proceeds will support HDSA’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by Huntington’s disease and their families.People can visit Utah.hdsa.org to register for the event. Participants can also set up a team and create a fundraising page.
s e P t . 2022 | Page 19W est J ordan J ournal . C om Chelsea Roberts was 8 years old when her mother was diag nosed with Huntington’s disease. She remembers watching her mother’s decline from the fatal genetic disease that affects nerve cells in the brain. When Roberts was 19, her mother passed“Itaway.was hard. At that point she had suffered for so long, it was kind of a tender mercy. She fought so bravely and so hard. When you watch someone you love go through that for so long, you only want the best for them,” Roberts said. “I’m the only one out of my siblings that hasn’t been diagnosed with the disorder. My younger brother and sister and both have tested positive.”
By Peri Kinder | peri.k@thecityjournals.com
Roberts, who was recently crowned Mrs. Utah Earth 2022, serves as the vice president for the HDSA’s Utah chapter and encourages families, friends and community members to walk together to help improve the lives of people affected by Hun tington’s“There’sdisease.lots of research into medicine that will hinder or stop the progression of the disease. Lots of research in the UK yielded some great results,” Roberts said. “It’s in the group of Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis, as a neurological disorder, so once we get one of those, it will be amazing.”
Today, there are about 41,000 Americans with the disease and more than 200,000 at risk of inheriting the disease. People with the genetic marker have a 50% chance of passing it down to theirTochildren.bringawareness to the disease, the Huntington's Dis ease Society of America will host Team Hope, the organiza tion’s largest national grassroots fundraising event, which takes place in 100 cities across the country. In 15 years, it’s raised more than $20 million.
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“I’ve just been in awe of the community and the support they’ve given my family over the years,” Roberts said. “We’re going to come together in the community to celebrate hope, to celebrate the ability to have a sense of community because it’s a really isolating disease. We want to bring together a plethora of people who are here to buoy you up and support you and advocate for a cure.”
“I’ve just always loved cooking for people and making them happy and put ting a smile on their face,” Stafford said. l
Kitchen manager Kim Stafford makes fun treats for students and staff members. (Photo courtesy of Kim Stafford.)
requirements of the meal,” Alger said. Alger said these accommodations have helped the kids feel a sense of belonging.
Alger said families are grateful that their kids are getting their dietary needs met and students are happy because they are getting a satisfying meal instead of only eating a portion of their lunch. That means they aren’t hungry for the rest of the school day.
“The lunchroom is a place where people come together, you know the custom of break ing bread together breaks down walls,” he said. “Well, if you can’t eat the same thing I can eat, that feels wrong. Kim has really torn down that wall by being able to make meals appropriate for all of the students at Heartland, regardless of their religious beliefs.”
Alger said Stafford is excited about the alternative meal options she offers, and when she sees the kids coming through the lunch line, she gets excited to bring out their special lunch, which makes the kids excited, too.
Stafford set aside cups months in advance to ensure there were enough for the dirt cups, and when gummy worms didn’t show up in that week’s food delivery, she rushed to the store to purchase them herself.
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Stafford loves her job. This is her fourth year as kitchen manager at Heart land Elementary and her seventeenth year working in Jordan School District. She was selected as one of the 2022 Outstand ing Educational Support Professionals. Stafford loves taking care of people with food. She often will make a treat for teach ers—a pot of soup or cinnamon rolls. This year, she started inviting each child to come to the cafeteria for a cookie on their birthday.
“Kids are grateful for the adjustment,” Alger said. “I think kids are fuller, and we know that kids learn better on full bellies.”
When problems come up, Stafford finds creativeThesolutions.school district plans treats each month and one of the most popular is the pudding dirt cup. Last year, kitchen staffs experienced shortages of supplies, including plastic silverware and plastic cups.
“It’s not a dirt cup without gummy worms,” she said. “The kids love those spe cial treat days so much, I didn’t want to take it away from them.” Another time, she ran out of Lucky Charms cereal and so she called around to several other school cafeterias until she found some for one of her special ed stu dents, who depends on his routine of eat ing Lucky Charms for breakfast.
“They’re all excited to get their adjusted menu because she has something delicious to offer them that meets their needs,” he said.
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Fifth-grader Lili Mattson remembered competing before and was pumped to run and throw a softball.
“I want you to be a friend and I want you to make sure everyone feels a sense of love and belonging today,” Cox said. “That’s what today’s all about. It’s about helping each other and loving each other.” River’s Edge students carried the American flag in the stadium. “They were excited to be asked,” 20-year special education teacher Melis sa Munson said. “Our kids are excited to show their parents and audience the skills they’ve practiced all year in their adaptive PE classes. Some of them are more excited for that than the ribbons.”
“It’s a special day for students because they’re at the center of attention, showing the skills they’ve learned to their parents,” said “It’s just such a fun family day where we all get to celebrate together.” l
Terra Linda Tigers cheer as they walk in carrying their banner at the Sports Day parade of athletes.
Sports Day gives elementary students chance to shine through friendly competition
“I have a lot of ribbons from before on my bedroom walls – blue, green, red, orange; I want pink this year,” she said. “We’ve been practicing for Sports Day. We run laps around the school field, and I try to outjump my friends because I want to win. Winning is fun, but I need to remem ber to just do my best.”
West Jordan Elementary’s JonDavid Watkins shows off his medal from Sports Day. (Julie Slama/City Journal)
South Jordan Elementary students, like many other schools, received a clapout and good luck wishes before boarding a bus for Herriman High, where teams from across Jordan School District came togeth er to parade in front of family, friends and Utah First Lady Abby Cox, who was a for mer special education teacher.
Heartland Elementary students are set to compete after they participate in Sports Day parade of athletes. (Julie Slama/City Journals)
Photos of Sports Day are included in the school’s yearbook, so students get to relive the excitement of the day, she said. After the parade, many parents came onto the field to cheer on their student-ath letes as they rotated between events. The competition began with the 400-meter dash. Then school groups, dressed in matching team shirts, rotated between the softball throw, a long jump and a 50-meter dash, many of the events coordinated by volunteers. Aaron Simpson was on the field sup porting his first-grade daughter, Ansley, who attends Antelope Canyon.
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An Antelope Canyon student races against an Oquirrh student during the 50-meter dash at Jordan School District’s Sports Day. (Julie Slama/City Journals)
“She loves being active,” he said. “She’s constantly running up and down the street, asking to do things with me. She was pretty excited for this day.” After throwing the softball, Ansley started dancing in celebration.
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S outh Jordan Elementary sixth-grader Trent Corum was pretty excited about getting a chance to win some ribbons at Sports Day.
“It’s been a couple years since we’ve been able to hold it for all schools to get together because of COVID,” she said, pointing out the pandemic safety and health protocols restricted the District event. “That’s a long time in a young child’s life, but we’ve talked about all the fun we’ll have together and the fun way we can exercise with friends.”
“She’s just having so much fun,” her dad said.That’s what Michele Couvertier, a teacher at Daybreak Elementary for 19 years, appreciates about Sports Day.
“I like running short races,” he said. “I’m faster than my teacher and I can prob ably throw farther too.” Trent, his classmates and other el ementary students with special needs around Jordan School District came to gether for Sports Day, an opportunity to display their skills they learned in adaptive PE classes while having a fun competition against others the same age and the same ability.His teacher, Kelli Sundell, said it was an event some of her students looked for ward to while others didn’t even remember it.
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By Robert Spendlove, Zions Bank Senior Economist
What is a recession and are we in one?
Robert Spendlove is senior economist for Zions Bank, a division of Zions Bancor poration, N.A. l
The U.S. economy is in a time of transi tion, and that makes it hard to predict ex actly where it’s headed. The Gross Domestic Product – the broadest measure of the econ omy – contracted for the second consecutive quarter in 2022. Two quarters of negative GDP growth is a popular definition of a re cession. However, the nation’s strong labor market and low unemployment rate compli cates the narrative. A recession is officially declared by the National Bureau of Economic Research based on a more technical definition: “a sig nificant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months.” Economists at the NBER evaluate a broad range of data, in cluding employment, income, sales and pro duction. But because of the lag in when data become available, a recession often isn’t de clared until it’s well underway or even after it hasHowended.do we know if – or when – our economy is in a recession? Here are some indicators economists are watching: Inflation. August Consumer Price In dex data shows that price growth is slowing, though it’s too early to tell whether inflation has peaked. National inflation fell from 9.1% to 8.5% year over year, but that is still near a 40-year high. Even if inflation has peaked, it needs to drop to more manageable levels aroundConsumer2%. sentiment. Nearly half of consumers blame inflation for eroding their living standards, plunging the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index to its lowest level in 72 years in early summer. Consumer sentiment has risen slightly since its June low, a hopeful sign that consumers’ economic outlook might be improving. And even though they’re unhappy, consumers are still spending.Interest rates. The Federal Reserve meets again Sept. 20 and 21 when they are expected to raise interest rates for a fourth time this year. The Fed’s goal is that an in crease in interest rates will tighten financial conditions and increase borrowing costs, which will cause the economy to soften and inflation to slow. However, an overcorrection could trigger a recession. Since the 1960s, nearly every time the Fed has significantly increased interest rates a recession followed relatively quickly. Wage growth. Wages grew 5.2% from July 2021 to July 2022 in America, well above the 2.9% average annual wage growth of the past 15 years. However, even high wage growth is not keeping pace with infla tion. Instead, it’s driving inflation, risking a dangerous wage-price spiral. Both inflation and wage growth need to come down to ad dress overheating in the economy. Job market. The labor market continues to be the strongest segment of the economy, adding an average of 400,000 jobs per month in 2022. Payrolls increased by 528,000 jobs in July, exceeding expectations, and the national unemployment rate dropped to its pre-pandemic level of 3.5%. There are near ly two job openings for every unemployed person in America, an ongoing symptom of the laborUtah’sshortage.economy is slowing but still positive. Our state’s population growth con tinues to lead the nation and Utah is at the center of the fastest growing region in the country. However, Utah now lags the nation in employment growth. This is due in part to an extremely low unemployment rate, which at 2% is the second lowest in the nation. Low unemployment has constrained economic growth and has caused regional inflation to be the highest in the nation. On the other hand, home price appreciation is decelerat ing quickly in Utah as potential home buyers are responding to high mortgage rates and a limited supply of affordable homes. With a diversified economy, Utah is not immune to national economic pressures but the fundamental strength in our state should mitigate some of the national economic con ditions.
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Unified golf is an opportunity for students with and without disabilities to play golf to gether.
Elk Ridge Middle School special educa tion teacher Amanda Mair said her students rotated in the kick-off’s skill activities.
It was a bit warmer than the original kickoff date, during which it snowed, Worthen said, who added the event was “incredible.”
It came about when South Jordan’s Glen moor Golf Course PGA professional Darci Olsen approached Courtnie Worthen, Unified Champion Schools manager with Special Olympics Utah, to discuss adding unified golf to the unified sports program. Unified sports fosters empathy and inclusive opportunities for all
Lindsay Auld with Jordan Education Foundation said the event was “awesome.”
“Watching the kids get excited about try ing the skills and learning how to swing, how to putt, and having adaptive units there to help them, really helped them get a sense of the sport and how they could be successful if they joined a team,” she said. “The students were really excited to be a part of this.” Amongst the equipment provided to help make it easier for the students were pool noo dles on the putting green to guide the ball to ward the Jordanhole.Education Foundation Director Mike Haynes said that unified golf will be on going.“They will compete in the Utah Open ce lebrity skills challenge,” he said. “This was the result of a collaboration of Special Olympics, Glenmoor Golf Course and Jordan Education Foundation. It’s all about the inclusion and it is so valuable to our community to create oppor tunities of inclusion for all kids.”
By Julie Slama
About 235 students from eight Jordan School District middle schools tried learning golf skills at this past spring’s Special Olympics kick-off of unified golf at Glenmoor Golf Course. Now, 40 students are getting a chance to develop their skills this summer as they com pete in four junior PGA unified golf teams.
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and Worthen received a grant from Special Olympics North America through the accessible golf associations to be gin theTheprogram.program, which also involved South Jordan Mayor Dawn Ramsey, was developed this past school year.
“It was a fun activity,” she said. “It was a little chilly, but I think the kids had a great time.”
“Golf is a life-long sport. We wanted to introduce it to younger athletes as we don’t have any programs offered in the middle schools,” she said. “By making golf accessible, students are not only learning about golf, but also having that experience in teamwork and sportsmanship, and in developing friendships.”
Hundreds of middle school students swing away at unified golf
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First lady Abby Cox, former Gov. Gary Herbert and assorted superheroes and cartoon characters helped to kick off the program, where students received a quick lesson in using a golf club, swinging, putting and enjoying the game in each other’s company.
Jordan School District middle school students hit tennis balls while learning how to play during the uni fied golf kick-off. (Photo courtesy of Jordan Education Foundation)
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From left, Salt Lake County Youth Services Director Carolyn Hansen and Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson cut the ribbon to open the newly renovated building that provides safe, trauma-informed care for runaway and homeless youth. (Photos courtesy City Journals)
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The Runaway and Homeless Youth Pro gram focuses on several goals to help those it serves. These include improving a person’s well-being, building healthy relationships, im proving self-sufficiency and keeping youth off the streets.Theprogram collaborated with commu nity partners to provide education, medical and dental services, mental health counseling, clothes, food and hygiene products. Other ser vices provided on the county’s South Salt Lake campus include the juvenile receiving center which is open 24/7 to provide free crisis coun seling and referral to community agencies, and the homeless youth walk-in program that gives youth access to food, counseling, shelter, showers and laundry facilities for 24 hours. Youth can come to the facility on their own, or they might be brought in by parents or law enforcement. No appointment is required to access the services. For more information, visit slco.org/youth.“Ifyoulookat the crisis moments that these kids are facing when they come in the doors, to be greeted with this amazing staff with smiles on their faces, but also a physical space that is worthy of moving them to a better situation,” Wilson said. “What a great place for a child to receive support.”
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Salt Lake County Youth Services held a rib bon cutting Aug. 11 to celebrate the renova tion of the Runaway Homeless Youth Program facility (177 W. Price Ave.) in South Salt Lake. The program serves runaway and homeless youth, ages 8-17, for up to 21 days. The renovation was focused on creating a trauma-informed environment with updated colors, open space designs and individualized bedrooms. New murals were painted by artists Alli VanKleeck and Caroline Kane of Smock & Roll.“All the murals in the bedrooms are unique and different because our kids are unique and different and we didn’t want it to be the same in every bedroom,” said Salt Lake County Youth Services Director Carolyn Han sen. “We wanted it to be a special place for the youth that come, that we serve.” Youth can stay in the facility for up to 21 days while they receive individual or family therapy, designed to help them return to a safe and stable environment, with follow-up sup port for 90 days. Over the years, thousands of youth have turned to the facility for assistance with more than 110 youth being helped in 2022 so far. Four beds are dedicated for runaway homeless youth. Built in the 1990s, the building needed some upgrades in both function and design. “We wanted a space that was welcoming and more homelike so the youth that we serve here, specifically our runaway homeless youth, will be able to come to a place where they feel comfortable and safe,” Hansen said. Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson was on hand for the ribbon cutting and con gratulated the staff and volunteers on the ren ovation.“Iwalked through this space [before] and it was pretty crappy,” Wilson said. “It wasn’t great. I remember asking questions and hear ing the vision for what this could be. And to see it now, it’s just stunning. It’s beautiful.”
A renovated facility in South Salt Lake helps youth in crisis
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Reverse osmosis purification plant to increase water supply in Riverton
The project is made possible through a strategic partnership with Salt Lake County, using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act.
“We are excited to partner with River ton City on this critical water infrastructure project,” said Salt Lake County Council Chair Laurie Stringham. “This project is one of several water conserving projects funded by the Salt Lake County Council this year.”
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An innovative project in Riverton will in crease the city’s culinary water supply using a sustainable source. It will also help keep culinary water rates low in the years ahead.
Before the city started purchasing wa ter from JVWCD, the Green Well produced high quality water, but it still didn’t reach the quality provided by the district. With the reverse osmosis purification plant, the city can once again tap into the Green Well to in crease the city’s water supply, offering clean culinaryReversewater.osmosis is a process that re moves contaminants from water by push ing it through a semi-permeable filter using pressure. Installation of the plant begins this fall and is expected to be completed by June 2023.Once complete, an anticipated 1,300 gallons of treated culinary water will be produced at the well per minute; more than 1.8 million gallons every day. The increased supply of culinary water will help keep wa ter rates for Riverton residents low in the future. An external geological analysis de termined the underground aquifer that feeds the Green Well has a life expectancy of more than 20 “Theyears.Riverton project will add a sus tainable source of water in an area of Salt Lake County seeing significant growth; freeing up thousands of additional acre feet of water for other parts of the county that desperately need additional water,” String ham said. “Our partnership with Riverton City on this project will save county taxpay ers over $2 million.” More information about the proj ect can be found at rivertonutah.gov/well.
A water project at Riverton’s Green Well is expected to add 1,300 gallons of purified culinary water each minute; nearly 2 million gallons per day. (Photo courtesy of Riverton City)
A reverse osmosis purification plant on the city’s Green Well will improve the quali ty of water so it meets or exceeds that of the culinary water provided to the city by Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District. The wa ter treated at the plant will supplement Riv erton’s primary culinary water supply.
“With water being such a valuable re source in Utah, we are grateful to the Salt Lake County Council for their financial contribution to this project to help us in crease water supply,” Riverton Mayor Trent StaggsThesaid.Salt Lake County Council appro priated $3 million in federal ARPA funds toward the project. In addition to providing roughly $2.1 million worth of existing Green Well infrastructure, the Riverton City Coun cil has appropriated $600,000-$700,000 in ARPA funds to the plant. The partnership includes an agreement that the project will provide water to the Salt Lake County Riv erbend Golf Course at a reduced rate, saving county taxpayers nearly $100,000 per year for the next 20 years.
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The article states that West Jordan’s Truth in Taxation meet ing was scheduled for August 6. The meeting was scheduled for Tuesday, August 9.
Of a property owner's entire tax bill, the city receives only a small portion. “The city receives 14 cents for every one dollar of your property tax bill,” Steck said.Increased retail and home improve ment has brought in more sales tax to the city, but anything greater than a 5% growth is counted as one-time spending. “If the city counts one-time revenues, large property taxes become necessary in the future,” Steck said. l
Residents gather on Aug. 10 to hear about the confirmation of the tax rate increase. (Image West Jordan City)
By Erin Dixon | e.dixon@mycityjournals.com
Council and community discuss pros and cons of tax rate increase
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On Aug. 9, West Jordan City Council hosted theirs and listened to opinions from the public. The following day, the council confirmed a 5.6% property tax change. Even though it may mean residents pay more on their tax bill, “This is the low est property tax rate we’ve had in a long time,” Danyce Steck, West Jordan finance director,Sincesaid.2012, the property tax rate has been falling. Property values drive the rate changes over the years, which means own ers will sometimes pay more, sometimes less.
Resident James Romero voiced con cerns about this year's rate increase during the truth in taxation meeting.
Resident Troy Porter agreed and urged the council to be proactive with oth er leaders.“What I'm hoping is that all of you people can have an influence on other peo ple, the state, the school districts,” Porter said.Councilmember Pamela Bloom agreed that tax increases can be unfair to people with fixed-incomes. “One of the biggest things for me was our elderly and our seniors,” Bloom said. “At the end of the day we need our legis lators to get involved. It is in their hands to help with that. I encourage everybody to talk to your legislators to help those who struggle when these prices go up.”
“Your seniors are all hurting,” Rome ro said. “Their property taxes keep going up $200 to $300 a year. I’ve been preach ing to my representatives that when a cou ple retires…they should freeze the prop erty tax on their primary residence at the time of retirement. Everything is going out of control.”
There was no solid waste money transfer to the general fund for the 2023 budget. In stead, there were transfers from the water, sewer, storm water, and streetlight fund to the gen eral fund, for a total of $2.3 mil lion.The city will use $2.1 million in reserve money, not $2.3 mil lion. While the communications budget has decreased due to overall cuts, funding that was put in the budget last year for mail ers has been reallocated to other departments for the current year. Residents should still anticipate receiving information from the city through the mail. Many departments made strategic cuts this year to help decrease overall expenses. The decrease in the communications budget was not directly tied to the council office budget in crease.
“Personally, I think it should be high er,” McConnehey said. “I cannot strongly enough express how much I do not like the utility fee transfer. I’d rather see a higher property tax rate and decrease utility fees. I realize I am only one of seven.”
Clarifications for August issue article ‘West Jordan budget from inside out’
Councilmember David Pack assured residents that even though the staff of the city, including police and fire, received raises, “The city council didn’t receive a raise. The mayor didn’t receive a raise; not even a cost-of-living adjustment.” In the spring, the mayor presented the council with a budget that included a 10% property tax rate increase. Most of that in crease was meant for police wages. In hopes of bringing down that 10% but keeping the police raises, “The council spent many hours with Ms. Steck looking for places we could cut the mayor's budget and save taxpayer dollars,” Council Chair Kayleen Whitelock Councilmembersaid.Chris McConnehey expressed an opposing opinion.
Atruth in taxation meeting is required if a city, or any tax-collecting organi zation, wants to change the rate at which their residents are taxed.
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I Al Gore been warning about devastating no surrounded temperatures, severe wildfires, drought, species extinction and the demise of the Choco Taco. If I was getting hot ter each year, I’d be okay with that, but when our planet gets even a touch warmer, things start to go awry. Our Great Salt Lake is facing some dire global warming effects. With the lake shrinking, Antelope “Island” has to use airquotes. The brine shrimp industry could go the way of the dinosaurs. And the lake is now officially called the Great Salt Lick. Scientists say a toxic dust cloud rising from the dried-up lake bed will prompt a new line of citrus-scented Pledge prod ucts to “Remove deadly arsenic from your home because you didn’t address this problem decades ago, idiot.”
Everyone used aerosol hairspray to get big hair and sky-high bangs. In fact, Aqua Net was our school mascot. But when we learned the chemicals damaged our atmo sphere, there was a worldwide campaign to ban them -- and it happened. Everyone agreed the ozone was worth protecting and did something about it. Crazy, huh? Where’s that cohesion now? Remember in the spring of 2020, when people actually cared about trying to stop the spread of COVID-19? We isolated in our homes, playing endless games of Uno, Clue and Cards Against Humanity, until getting the disease didn’t seem so bad. Flights were canceled, millions of cars were off the roads, and introverts were having big celebrations. By themselves. In theirDuringclosets. those brief weeks, cities around the world showed an improvement in air and water quality. Even in Utah, the sky was bluer and the air was cleaner. Now we’re back in our cars and the air is trying to kill us. I recently walked through the Room of Extinction and Forewarning at the Utah Museum of Natural History, where dino saur bones are displayed, like the 90-footlong Barosaurus that was all neck and tail, and died 150 million years ago. A trophy wall of triceratops’ skulls stared down at me with hollow eyes and gaping jaws. Gi ant sloths and massive bears wandered this area 12,000 years ago. Of all the species that ever existed on Earth, 99.9 percent are now extinct. We could soon lose mountain gorillas, black rhinos, African forest elephants and orang utans.Here’s the thing, the Earth will be fine. It’s gone through climate cycles for 4.5 billion years. It’s watched civilizations rise and fall, and specialty soda shops fade into extinction. However, humanity is in a spot of “Buttrouble.theclimate is going to change anyway. Why is it our problem?” annoying peopleShutask.up. Yes, climate change happens naturally, but thanks to humans, the pro cess has sped up like a meteor breaking the sound barrier. I don’t want my grandchildren to wor ry about water and food and sharknados. We need to elect leaders who promote green solutions. We need politicians who care less about their pocketbook and more about the planet’s future. I believe in global warming because I’m not a knucklehead. It’s my fear that one day my skeleton will be displayed in a museum as an extinct species, with the sound of Al Gore quietly weeping through the speakers.
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