Continued from front page 1997 - The E Center opened as an additional area venue to host concerts, sporting and other events. Now called the Maverik Center, it is the home of the Utah Grizzlies minor league hockey team, which moved to West Valley City from Denver the previous year. The arena had its moment on the world stage when it hosted ice hockey during the 2002 Winter Olympics. 1999 - The West Valley City Family Fitness Center opened. The facility and surrounding Centennial Park gave the city a centrally located recreation and social gathering spot. Its presence spurred the development of nearby vacant fields into homes and commercial development, making the 5600 West corridor one of the busiest in the city. 2003 - The Utah Cultural Celebration Center opened its doors. It is a key city venue for theater productions, concerts and a variety of cultural events to celebrate the cultural and ethnic diversity of West Valley City. 2010 - Valley Fair Mall, which opened in 1970, underwent a complete makeover, including the renovation of the indoor portion of the shopping center and the addition of an outdoor component of eateries and specialty shops. 2011/2012 - The UTA TRAX and bus hub known as West Valley Central Station opened near City Hall and marked the start of a development called Fairbourne Station.
It now includes multifamily housing, a public parking structure, the city’s new police department building (2019), Granger Medical Clinic (2020), and an office and commercial tower that should be completed this year as the city’s tallest building. It’s all part of an effort to create a “downtown” core for West Valley City. 2019 - The ribbon was cut on the aforementioned police headquarters building. The structure marks the first time in West Valley’s history that the department has had a place to call its own with all the attendant state-of-the-art resources needed for policing Utah’s second-most populous city. The police department previously shared a building with the fire department. 2020 - It began several years ago and has exploded lately with construction underway seemingly everywhere in West Valley City’s northwest quadrant—a corridor of light industrial buildings, making the city a growing hotspot for warehouses and associated transportation to move goods in and out of those facilities to and from points all over the western U.S. and beyond. There are, of course, many other milestones and events that have occurred since 1980 that have transformed the city from barely surviving at birth to a mature adult that has grown to be strong and healthy four decades later. Happy 40th birthday, West Valley City. l
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When our state government took action to protect Utahns from COVID19, there wasn’t time to go through all the regular steps of legislative deliberation. That’s what emergency proclamations are for; they define situations that allow executive officials to take quick steps for the health and safety of the population. Even then, there are requirements and limits under such declarations, and we trust leaders to act with good information and the integrity of their office. We must be able to trust leaders in emergencies. We want to be able to trust them at all times. That is why elected leaders must be clear and open in their positions of representation and leadership, even in times of no emergency. That is why seeing and understanding elected officials’ actions is a primary consideration in voting. As the state pandemic response developed and we could note more details, some of us elected officials grew concerned about expenditures on questionable items, products and processes that didn’t align with valid information or with the guidance of our state public health or economic
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experts. Even in this time of emergency and necessity for quick response, certain contracts were suspicious. We asked about steps and documents that are required, even in crisis situations. We wondered about other contracts. Some skilled journalists investigated and provided the public with information, some of it logical, some of it more concerning, much of it disappointing in its corruption of public trust. When we eventually heard the governor’s promise about proper contracts in the future, how much confidence in representative leaders had already been lost? At this point in the COVID19 response, we state legislators are reviewing and reconsidering budget items, the allocation of federal relief funds, and layers of impact from the pandemic. We hold a great responsibility to view tax revenue not just as dollars but as a civic contribution from each taxpayer. I agree with you: in order to uphold the trust placed in us elected leaders, our actions must be transparent and purposeful, especially now.
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