The agreement comes after years of conflict and paves the way for more transparency and collaboration between the port authority and Utah’s capital.
Mayor Erin Mendenhall lauds the pact, which is intended to bring more transparency, collaboration and a focus on the project’s impact.
“This is a milestone we’ve been working toward since I became the mayor, really,” Mayor Erin Mendenhall said, “which takes us out of the year-to-year legislative washing machine that has opened a can of worms and has been overall a detrimental cycle for the city in terms of security around the future of the port and our tax increment dollars.”and pay to study the project’s effect on human health, traffic and the community.
Before making those changes, the port authority was entitled to 75% of the city’s property tax revenue in the northwest quadrant, could spend its money however it wanted, and operated with little oversight. The body had no requirement to follow theThe relationship between the city and the port has historically been so contentious that the city sued, arguing the formation of the port authority was unconstitutional.
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