Meeting Notes

Oct 6, 2026 · City audio (council + study meetings)

• Fire station funding: the Municipal Building Authority (a city-controlled board used to finance buildings) approved up to $27 million in lease revenue bonds to build Fire Station 65 on the growing west side. A bond is a loan the city repays over time. With a lease revenue bond, the board borrows the money and builds the station, and the city pays it back through lease payments, with the station as collateral. Staff said no tax increase is needed. Two public hearings drew no comments, and the vote was unanimous.
• Chose Councilmember Patrick Harris as mayor pro tem, the acting mayor who runs the meeting, for Oct 20 while Mayor Dawn Ramsey is away on city business.
• Roads: UDOT has connected the new U-111 and closed part of old Bacchus Highway. South Jordan Parkway, Lake Avenue and Dock Sider should connect in a couple of weeks. Lake Avenue will be right-in/right-out only, with no left turns or signal.
• Public comment: state Rep. Tracy Miller invited residents to a legislative town hall. A Glenmore resident complained about rising HOA fees and stray golf balls; the city attorney said HOA fees and golf course netting are private matters the city cannot regulate.
• Announcements: Josh was named the city's new communications manager, Sandbox Theater previewed its musical "Lucky Stiff," and the Halloween 5K is Oct 17 at Bingham Creek Regional Park.
• Study meeting, a discussion-only session with no votes: U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy talked about federal project funding and data centers raising power costs. UDOT presented a guide for cities on drones and vertiports (landing pads for drones and air taxis). Staff reported progress rewriting the city's development code, the zoning and building rules. The council then went into a closed session, a private meeting allowed by state law, to discuss an individual's character and competence; no votes are taken there.

Oct 13, 2026 · YouTube live stream, study session + business meeting (captions)

• Fee rules: approved unanimously an update to the district's school fees policy (AA408). It sets how fee waivers work for families who can't afford fees, including the option to do a service assignment instead. The changes bring the policy in line with state law and a state audit.
• Land swap: approved unanimously a trade with UDOT (the state road agency). The district gives up land along the Mountain View Corridor that UDOT needs for a future freeway expansion. In return it gets the rest of the property around the Jordan Learning Center near Elk Ridge Middle School (except the car wash), plus cash.
• School closure review: after the enrollment forecast, voted unanimously to send Aspen, Southland and Westvale elementaries to the facilities committee. That committee studies whether shrinking schools should be combined, rezoned or kept as is; nothing was closed.
• Boundaries: voted 6-1 (Ms. Dean opposed) to have the facilities committee take a wider look at the proposed middle school boundary changes, meaning which neighborhoods feed which schools, and at nearby boundaries before a final decision.
• Spending: approved unanimously a $154,000 study of career and technical education (CTE) programs and job-market fit, paid from a $258,000 state Apex grant rather than local taxes. Also approved unanimously more than $700,000 for security window film required by a new state law (HB 84) and a network firewall at JATC South.
• Postponed votes on board governance policies GP 100, 101, 111, 112 and 114, which are the rules for how the board itself operates. The board ended in a closed session, a private meeting state law allows for personnel, property, legal and security matters; no votes can be taken there.

Oct 13, 2026 · CivicClerk meeting video

• Arts and zoo grants: approved about $38 million in ZAP grants. ZAP is a voter-approved sales tax that funds arts, cultural, botanical and zoo groups. That covers $17.4 million for 22 large groups (Tier One), the zoo, aviary and aquarium, and 214 smaller groups (Tier Two, 21 of them new). Both votes passed with no opposition heard.
• Routine items: approved the consent agenda (items 4.1 to 6.1), a bundle of routine items passed in one vote without discussion. Also appointed temporary deputy constables, officers who serve court papers, for one office until the state takes over constables early next year.
• Budget outlook (no vote): property tax revenue from new construction, called new growth, adds about $4.6 million without raising rates. General fund revenue is expected to rise about $8.3 million. Sales tax is projected to grow 3.5% in 2027, while hotel tax is expected to drop about 2.5% because the Salt Palace convention center is closing.
• Economy briefing (no vote): the Gardner Policy Institute said Utah jobs grew 1.2% in the past year versus 0.3% nationally, Utah tech jobs fell by about 2,300, and inflation is 3.4%.
• Set an Oct 20, 1:30 PM public hearing, a session where residents can comment before a vote, on an agreement with Salt Lake City. It confirms the city library's share of property taxes stays out of a city tax-increment area, a district where new property tax growth is reinvested locally. Staff said the budget is unchanged.
• Mayor's report: the county closed a $1.3 million tax-credit financing deal, a federal program that lowers the cost of building, for a senior center. The county also formally opposed repealing the federal roadless rule, which protects canyon watersheds that supply drinking water.

Oct 1, 2026 · USBE YouTube live stream (captions)

• Leftover money: approved staff spending plans for carry-forward funds (money left over from last year), as amended. The board's recommendations go to the governor's budget office, and staff said the board can present them to the legislature's education budget committee on Oct 20.
• Math standards: worked through amendments to the draft state math standards. Passed 8-6 a change moving the competencies to the end of each grade level, and 9-5 adding the word "only" before "independently" on page seven.
• Legislative wish list: voted 10-4 to have staff pursue 13 of its own policy requests with the legislature, after an 11-3 vote against splitting them up. Also voted 9-5 to ask lawmakers to repeal state code 53G-9-205.2, which members said puts an opt-out paperwork burden only on districts over 5,500 students, and 11-3 to rename the "metadata dictionary" the "student data disclosure list" and state that students have a privacy interest in their data. A motion to ask lawmakers to drop state-required tests beyond what federal law requires failed 5-7; Amanda Bollinger, South Jordan's board member (District 9), voted yes.
• High school redesign: voted 11-2 to join the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) High School Transformation State Network and sign its memorandum of understanding.
• December meeting: motions to cancel the December meetings (2-11), move them to Nov 30 and Dec 1, or move them to Dec 10 and 11 all failed, so the December meeting stays as scheduled.
• Educator discipline: after a closed session, approved a mediated legal settlement (case 2026-0552) and several educator license cases, including a reprimand (9-2, one abstention) and a voluntary license surrender. Also voted 11-1 to name seven board members, including Bollinger, to the search committee for a new deputy superintendent of operations.