Auditing River Heights
The Ledger's review of River Heights's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money.
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Background
Auditing River Heights: what we're examining and why
The Ledger is reading River Heights city's budgets, audited financial statements and council records. Here is what the city's fiscal 2025 audit and its fiscal 2026-27 final budget show.
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- Politics
River Heights raises its property tax rate to 0.000849 and lists $85,101 in added revenue
After a Truth in Taxation hearing on Aug. 17, the River Heights City Council voted 5-0 for a rate above the certified rate. The city's stated plan splits the estimated added revenue among parks, sidewalk repairs and administrative wages and benefits.
- Politics
River Heights seeks Cache County COG funds to widen 600 South
At an Aug. 13 hearing the city engineer described a $781,700 project with $721,050 eligible for Cache County Council of Governments funding. The written cost opinion attached to the same minutes lists $788,700 total and $580,800 in eligible costs.