According to candidate-supplied information on BallotReady, Blake Wright lists service as River Heights mayor and earlier service on the River Heights city council. He lists work as president and principal landscape architect at Architectural Design West, P.C. He lists an MBA from Utah State University (1989) and a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture and environmental planning from Utah State (1986).
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.
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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.
