Daniel Olson is Santaquin’s mayor and a former operations executive. In his 2025 candidate statement published by the city, he said he retired as GlobalSim’s vice president of operations in 2020. His public-service background includes four decades as a Santaquin firefighter, earlier City Council and mayoral service during 1980–1985, and work on planning and zoning and a water-treatment selection committee. Olson won the mayoral election again in 2021. The city’s budget narrative dates the beginning of that later administration to January 2022.
A May 22 notice set a June 2 hearing on Santaquin's tentative budget and a proposed property tax increase. On June 16 the council instead unanimously adopted the certified rate of 0.001399, and the final budget's lines for a fire-department tax increase are zero.
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