Jenny Wilson is Salt Lake County mayor, in office since 2019. Her county biography says she served on the Salt Lake County Council for ten years starting in 2005, the first woman elected to it, and earlier was chief of staff to Congressman Bill Orton, with administration, fundraising and government-relations work at the Sundance Institute, Voices for Utah Children, the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center and the 2002 Winter Olympics. It lists a master's in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Snyderville Basin voters decide up to $71 million in recreation bonds, San Juan County votes on a 1% ambulance sales tax, and Washington City votes on a fire and emergency services sales tax. Here is what each measure does, what it would cost and what is not on the ballot.
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Smith Entertainment Group and city and county leaders say the redesigned blocks around the Delta Center and Salt Palace should be finished before the 2034 Winter Games.
A half-cent sales tax is paying to remake the Delta Center and the blocks around it, while a separate group pursues a Major League Baseball team for the city's west side.
