The Sandy City Council minutes, as summarized by The Utah Ledger, name Monica Zoltanski among the members voting no on 20 agenda items. Minutes do not always record each member's vote, so this list does not show how Monica Zoltanski voted on other items. On a motion to deny, table or continue, a no vote is a vote against that motion. It is not a score or a rating.
Moved by Council Member Brooke Christensen, seconded by Council Member Cyndi Sharkey
Showing the latest 15 of 20.
From council minutes collected by The Utah Ledger; each item links to the meeting page and its official minutes.
Law, journalism and small business
Monica Zoltanski grew up in Ohio, studied journalism at Marquette University and spent a year studying in Salzburg, Austria. She worked as a congressional aide in Washington before attending law school at the University of Toledo. After moving to Utah, she practiced litigation, worked as a Sandy City prosecutor and later operated antiques shops in the Salt Lake Valley.[1]
Council member and mayor
Zoltanski won election to the Sandy City Council in 2019 and served for two years before winning the mayoral election in 2021. She became the first woman elected mayor in the city’s history. Sandy now identifies her as its twenty-seventh mayor, serving a second term, and describes public safety, economic development and community engagement as her administration’s priorities.[1][2][5]
In her 2026 nomination questionnaire for the Utah League of Cities and Towns board, Sandy Mayor Monica Zoltanski described her first term as including a new fire station, a public works maintenance facility and a community recreation center, along with Sandy's first comprehensive general plan update in 50 years. She said voters approved a $21 million fire station bond with 67 percent support in 2023. She listed her background as an attorney and former city prosecutor, and said she chairs the Salt Lake County Council of Mayors and has served on the Wasatch Front Regional Council.[6]
Open space and neighborhood advocacy
Her earlier campaign biography identifies her as a founder of Keep Dimple Dell Wild and the Dimple Dell Preservation Community. It describes organizing volunteers for park cleanups and supporting restoration of a pioneer homestead in Dimple Dell Park. She links that advocacy to protecting open space and neighborhoods while addressing development pressures, and to supporting first responders and municipal services.[3]
Regional representation
Zoltanski represents Sandy on the Central Wasatch Commission. The commission’s biography connects her environmental advocacy with her legal career and experience in local prosecution. It describes increased resident participation, protection of established neighborhoods, support for public-safety officers and responsible use of tax money as her stated priorities. This regional role extends her public service beyond Sandy’s municipal government.[4]
Profile sources
Profile refreshed October 20, 2026. Candidate statements describe the candidate's own experience or positions; official records and reporting are labeled separately.
On July 7, 2026 the council voted 5-1-1 to override a veto of a $93,100 water capital appropriation. Minutes also record a 4-3 budget adoption and veto notice in 2020 and a 2022 tax decision.