Centerville: property tax, Main Street loan and emergency radios
The Ledger's review of Centerville's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money. Every story in the series, sorted by subject, with the figures the records show and links to the official documents.
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Auditing Centerville: audit, reserves, debt and the 2026 budget
The Ledger is reviewing Centerville's public financial records, starting with its fiscal 2025 audit, its fiscal 2027 budget and property tax increase, a planned waterline loan and two redevelopment agency decisions. Every figure comes from a linked public record.
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- $3.3 millionGeneral Fund balance, June 30, 2025 (audited FY2025 report)Auditing Centerville: audit, reserves, debt and the 2026 budget →
- $37.2 millionAdopted FY2027 budget across city funds (excludes RDA, includes transfers)Auditing Centerville: audit, reserves, debt and the 2026 budget →
- $369,103Added annual city property tax revenue from the Aug. 25, 2026 increaseCenterville raises property tax rate for insurance, a police job and a fire assessment →
- $59.39Estimated yearly increase in city tax on a $610,000 residence (city notice)Centerville raises property tax rate for insurance, a police job and a fire assessment →
- $2.4 millionMaximum interfund loan authorized for the Water Fund in the FY2027 budgetCenterville's budget authorizes up to a $2.4 million loan for the Main Street waterline →
- $67,608.65Approved purchase price of CenterPoint Theatre emergency-radio system (Aug. 18, 2026)Centerville agency approves $67,608.65 emergency-radio system for CenterPoint Theatre →
- $206,605.72Legacy Crossing tax-increment distribution for 2024 approved May 20, 2025Centerville approved Legacy Crossing incentive after theater missed its ticket threshold →
- $1.96 millionPaid to ESI ENGINEERING, the city's largest payee in FY2026, as reported to the stateTransparent Utah: Centerville City highest-paid vendors FY2026 →
Redevelopment money
Centerville approved Legacy Crossing incentive after theater missed its ticket threshold
In May 2025, Centerville's redevelopment agency first tabled, then approved, a $206,605.72 tax-increment distribution to the Legacy Crossing developer for 2024 after staff reported the theater sold 421,623 tickets against a 500,000-ticket condition. A June 2026 agenda listed a fifth amendment to the agreement.
Budgets, reserves and taxes
Centerville's budget authorizes up to a $2.4 million loan for the Main Street waterline
Centerville's fiscal 2027 budget authorizes an interfund loan of up to $2.4 million from the Capital Projects Fund to the Water Fund. The May budget message tied the loan to replacing an aging Main Street waterline and proposed a 7% water rate increase to repay it.
Centerville raises property tax rate for insurance, a police job and a fire assessment
Centerville's council voted 4–1 on Aug. 25 to set its General Fund property tax rate at 0.001314 and adopt its fiscal 2027 budget. The city's notice projected $369,103 more a year, a 15.61% increase in the city's property tax revenue.
Contracts and spending
Centerville agency approves $67,608.65 emergency-radio system for CenterPoint Theatre
On Aug. 18, Centerville's redevelopment agency and its administrative control board approved buying an emergency-responder radio system for CenterPoint Theatre from Day Wireless, using RDA reserve funds under the theater's lease. Councilmember Rick Bangerter dissented, preferring to seek state funding first.