Council unanimously adopts the 2021-22 budget, a 2% pay increase and a .004076 property tax rate
June 15, 2021, 7:00 p.m. · Electronic meeting
Sitting also as the Local Building Authority and Redevelopment Agency, the council adopted the fiscal 2021-22 budget and 2020-21 Budget Amendment No. 9 on 7-0 votes. It set the property tax rate at .004076, approved $37.4 million for capital programs and debt service, a 2% raise for non-represented employees and a new Public Lands Department. It also adopted the RDA budget, held a hearing on eight grant applications and passed a Juneteenth resolution.
From the approved minutes. Updated October 14, 2026.
Decisions at a glance
Agenda, item by item
Item B1 · Budget
Resolution 3 of 2021: Local Building Authority fiscal 2021-22 budget
Approved · 6-0
The board adopted the final 2021-22 budget for the Local Building Authority's capital projects fund, which covers bond debt service on the Glendale and Marmalade libraries.
Item D1 · Budget
Resolution 11 of 2021: Redevelopment Agency budget amendment No. 1 for fiscal 2020-21
Approved · 7-0
The agency board amended its 2020-21 budget to adjust property tax increment revenue to actual amounts, add funding for Station Center infrastructure in the Depot District, set aside money for a to-be-decided catalytic development on North Temple and a new community and cultural initiative in the Granary District. The Granary funding goes into a holding account.
Item D2 · Budget
Resolution 12 of 2021: Redevelopment Agency budget for fiscal 2021-22
Approved · 7-0
The board adopted the agency's 2021-22 budget and approved $2,947,019 in capital projects that do not lapse to fund balance and will return to the board as specific proposals are ready. They include $751,367 for storefront and commercial revitalization (holding account), $100,000 for a Regent Street parking structure reserve, $332,179 for Station Center infrastructure, $200,000 for environmental cleanup at Station Center Sites 3 and 4, $443,731 for a Granary District community initiative, $319,742 on North Temple (school fund and strategic interventions), $350,000 for Northwest Quadrant shared costs, $200,000 for a sustainability technical assistance program and $250,000 for Gallivan repairs.
- Budget$2.95 million
Item D3 · Other
Redevelopment Agency legislative intent statements
Approved · 7-0
The board adopted two intent statements: that RDA loans and investments require energy efficiency standards, and that the board review the structure of RDA accounts, fund balances and prior capital projects. Staff noted the city's ERP system could help track this information.
Item F2 · Other
Resolution 22 of 2021: Juneteenth
Approved · 7-0
The council and mayor adopted a joint resolution recognizing June 19, 2021 as Juneteenth Freedom Day in Salt Lake City. A representative of the NAACP thanked the council.
Item G1-G8 · Contract
Eight grant applications (public hearing)
Continued · 7-0
The council heard the applications as one hearing: a UDOT active transportation grant for a bridge or tunnel for the 9-Line Trail over the railroad at about 650 West; a UDOT grant for a one-mile paved Red Butte Creek trail with an underpass at Foothill Drive; a US Conference of Mayors police reform grant to expand the mental health co-responder program; a Governor's Office of Economic Development grant for a Rose Park bicycle pump track near the Day-Riverside Library; a grant for self-serve kayak lockers on the Jordan River; a state Office for Victims of Crime grant for a domestic violence victim advocate; a Wasatch Front Regional Council grant for a social impact bond study; and a Utah Department of Public Safety grant for 100 traffic cones and 50 barricades. Speakers raised scooters, the 900 South crossing, tree and bird impacts of the Red Butte trail, consultant spending, and police funding. The hearing was closed and the items referred to a future consent agenda.
Item H1 · Budget
Ordinance 24 of 2021: Library Fund budget amendment No. 2 for 2020-21
Approved · 7-0
The council amended the Library Fund budget, raising the Library's General Fund budget to account for pass-through property tax revenue collected by Salt Lake County that goes to the Utah Inland Port Authority and the Convention Facility.
Item H2 · Budget
Ordinance 25 of 2021: Budget Amendment No. 9 for fiscal 2020-21
Approved · 7-0
The council adopted the ninth amendment to the 2020-21 budget, with items A-1 to A-4 pulled before submission. It includes $293,067 for a Fire emergency management office build-out, $41,138 for a 911 security platform, a $510,828 police impact fee refund, $8,695,770 moved to the CIP fund, $605,435 for Fire COVID costs, $230,683 for wildland and search-and-rescue deployments, $55,365 in county money for the Gilmer Drive intersection, and Council-added items: a $1,193,000 ARPA reimbursement to the General Fund for eligible employee bonuses and re-scoping the remaining Salt Laker Card money to allow second $500 payments, $1,000 new cards and nonprofit administration costs. Budgeting for inland port and convention hotel tax revenue is shown at $0.
- Budget$293,067
- Budget$510,828
- Budget$8.70 million
- Budget$605,435
- Grant$55,365 to Salt Lake County
- Budget$1.19 million
Item H3-H14 (1) · Budget
Ordinance 32 of 2021: fiscal year 2021-22 city budget
Approved · 7-0
The council adopted the 2021-22 budget and staffing document as shown on the key changes spreadsheets, excluding the Library Fund and the capital and debt schedule.
Item H3-H14 (2) · Budget
Ordinance 33 of 2021: Library Fund budget for 2021-22
Approved · 7-0
The council adopted the Library Fund budget for fiscal 2021-22.
Item H3-H14 (3) · Taxes and fees
Ordinance 34 of 2021: property tax rates for 2021-22
Approved · 7-0
The council set the total property tax rate at .004076 per dollar of taxable value: .002854 for the General Fund ($88,819,132 ongoing), .000014 judgment levy ($433,129 one-time), .000556 for general obligation bond repayment ($17,315,863), .000649 for the Library Fund ($20,979,219) and .000003 Library judgment levy ($83,554 one-time). The chair was authorized to sign state tax commission documents.
- Fee$88.8 million
- Fee$17.3 million
- Fee$21.0 million
Item H3-H14 (4) · Budget
Capital improvement program transfer and debt service
Approved · 7-0
The council approved $37,355,406 to be transferred into the capital improvement program, including $8,572,651 for annual debt service and other ongoing commitments, excluding the first-year payment on a proposed new sales tax bond (Series 2022). Funding for individual projects and the bond will be considered later in the year.
- Budget$37.4 million
- Budget$8.57 million
Item H3-H14 (5) · Other
Budget legislative intent statements
Approved · 7-0
The council adopted five intents: propose a boarded-building fee covering the city's full response costs; give a strategy for evaluating expansion of the Trips-to-Transit program; provide Golf Fund financial and capital information and a review of barriers to food and beverage service at golf courses; expand the Funding Our Future public safety definition to include social workers and non-emergency traffic enforcement under the alternative response model; and estimate the cost to maintain public lands.
Item H3-H14 (6) · Budget
Ordinances 26 through 31 of 2021: labor appropriations, pay plan, public way and reorganization
Approved · 7-0
The council adopted six ordinances: appropriations for the AFSCME Local 1004, Firefighters Local 81 and Salt Lake Police Association agreements (26 to 28); the 2021-22 non-represented employee compensation plan with a 2% salary increase (29); an amendment to Chapter 14.32 on construction and excavation in the public right-of-way (30); and organizational changes including creation of a Public Lands Department (31).
Item L1 · Zoning
Set July 13 hearing on rezone and master plan amendment at 850 and 870 East 2100 South (consent)
Approved · 7-0
The council set a July 13 hearing on the Sugar House rezone from CC to CSHBD2 and the master plan map change (petitions PLNPCM2020-00906 and 00925).
Item L2 · Zoning
Set July 13 hearing on rezone and master plan amendment at 810 East 800 South (consent)
Approved · 7-0
The council set a July 13 hearing on rezoning a parcel from R-2 to CB and changing the Central Community plan from Low Density Residential to Community Commercial.
Item L3-L6 · Appointment
Board appointments and fee schedule hearing date (consent)
Approved · 7-0
The council appointed Meggie Troili and Tiffini Porter to the Art Design Board (terms to June 15, 2024), William Davis to the Housing Authority (to June 15, 2025) and Justin Rodriguez to the Police Civilian Review Board (to September 2, 2024), and set a July 13 hearing on the consolidated fee schedule amendments.
What residents said
Foothills trails reviewScooter rental companiesMosquito Abatement DistrictNorth Temple business district cleanupPolice staffing
Grant hearing speakers raised scooters, the 900 South crossing, tree and bird impacts on the Red Butte trail, and police funding. Comment speakers asked for North Temple cleanup, supported Bird scooters, urged an outside review before releasing Foothills trails funds, and questioned the Mosquito Abatement District; one raised police staffing and Miller Park trees.