Council opens FY 2025-26 budget hearings, refers them to June 3; ends Budget Amendment No. 5 with an arts legislative intent
May 20, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
The Council held a combined public hearing on the mayor's FY 2025-26 budget package and 12 speakers raised capital project requests such as trail maintenance, traffic safety and tree care; it continued the hearing to June 3 (7-0). It closed Budget Amendment No. 5 by declining two Council-added items and adding a legislative intent for district arts projects. It also adopted a Library Fund budget amendment and a Pride Month resolution. Council Member Puy was absent for the opening LBA and CRA business.
From the approved minutes. Updated October 14, 2026.
Decisions at a glance
| Item | Result |
|---|---|
| LBA and CRA FY 2025-26 budget hearings | Continued · 6-0 |
| Pride Month resolution | Approved · 6-0 |
| Public hearing: four grant applications | Continued · 7-0 |
| Library Budget Amendment No. 2, FY 2024-25 | Approved · 7-0 |
| Public hearing: FY 2025-26 city budget package | Continued · 7-0 |
| Budget Amendment No. 5, FY 2024-25: Council-added items | Approved with conditions · 6-1 |
| Consent agenda | Approved · 7-0 |
Agenda, item by item
Item B.1 / D.1 · Budget
LBA and CRA FY 2025-26 budget hearings
Continued · 6-0
Meeting as the Local Building Authority and the Community Reinvestment Agency, the Council held hearings on their final FY 2025-26 budgets (the LBA fund covers debt service for the Glendale and Marmalade libraries). No one spoke and both were referred to new hearings June 3. Council Member Puy was absent from these votes.
Item F.3 · Other
Pride Month resolution
Approved · 6-0
The Council adopted Resolution 13 of 2025 celebrating June 2025 as Pride Month. Council Member Lopez Chavez read it and the Utah Pride Center's executive director thanked the Council. Council Member Puy was absent.
Item G.1-G.4 · Budget
Public hearing: four grant applications
Continued · 7-0
Heard as one hearing: Police Department application to the Utah Office for Victims of Crime to fund 50% of two full-time and 80-90% of four part-time victim advocates; Public Lands application to the State Division of Outdoor Recreation to purchase about 10 acres for a Bonneville Shoreline trailhead; and two Community and Neighborhoods applications to the Department of Workforce Services, one for School Age Quality programming at six YouthCity sites and one for a teen afterschool prevention program. No one spoke; the Council referred them to a future consent agenda.
- GrantAmount not given to Utah Office for Victims of Crime
- GrantAmount not given to Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation
- GrantAmount not given to Utah Department of Workforce Services
Item G.5 · Budget
Library Budget Amendment No. 2, FY 2024-25
Approved · 7-0
The Council adopted Ordinance 29 of 2025 amending the Library Fund budget for the required annual true-ups of property tax increments that go to the Utah Inland Port Authority, the Convention Center Hotel and the Community Reinvestment Agency. No one spoke.
Item G.6-G.20 · Budget
Public hearing: FY 2025-26 city budget package
Continued · 7-0
One hearing covered the mayor's recommended budget ordinances: the city and Library Fund budgets, the property tax levy, the consolidated fee schedule, pay for elected and statutory officers and non-represented employees, funding for AFSCME and firefighter union agreements, code changes on city vehicles, parking enforcement, Public Services and Community and Neighborhoods responsibilities, Sustainability Department and Title 17 utilities, the Capital Improvement Program, and Addendum No. 9 to the UTA interlocal agreement for frequent bus service. Speakers asked to move $3 million from Green Loop funds to foothill trail maintenance and fire stations, requested speed bumps, safety measures and traffic circles in Fairpark, Sugar House, District 4 and near the University of Utah, asked for completion of trails for mountain bikers and hikers, asked for funding of Main and Broadway shade and repairs to a 1200 East island, and proposed a safety set-aside in the CIP process. The Council referred the items to a new hearing June 3.
Item H.1 · Budget
Budget Amendment No. 5, FY 2024-25: Council-added items
Approved with conditions · 6-1
After friendly amendments by Council Members Puy, Young and Wharton, the Council voted 6-1 not to adopt item I-2 (Mead Avenue underpass contribution) and to adopt a legislative intent to allocate $14,000 ($2,000 per district) from fund balance to Community and Neighborhoods so the Arts Council can create a public arts program for small, fast district-based projects built on public-private partnerships, an equitable and transparent process and Council Member input, with a staff report by December 2025. Council Member Young voted no. The Council then voted 7-0 not to adopt item I-3 (Art in District 4) and close the amendment.
- Budget$14,000
Item L · Other
Consent agenda
Approved · 7-0
Approved: set a July 1 hearing on the Madsen Park alley closure at about 9 North Chicago Street; and appointments of Lilah Rosenfield, Michael Vela and Jeffrey Barrett to the Planning Commission (terms ending May 20, 2029) and Esther Daranciang to the Bicycle Advisory Committee (term ending May 20, 2028).
What residents said
Neighborhood traffic safetyTrail access and maintenanceWildfire risk in City Creek watershed
Speakers raised a request to pause construction for an environmental impact study, statewide prison reform and safety near parks, non-camera safety measures, federal building accountability, thanks for the Calm Your Streets program and an upcoming community meeting on the We Connect program, and wildfire risk in the City Creek watershed after a dry winter.