Trace the decisions and financial records linked to Cedar City's projects. A budget, bond ceiling, contract authorization and actual payment describe different things.
No approval or denial linked in the records collected.
Money in the record
contract: $574,970 — Quichapa Wells rehabilitation bid, as listed on agenda; award not confirmed; contract: $801,365 — Quichapa Wells rehabilitation bid, as listed on agenda; award not confirmed Record → · Oct. 14, 2026
Signed agreement and payments
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Work and operating costs
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Cedar City's fund balance and reserve policy sets a general fund floor, a capital fund target and an enterprise fund standard. The Sept. 16 staff report and the policy text describe the general fund floor on different bases, and the adoption vote appears so far only in draft minutes.
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A proposed final change order on Cedar City's 100 East roadway project would raise the contract to $1,017,714.90. Staff attributes $69,296.07 to improvements along one property's frontage, and the funding table lists contributions from that property owner totaling the same amount.
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Cedar City's Oct. 7 staff table funded a well-rehabilitation project using the low bid on both contracts. The Oct. 14 consent agenda listed the second contract for the second-lowest bidder, $17,440 higher, after staff said its eligibility as a local bidder would be addressed at the meeting.
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Cedar City staff said in June that private donations would cover the new covered arena. An October staff table adds the metal building, a $396,762 construction bid and $95,242 in impact fees, leaving a $17,943 gap, and the council's Oct. 14 agenda included waiving some or all of those fees.
City hall
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Mayor Wayne Peterson proposed exploring a mapped utility corridor for Washington County on Oct. 14. The town has made no commitment, and residents urged the council to press Rocky Mountain Power for a route away from homes and farms.
· From Town of Leeds
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At its Oct. 21 work meeting the council advanced a 500,000-cubic-yard lease amendment, a first formal city budget policy and a $51,549 airport terminal camera contract.
· From Cedar City
Growth & construction
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The Planning Commission meets Nov. 5 and the County Commission Nov. 9 on a request to change the land from agriculture to industrial. A second hearing covers 13.54 acres near Cedar City.
· From Iron County
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Advising for owners, government-contracting counseling, free classes, employee training that the state pays for and a path for food startups. Each is run by a different agency, and none hands out cash on its own.
Salt Lake City International Airport from the air. File photo. Photo: Ron Reiring · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Salt Lake City had 19 flights and St. George nine, according to the nonprofit ICE Flight Monitor, which counts flights that move detainees between U.S. facilities.
· From KUER
Main Street in Cedar City, looking north, August 2011. File photo. Photo: DXR (Daniel Vorndran) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The city says 18 repeat samples from Oct. 21 to 23 were negative for E. coli, and it believes the first positive result came from localized contamination near the sampling spot.
· From Cedar City
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