A preview of Salt Lake City’s 2012 budget shows a slight increase in revenue, but the bright spots are being overshadowed by rising health insurance and skyrocketing fuel costs. The city will likely budget for a modest increase in sales tax revenue, and more revenue from commercial permits, but Mayor Ralph Becker says it will take a lot more to bring the city back to pre-recession numbers.
Salt Lake City’s “Complete Streets” efforts are coming into focus. The city council last night discussed some specific initiatives for making city streets bike, pedestrian and driver friendly. KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports.
The Salt Lake City Planning Division is proposing to cap the number of parking spots at future developments as part of an effort to get more people to take public transit, ride a bike or carpool to work. Principal Planner Nick Britton says in theory, if there’s less parking, companies have more of an incentive to offer their employees alternative ways of getting to work, like public transit passes or priority parking for carpoolers.
Salt Lake City was the target of a moratorium on local historic districts during the legislative session, creating a conflict between residents and lawmakers. We got Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker’s thoughts on what the legislature did this year.
Eight Salt Lake City based non-profits received $1 million dollars from Walmart today as part of the company’s Fighting Hunger Together campaign.
Salt Lake City Councilman Soren Simonsen claims the criminal charges he’s facing in the state of Washington won’t impact his ability to serve on the city council. The Salt Lake Tribune reported the councilman was charged after breaking a window to remove a personal item from a cottage his former business partner was renting.
A new analysis from the Utah Legislature estimates a bill aimed at catching undocumented immigrants would cost local cities and counties in Utah between $5 and $11 million per year. KCPW’s Jeff Robinson spoke with Salt Lake City Councilman Carlton Christensen about his concerns.
Salt Lake City and County leaders were taken by surprise when the federal government gave Chevron the green light to re-start its pipeline running through Salt Lake City, following two oil spills since last June. But after talking with Chevron and federal regulators, Mayors Ralph Becker and Peter Corroon gave their blessing for it to resume operations Tuesday morning.
Downtown Salt Lake City Councilman Luke Garrott is not afraid to be the lone voice of opposition on the council. When others are willing to say yes to a controversial plan or initiative, he often says no. We asked Garrott what defines his politics and his plans for the future.
New management changes go into effect this week at the Salt Lake City Public Library system but not everyone is seeing eye-to-eye on why the changes are taking place.
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