Salt Lake City leaders are mulling the idea of bringing back ranked-choice voting in 2023. If they do, it will be used to decide the city s mayor for the first time ever.
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The Salt Lake City Council selected Dennis Faris to fill its District 2 seat, representing the southern end of the city’s west side and some of its most diverse neighborhoods, including Glendale, Fairpark and Poplar Grove.
“My life journey here has been very unexpected,” Faris said in his presentation. “From being a young Hispanic child on public assistance, to following in my father’s footsteps by enlisting in the U.S. Air Force during the first Gulf War right after high school, to being here today.”
Faris’ appointment means he will serve until Jan. 3, 2022. Voters then will select a candidate to fill out the remainder of Johnston’s term, which expires in 2024, at the municipal election in November.
SALT LAKE CITY The fight over having residents vote on the historic status of a pair of downtown Salt Lake City theaters is now headed to court.
The leaders of a group seeking to preserve the two landmarks filed a lawsuit against the city after they were told both of their efforts to put an initiative asking residents to vote on providing historic status for the structures didn t qualify for the November election.
Casey McDonough and Michael Valentine, both from Salt Lake City and lead members of the group Save the Pantages Theatre, filed the lawsuit in 3rd District Court on Friday. It lists Salt Lake City recorder Cindy Lou Trishman, Salt Lake City attorney Katherine Lewis, and the city as respondents of the lawsuit.
SALT LAKE CITY The fight over having residents vote on the historic status of a pair of downtown Salt Lake City theaters is now headed to court.
The leaders of a group seeking to preserve the two landmarks filed a lawsuit against the city after they were told both of their efforts to put an initiative asking residents to vote on providing historic status for the structures didn t qualify for the November election.
Casey McDonough and Michael Valentine, both from Salt Lake City and lead members of the group Save the Pantages Theatre, filed the lawsuit in 3rd District Court on Friday. It lists Salt Lake City recorder Cindy Lou Trishman, Salt Lake City attorney Katherine Lewis, and the city as respondents of the lawsuit.