PROVO Utah County commissioners on Wednesday voted to cut back about 25% of a property tax increase that was approved in late 2019, resulting in a nearly $5 million reduction in overall property tax collection.
While the motion to reduce the property tax was approved by the commission s two members, Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee said in a statement afterward that the reduction will not result in any layoffs among county employees. In addition, he said modifications made to a budgeting model Wednesday account for possible future new jobs, as well as wage increases and benefit needs among county employees over the next decade.
Utah County commissioners approve partial repeal of 2019 property tax increase
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In this screenshot taken from the Utah County Government’s YouTube channel, Utah County Clerk/Auditor Amelia Powers Gardner, inset, urges Utah County commissioners Bill Lee and Tom Sakievich not to vote to move budget oversight out of her office, blasting them for proposing such a “major” structural change with barely 24 hours notice. The commissioners voted soon after to approve the change in the public meeting on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
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High-ranking state officials as well as local leaders from Utah County are seething at a Wednesday vote by county commissioners to sweep budget oversight away from the county’s independently elected clerk/auditor and place it solely under the commission.
Fireworks fly in Utah County over commission’s ‘power grab’ of budgetary oversight Katie McKellar © YouTube In this screenshot taken from the Utah County Government’s YouTube channel, Utah County Clerk/Auditor Amelia Powers Gardner, inset, urges Utah County commissioners Bill Lee and Tom Sakievich not to vote to move budget oversight out of her office, blasting them for proposing such a “major” structural change with barely 24 hours notice. The commissioners voted soon after to approve the change in the public meeting on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
High-ranking state officials as well as local leaders from Utah County are seething at a Wednesday vote by county commissioners to sweep budget oversight away from the county’s independently elected clerk/auditor and place it solely under the commission.