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The first three town hall meetings on the Community Preservation elections facing unincorporated Salt Lake County residents this November will take place this week.
Residents of Copperton, Emigration Canyon and Millcreek will get the first chance to ask questions and voice opinions about the change-in-governance vote, which will give people living in the valley's six townships a choice between living in a metro township or a city.
A second question will ask voters whether the prevailing city or township should join a metropolitan service district being created by the county to carry out public-works duties such as snowplowing, street lighting, and planning and zoning.
Residents of four dozen islands of unincorporated land also face a decision: to stay unincorporated and keep getting county services, or to annex into an adjacent city, the primary candidates being Sandy, Cottonwood Heights and South Jordan.
This week's meetings, which all run from 6:30 to 8 p.m., are:
• Tuesday at the Bingham Canyon Lions Club, 320 Hillcrest Street, Bingham Canyon.
• Wednesday at the Unified Fire Authority station, 5025 Emigration Canyon Road.
• Thursday at Skyline High, 3251 E. 3760 South, in Millcreek.
These meetings also will be the first in which county officials can explain the financial impacts of the township-versus-city and annex-or-stay-independent issues facing voters in the communities.
Zions Bank Public Finance recently analyzed the cost of providing municipal services in each township and the current revenues available to pay for that service delivery under different scenarios.
In general, the report found the financial feasibility of the municipal services district "relies heavily on the participation of the three largest [townships] — Kearns, Magna and Millcreek. ... Costs for the smaller metro townships/new cities increase significantly without the participation of the larger metro townships/new cities."
The report added that "costs decrease for each of the metro townships/new cities and the remaining unincorporated county from participating together for the provision of municipal-type services."
The County Council looks likely to approve the creation of the municipal service district at its Tuesday meeting. The district should be revenue-neutral, officials have said, essentially being a funding mechanism for the leaders of future metro townships and participating cities to contract for services from the county's workforce through interlocal agreements.
This revamped structure will get the county out of the dual role of being a municipal government for the unincorporated areas while managing countywide affairs for those areas plus the valley's 17 cities. Sometimes, those interests don't coincide, leaving county officials in dicey positions.
But, overall, plan architect county Mayor Ben McAdams sees the Community Preservation vote as a means of ending decades of local-government border disputes. Eliminating those annexation and incorporation battles once and for all, he believes, will provide the future political stability needed to promote economic development in heretofore neglected unincorporated areas.
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