Board proposes weekday-only counts and appeals process as starting point in transportation utility fee talks

Cameron Hill, league staff, told the board on Tuesday that officers will meet later this week with legislators and representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to negotiate the transportation utility fee (TUF) framework.

“The Supreme Court ruled this was a fee, not a tax,” Hill said, summarizing the legal backdrop and why the legislature asked stakeholders for good-faith alternatives.

Hill and other staff outlined a multi-part proposal the board asked officers to present to negotiators: define a subcategory of large institutional or “religious/charitable” users; for that subcategory use weekday-only traffic counts (excluding lower-impact days such as Sunday) to calculate trip generation; require a local appeals process so users can challenge a fee they consider unreasonable; and explicitly preserve the constitutional…