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Davis County approves tourism-fund lease payments to general fund for Western Sports Park land
Summary
The commission approved a resolution directing annual lease payments from the tourism fund to the general fund for land used exclusively for the Western Sports Park, beginning Jan. 1, 2025, with payments calculated from the 2024 assessed land value and continuing for at least 30 years.
The Davis County Commission on Tuesday adopted a resolution directing the tourism fund to make annual lease payments to the general fund for land used exclusively by the Western Sports Park, beginning Jan. 1, 2025, and continuing for a minimum of 30 years.
The resolution traces decades of prior county action: a 1968 general obligation bond to finance a county hospital left surplus proceeds that were used later, in 1988, to buy land near the Farmington public safety complex. In 2022 the county issued $50 million in sales tax revenue bonds and committed another $20 million in tourism tax dollars to develop a regional youth-sports destination on…
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