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Lindon council reviews trimmed 2025-26 budget, focuses bonding on new well and delays larger street utility projects
Summary
At a budget work session councilors discussed a reduced capital plan, a proposed bond for a new municipal well and connections, proposed utility-rate increases and employee cost-of-living and merit adjustments; no final votes were taken.
City finance staff presented a revised 2025-26 draft budget Monday that reduces planned borrowing and refocuses capital spending on water infrastructure while deferring some street and utility projects.
Finance staff told council the tentative budget had included roughly $17 million in bonding for capital projects; the revised plan reduces that to about $5 million, with the largest single bonded item proposed for water: completion and equipping of Well Number 5 and the associated water-line connections. Public Works Director Juan (last name not provided) told council the well equip and building work was estimated between $2.5 million and $3.5 million and that connecting the well to the citys distribution network might add roughly $1 million.
The revised budget also holds an approximate $1.9 million…
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