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Council workshop narrows budget priorities to five themes; staff to draft final priorities for March review
Summary
At a Feb. 11 Sandy City Council workshop, members and a facilitator identified five budget priorities — economic development, employee satisfaction, public safety (community safety), quality of life (including housing and transportation) and fiscal health — and asked staff to return with refined language for council consideration.
Sandy City Council members spent the evening of Feb. 11 in a facilitated budget priorities workshop to refine the council’s top policy guidance ahead of the mayor’s proposed budget.
The facilitator (identified in the transcript as the meeting’s consultant) and council reviewed a draft vision and five candidate priorities: economic development; employee satisfaction; public safety; quality of life; and fiscal health. Using a “fist‑to‑five” quick‑consensus exercise, council members expressed general support for all five priorities but asked staff to tighten language and add specific emphases in several areas.
On economic development, council members requested clearer language about what “invest in infrastructure” means and…
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