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Utah League of Cities and Towns urges maintaining local share of highway funds and quicker sales-tax transfers
Summary
Tom Stocks, president of the Utah League of Cities and Towns, urged lawmakers to keep a 60% state/40% local split of highway funds per a prior study, supported monthly sales-tax transfers to local governments (HB 69), and endorsed jail-study task force recommendations during a brief address to the House.
Tom Stocks, mayor of Moab and president of the Utah League of Cities and Towns, addressed the Utah House on Jan. 15 on behalf of hundreds of municipal officials gathered for League Day.
Stocks told representatives that about 230 municipal leaders representing more than 60 cities were on the Capitol grounds for the event. He urged the House to align highway distribution funding with the 1987 Wilbur Smith study (a 60% UDOT/40% local allocation), backed House Bill 69 to transfer sales-tax revenues monthly to local governments for improved cash flow, and asked lawmakers to adopt the recommendations of a jail-study task force for county jails.
Stocks also raised concerns about double taxation at the county level for municipal services and urged lawmakers to consider changes to truth-in-taxation calculations (averaging collection rates over three years). He invited members to the League’s luncheon and encouraged representatives to meet municipal officials from their districts during the event.
