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Senate advances annexation bill aimed at Salt Lake County, sparking debate over employee protections and local control
Summary
Senate Bill 52, which would streamline negotiated annexations in Salt Lake County and require votes by affected unincorporated residents, was advanced to third reading after extended debate over employee assimilation, school-district boundary impacts and protections for residents of unincorporated areas.
The Utah Senate advanced Senate Bill 52 on a voice vote to move the measure to the third-reading calendar after an extended floor debate about annexation rules for Salt Lake County.
Senator Mont Evans, the bill sponsor, said the measure would allow municipalities and the county to negotiate annexations and, if they met statutory conditions, proceed without boundary commission review. ‘‘We—ve bent over backwards to deal with employees who might be impacted by these jurisdictions,’’ Evans said, and the bill would require a vote of people in any unincorporated…
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