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Cottonwood Heights council adopts amended 2025–26 budget ordinance
Summary
The Cottonwood Heights City Council on Sept. 16 approved Ordinance 448, amending the fiscal-year 2025–26 budget to rebudget capital projects, add targeted general-fund spending for software and equipment, and transfer CDRA funds to capital projects.
The Cottonwood Heights City Council voted unanimously Sept. 16 to adopt Ordinance 448, approving amendments to the city’s fiscal-year 2025–26 budget that rebudgeted capital projects, added several general-fund expenditures, and moved tax-increment funds into capital projects.
Administrative and Fiscal Services Director Scott George outlined the adjustments during a public hearing. He said the general fund increases included a Granicus software purchase for short-term-rental analysis (presentation listed as $27.01 76), an unplanned heating-and-cooling compressor and accumulator replacement ($32,005.19), and additional IT storage to meet police video-evidence retention needs. Those general-fund expense increases were described as roughly $214,000, offset by about $384,000 in new revenues or transfers, yielding a net benefit of approximately $205,000 in the general fund.
In the capital projects fund, George described rebudgets for prior-year projects, listing about $22,000,000 in additional expenditures and $12,000,000 in additional revenue overall. He called out a Heights GO project near $15,000,000 of expenditures and road projects of roughly $7,635,000; he also described a $1,242,000 transfer from the CDRA (Community Development and Redevelopment Agency) fund into the capital projects fund to complete work in the Fort Union and Cottonwood corporate areas. George said $617,000 in tax-increment financing was available for the Canyon Center Park, plus another estimated $100,000–$150,000 to be available in the coming one to two years, and noted a sundown-sidewalk repair of about $61,000 to address trip hazards.
With no public testimony during the budget hearing, the council moved to action. Council member Sean Newell moved to approve Ordinance 448 and Council member Matt Holton seconded. Mayor Mike Wickers then called the roll; Council members Holton, Suzanne Hyland, Newell and Ellen Burrell each voted "yes," and the mayor also voted yes, carrying the ordinance.
What happens next: the ordinance as approved rebudgets capital work and authorizes the listed transfers and expenditures as part of the adopted amended budget for Jan. 2025 through June 30, 2026. Additional project-level details and supporting documentation were discussed in the city’s prior work session, which Scott George referenced for listeners seeking more granular figures.
