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Commission discussion considers using CRA housing funds to house county employees to aid retention
Summary
A proposal was raised to use CRA affordable-housing funds to buy housing for county employees — especially deputies — to help retain staff. Commissioners cited examples from other agencies, legal and optics questions, and said no formal decision was made.
Unidentified Speaker 1 (Unidentified speaker) proposed that the commission consider using CRA affordable-housing funds to purchase housing units county employees could live in as an incentive to stay. “If we took the affordable housing and we purchased housing for our employees where they could just live in it,” Speaker 1 said, suggesting modular or small homes as an option.
Speaker 3 (Unidentified speaker) responded with a recruitment example: “He has applications in with Utah County agencies because he can't find a home in Green River that he can afford,” noting that a deputy and his partner were considering…
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