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Herriman begins early budget discussions, staff recommends grading approach to clarify service levels
Summary
At a Oct. 22 work session, staff urged council to adopt a high‑level, iterative approach to the 2025 budget that grades departmental service levels and models trade‑offs live, citing constrained revenue, rising costs, and pending state mandates.
Speaker 3 opened the councilwork sessionwith a high‑level budget kickoff and urged council members to move policy conversations earlier in the process so choices are not made "in a vacuum." He described the exercise as a way to show how changes at the program level would flow into the budget and asked the council to focus first on clarifying priorities and acceptable service levels.
Why it matters: Herriman faces rising capital and operating costs across parks, streets and public safety while revenue growth is uncertain. Speaker 3 cited a Zions…
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