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Murray RDA approves reimbursement for Cherry Street detention basin and dissolves project area
Summary
The RDA board and city council approved using remaining Cherry Street RDA funds to reimburse city stormwater work on a detention basin at 4580 S. Cherry St., then voted to dissolve the Cherry Street Neighborhood Development Project area after the final projects are completed.
The Murray City Redevelopment Agency board and city council on April 21 approved spending the last of the Cherry Street project-area funds to reimburse the city’s storm-water division for design and construction costs of a detention basin at 4580 South Cherry Street, then moved to formally dissolve the redevelopment area once the final work is complete.
Chad Wilkinson, who presented the item to both the RDA and council, said the basin will receive stormwater from Cherry Street and adjacent blocks and that state law requires a finding that an expenditure outside the RDA collection area benefits the project area. “The storm drain from Cherry Street will flow into that detention basin,” he said, recommending the board approve a resolution making the required finding and a separate resolution authorizing reimbursement to the storm-water division.
Board members and councilors voted unanimously to approve the reimbursement agreement and the finding. The council then adopted an ordinance dissolving the Cherry Street Neighborhood Development Project area, which was created in 1991 and whose collection period ended in 2023. Wilkinson said the project area had met its objectives: storm-drain, sewer, street and sidewalk improvements that helped raise taxable value by 1,970% since 1991, according to the consultant’s report cited in the meeting.
Brenda Moore, who presented the budget context at the RDA meeting, told the board that the Cherry Street fund balance left about $42,000 for the final reimbursement and that an additional separate Fire Clay low-income housing set-aside needed more budget authority from other funds. At the council meeting staff noted the county must complete administrative steps after the council’s dissolution vote to finalize the tax-district removal.
What happens next: staff will record the dissolution with county offices and return any procedural items required by law; the detention-basin work was already underway, and the approved reimbursement covers design and some construction costs. Council and RDA votes were unanimous.
