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Midvale council advances tentative FY2027 budget and weighs an 8.3% public‑safety tax increase
Summary
Midvale presented its tentative FY2027 budget and a proposed public‑safety property‑tax increase to raise roughly $778,000; the increase would fund public safety and appears likely to trigger truth‑in‑taxation hearings this summer. Council discussed a one‑time $45,000 request for the Boys & Girls Club and asked staff to clarify impacts before final adoption.
The Midvale City Council on June 2 reviewed a tentative fiscal year 2027 budget and discussed a proposed public‑safety property‑tax increase that would generate roughly $777,786 in new revenue.
Finance officer Mariah Hill presented the budget as a working document that includes structural accounting shifts and a proposed 3% cost‑of‑living adjustment and market adjustments for staff. She said general‑fund revenues are approximately $24 million, down in part because a homeless mitigation funding stream was reallocated into the public‑safety fund.
Hill described the public‑safety proposal as an 8.26% increase in the city’s property‑tax rate tied to public‑safety costs, adding an estimated $5.50 per year for the average primary residential property and about $10.11 for comparable commercial property. She said updated contract numbers and additional state mitigation funds have reduced the original request, and that final certified tax numbers from Salt Lake County were still pending.
Council members asked staff to show precisely how the tax change would affect typical properties and to quantify the service tradeoffs if the increase was not approved. Hill said that without the increase the city would need to reduce one precinct officer position from Unified Police Department staffing plans.
During the budget discussion council also considered a one‑time request from the Boys & Girls Club. Jamie Dunn, acting CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake, asked the council for a $45,000 one‑time contribution to cover a recent loss of federal funding and to serve an additional 15–20 youth per day. Hill said the request could be funded from one‑time use of fund balance and would not change the proposed property‑tax increase.
Next steps: staff will post updated property‑tax impact information when county valuations are certified and the council will hold the required truth‑in‑taxation public hearing and subsequent final budget adoption in August.
