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Council discusses WFRC grant prospects and city funding constraints
Summary
Council members discussed applying to Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) for planning funds and the limits of the city's community reinvestment increment; staff cautioned that WFRC often bundles projects and that some grant thresholds may exclude smaller proposals.
Council members asked how the city might pay for a small-area plan and whether WFRC would fund the scope they wanted to pursue. Ben recommended reaching out to WFRC early to confirm thresholds and to consider combining a city-center plan with a corridor/transportation piece to strengthen an application. "I would call WFRC and ask them this. I think you might be below the project value for them," Ben said, warning that the regional council sometimes favors larger or bundled projects.
A staff member identified as Dixon described the city's CRA/URA increment situation when asked how well funded the agency is. Dixon said the increment collected was unclear in the meeting transcript but provided approximate figures: "I wanna say the increment that we collected is 3 to 400. That's 72,000." Council members and the consultant discussed that if WFRC funding is not available, the city should still pursue broad stakeholder engagement to produce a marketable plan and consider staged work.
