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Local activist group criticizes county fair funding and fee waivers during public comment
Summary
A speaker for the Box Elder Committee of Liberty urged the commission to stop subsidizing the county fair and criticized public education funding and property taxes during the public-comment period.
During the meeting’s public-comment period, Deanna Hardy, representing the Box Elder Committee of Liberty, urged the commission to stop funding the Box Elder County Fair and criticized fee waivers and public education funding. She said the fair should operate as a "free market" event and argued that residents should not be forced to subsidize entertainment for others.
Hardy referenced a recent fee waiver granted to the Box Elder School District for use of the fairgrounds Fine Arts Building and cited a 2025 fundraising total of $28,000. "If you do not attend, you should not pay," she said, adding broader objections to property taxes and public-school funding directed at the commission. The comment period is advisory; no commission action on the fair’s funding was recorded during the meeting.
