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Monday, August 15, 2016

Bond Election For Garden City Rec Center Set

Anita Weston, reporter
Rich Civic Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  August 11, 2016.  Resolution #R16-04 reads:  A resolution providing for the holding of a Bond Election in the Town of Garden City, Utah, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of the Town the question of issuance and sale of $6,300,000 General Obligation Bonds; providing for the holding of a public hearing and the publication of a Notice of Public Hearing; declaring official intent with respect to certain expenditures; and providing for related matters.

The above paragraph is the actual resolution written and used to inform all individuals who live in the Garden City Limits that are registered voters that the City is going to obtain a bond in the amount of $6,300,000 to build a recreation center in the City.  The bond will be for the duration of 20 years.  This will increase the amount of money added to the collection of taxes for the average resident by approximately $158.00 each year.  This money will be used to repay the bond over the 20 year time period.

The Council wanted everyone who is a registered voter to know that the decision to build or not build the recreation center is to be decided by ballot at the coming November election.  The City has hired a bonding company to take care of all of the legal matters dealing with the obtaining of this bond.  Mr. John Crandall from the bonding company was present at the meeting to make sure everyone understood what steps will be followed in order to meet all legal requirements leading up to the election.  There was a list of steps that will be taken between now and November that must be followed.

Most of the information and documents concerning this proposed building project are available on the internet.  For more details, go to the Utah Public Notice Board.  You will need to then select the City, Garden City, then City Council.  You can then scroll down to information placed there by the City for this August meeting.  


2 comments:

Maureen said...

So, does that mean those of us who own property here but are registered voters somewhere else (probably a majority), will have no actual say over the proposed facility and tax increase?

Maureen said...

So, does that mean those of us who own property here but are registered voters somewhere else (probably a majority), will have no actual say over the proposed facility and tax increase?