- Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall proposes a record $512.4M budget.
- The budget focuses on public safety, infrastructure and affordable housing with potential fee increases but no tax hikes.
- Economic uncertainty are key concerns for the city as it plans its budget.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s capital city general fund could surpass $500 million for the first time this year, but Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall warns that her proposed city budget is also “shaped by economic uncertainty.”
The mayor revealed her proposed $512.4 million budget during her annual address to the Salt Lake City Council on Tuesday, a potential 6.7% increase from the previous year.
But that was after she referenced a “volatile” stock market and “fluctuating” tariffs mixed with increasing costs and a declining consumer sentiment index that she says the city will have to monitor closely…