- Salt Lake City Council now has a majority of women members for the first time since body was formed in 1980.
- Erika Carlsen is Salt Lake City’s newest council member.
- The council aims to address housing, environmental and other challenges in the city.
SALT LAKE CITY — Erika Carlsen felt honored and eager to get to work as she took the oath of office, becoming the newest member of the Salt Lake City Council Monday afternoon.
She also appreciated the piece of history she was setting in the moment.
Her term in office now gives the City Council a woman-majority membership for the first time since the current leadership model began in 1980, while maintaining the boards of recent milestones of majority-minority and LGBTQ representation. All of those are things she once never dreamed of seeing, much less participating in, when she grew up in Ogden…