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Communities Millcreek

Unlike Salt Lake or Holladay, the County is Millcreek's city. The County raises all its municipal funds and directly provides all its municipal services. Because I am the County Council representative for the Millcreek area, I have focused most of my Council time on Millcreek issues.

• Events and Newsletters – Hopefully you have come out to Venture Outdoors, the Movie Nights, the Luau at Wheeler Park and Holloween in Canyon Rim Park. These are new County-funded events that are beginning to build Millcreek into a real community. Watch for your monthly newsletter in the Valley Journal.
• Sidewalks and Traffic Calming – after years of neglect, we have expanded funding by 4 times. Please let me know what your street needs.
• Community Councils – we have added hundreds of thousands of dollars to community council budgets for things like Venture Outdoors and allowed the councils to start hiring their own staff support.
• East Mill Creek Center – we added significant funding to the County's plans for Evergreen, moving the fire station to a nearby location and expanding a new combination recreation center, senior center, library and community center. Final plans are coming together this year.

Cottonwood Heights

It has been wonderful to see the City of Cottonwood Heights come together. From the Rec Center to the Butlerville Day Parade to the new Police force... an already great community is getting better still. I am happy to have played a few (very) small parts:

• Start-up Funding – when the City was organized, the County municipal services funds were in surplus. Cottonwood Heights residents had paid in to help raise those funds and so when Cottonwood Heights left the County, I fought to make sure that the city received its share – $2.8 million.
• Parks. A couple of years ago we secured the funding and Cottonwood Heights now has a new park along Wasatch Blvd – and another one with a trailhead on the way.
• Cottonwood Rec Center – too often over the years, County-wide funding has skipped over the Rec Center because local residents support it. This past year, however, we funded some major renovations from the ZAP fund.

Holladay

Holladay is a beautiful community with limitless potential. My family and I live just south of Olympus High School, and we love the neighborhood. In the past few years I have been glad to help the city in a few small ways:

• Cottonwood Mall - even with the mall becoming deserted, getting the new RDA funding to rebuild it was touch and go. Great credit goes to Mayor Webb for his vision and effort. Now the new development will become the anchor for our area.
• Park Land – unfortunately, public land is very hard to come by in Holladay. That is why we were so eager to help secure the park space next to the new City Hall.

Salt Lake City

In our County's most-developed community, we were still able to make several major contributions these past few years:

• Acquiring open space near the H Rock and at Perkins Flat
• Securing right of way and funding to expand the PRATT trail
• Approval of an Immigration Canyon Trails Plan