Auditing South Salt Lake
The Ledger's review of South Salt Lake's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money. Every story in the series, sorted by subject, with the figures the records show and links to the official documents.
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Auditing South Salt Lake: what the city's own records show about its money
A records-only look at South Salt Lake's audited report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2025, and its fiscal 2027 budget process: net position, the General Fund, debt, the sewer fund, the audit opinion and the redevelopment agency.
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- $68.5 millionTotal debt outstanding at June 30, 2025Auditing South Salt Lake: what the city's own records show about its money →
- $6.47 millionUnassigned General Fund balance at June 30, 2025Auditing South Salt Lake: what the city's own records show about its money →
- $7.45 millionSewer fund unrestricted deficit at June 30, 2025South Salt Lake's sewer fund deficit and the September sewer fee ordinance →
- $1.84 millionProposed additional annual property tax revenue, public safety levy (proposal)South Salt Lake proposed a 12.99% property tax revenue increase for public safety →
- $1.71Proposed monthly residential transportation utility fee from July 1, 2026 (draft)South Salt Lake's transportation utility fee: business complaints and a proposal to add homes →
- $40.7 millionSeries 2024 sales tax revenue bond principal for the public works campusSouth Salt Lake's public works campus: a $40.7 million bond for a $38 million project →
Debt and bonds
South Salt Lake's public works campus: a $40.7 million bond for a $38 million project
South Salt Lake financed its new public works campus with Series 2024 sales tax revenue bonds of $40,665,000 in principal. The audited report puts the project's projected cost at about $38 million, and a February 2026 update set completion for June 2027.
Budgets, reserves and taxes
South Salt Lake's transportation utility fee: business complaints and a proposal to add homes
After 19 speakers objected to South Salt Lake's transportation utility fee in March 2026, the council took up ordinances that would add a $1.71 monthly residential charge and cut business rates by about 39%. The records reviewed don't show the final vote.
South Salt Lake proposed a 12.99% property tax revenue increase for public safety
South Salt Lake's Truth in Taxation notice proposed $1,839,537 in additional annual property tax revenue for its public safety levy, an increase of 12.99% over the prior year's budgeted property tax revenue. A hearing was held Aug. 11, 2026.
South Salt Lake's sewer fund deficit and the September sewer fee ordinance
The city's fiscal 2025 audit shows a $7.45 million unrestricted deficit in the sewer fund, tied in part to Central Valley's 2024 sewer bonds, and says sewer rates will need to rise. A sewer fee ordinance was on the council's Sept. 9 and Sept. 23, 2026 agendas.
Contracts and spending
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