SALT LAKE CITY A new webpage on the Salt Lake City government site aggregates resources, information and answers about homelessness in the city, including a chart listing how full each permanent shelter was the previous night.
On Feb. 10, the Geraldine E. King Women s Center; the Gail Miller Resource Center; the Men s Resource Center; and the St. Vincent de Paul Overflow Nightly Shelter were all at least at 90% capacity, according to information the city pulls from the Utah Homeless Management Information System database.
The numbers are based on nightly head counts conducted at 2 a.m., the city says.
None of the shelters is actually managed by Salt Lake City. The Road Home operates the Gail Miller, Men s and St. Vincent de Paul shelters, while the Women s Center is operated by the Volunteers of America. In a tweet Wednesday, the city said it believes in transparency and hopes the information will be helpful for those interested.
Utah’s only Black legislator, Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City, wants to see more uniform use-of-force standards for police officers across the state. SB106 has cleared its first hurdle in the Legislature.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall reflected on the success and challenges of the last year in her State of the City Address Tuesday. She also looked ahead to the city’s priorities.
SALT LAKE CITY COVID-19 threw everyone a curveball in 2020, and local governments were no exception.
In Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall s case, the coronavirus and a 5.7 magnitude earthquake came within her first 100 days in office. COVID-19 carried on throughout the year and a severe windstorm also ravaged her first year in office.
Those unforeseen developments set aside or delayed many objectives for the Salt Lake City government that were planned in 2020 and created new issues along the way.
The mayor originally laid out 57 goals 27 for the first 100 days of her term and 30 in the first year within three categories last January: our growth, our environment and our communities. City officials clarified that these meant prioritizing city growth for all residents, making the city more environmentally resilient and sustainable and improving equity among all residents.
SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake City is planning to bring on about 30 new police officers to fill open positions after lifting a hiring freeze it had imposed amid a national reckoning on racial injustice this summer.
The move, which won approval from the Salt Lake City Council earlier this week, follows an uptick in violent crimes last year and the departure of 57 officers from the Salt Lake City Police Department, with the majority quitting and others deciding to retire. This is the first step to restore the high level of service the community should expect from our department, Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown said.