Lauren Shafer, Weber County Elections Director, reports that they are bringing their candidate training program to Ogden Valley on Monday, June 23 at 6:30 PM at the Huntsville Town Hall. Shafer responded to a request from the Transition Team to bring the same training provided at the Weber Center to the candidates in the valley. Now that nearly 40 candidates have signed up to serve, the additional location will be convenient...Read More
All Ogden Valley mayoral and city council candidates, as well as the public, are invited to join a Candidate Briefing on June 17 th from 6:30 pm to 8:00 PM, presented by the volunteers of the Valley Startup Transition Team. The briefing will focus on the municipal services that must be provided starting January 5 and the volunteer work that has been done to date to make that possible. The...Read More
Compiled by Shanna Francis By a healthy margin, Valley voters supported the initiative for Ogden Valley to become its own administrative, legislative, and judicial entity. Now what… what’s next? Sponsors of the incorporation effort, with community input, will likely decide on five Ogden Valley districts (they can choose fewer) from which new council members will be elected. They will also decide on initial term lengths for each new city council...Read More
The preliminary official incorporation vote tally was 2,149 (68%) for incorporation and 1,014 (32%) against. The community voted for a six-member council form of government and to elect their government representatives by district. There were so many people who gave so much to this effort, and we want to thank one and all. Your time, effort, thought, creativity, generosity and giving spirit were so apparent and very much noticed by...Read More
By Kim Wheatley There are several good reasons for voting to incorporate, but for me, this Valley as a place deserves respect. It is worth working to preserve what we hold dear about it, and this is what incorporation is about. Ogden Valley residents are voting whether or not to leave the nest of Wasatch Front Government and accept the mantle of self-governance. This is a very big deal in...Read More
