Gov. Cox releases proposed budget, including additional funding for Great Salt Lake, free transit, health care and housing
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — , a year's worth of free transit along the Wasatch Front, affordable housing and homelessness projects, mental health care and domestic violence victim services.With a backdrop of a neighborhood under development, Gov. Cox and Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson announced the administration's budget recommendations, including $150 million for housing and homeless needs.
"Every piece of this budget will ultimately help water get to the Great Salt Lake and get to our other lakes and reservoirs as well," Gov. Cox told FOX 13 News. Gov. Cox also proposed $25 million to fund a one-year, statewide pilot project exploring the concept of"free transit." It would subsidize costs for transit agencies from Logan to St. George. "Free Fare February" earlier this year, negotiated by Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, was a big hit.
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