Townhomes in Eagle Mountain, Utah.

Eagle Mountain is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. The city is a new development located to the west of the Lake Mountains, which are west of Utah Lake. It was incorporated on December 3, 1996 and has been rapidly growing ever since. The population was 2,157 at the 2000 census. By 2005 the estimated population had reached 10,343.^[1] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1843x1382, 412 KB) Townhomes in Eagle Mountain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1843x1382, 412 KB) Townhomes in Eagle Mountain. ... Utah County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... Utah Lake and Utah Valley Utah Lake is Utahs , and it is one of the largest naturally occurring fresh-water lakes in the western United States. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

History

John Walden and Eagle Mountain Properties purchased land in the city center area from a bankruptcy sale. Initially purchasing the land for the water rights and after finding out that those rights could not be transferred out of the valley, Walden later decided to form a city by joining with the developers in the Ranches and with Harvest Haven development, both from the north area of the city, in order to have enough residents to form a town.

A need for city services was paramount to make a reality of this effort and so the city shortly after being formed entered into the utility business and began providing, gas, electric, water, sewer and even telephone sicne this area was so far removed from typical services. This would require millions of dollars and would become the root of much controversy in the future.

The city formed it's own volunteer fire department that would later become one of the finest in the State of Utah for a city its size. The first permanent structure built was the fire station. Temporary trailer were brought in as the first official city offices with a new city hall/utilities administration building being built and completed in May 2005 along with a new public works building. They even formed their own library that now occupies over 2000 square feet in its new city hall/utilities administration building.

Eagle Mountain was a planned city built around a concept of new urbanism, and incorporated in December 1996 with a population of approximately 250 residents. New urbanism is an urban design movement whose popularity increased from the beginning of the 1980s onwards. ...

Pony Express Elementary, Eagle Mountain's first school, opened over capacity. A new elementary school, Eagle Valley Elementary, opened in time for the 2004-2005 school year, also opening over capacity. The Ranches Academy, a public charter school, opened for the 2004-2005 school year opened at its set enrollment capacity.

Government and politics

Eagle Mountain has had several mayors in its short history. Debbie Hooge was appointed the first mayor by the Utah County Commission upon incorporation in December of 1996. At the next regular election in October of 1997, Hooge reluctantly placed her name on the ballot because there were no other candidates and she won by 61 votes against J.L McDonald, a write in candidate. After being elected as the city's mayor she immediately began to prepare one of the city councilmen to replace her. By October of 1998 Hooge resigned in favor of Councilman Rob Bateman, a former mayor pro-tem of Alpine, Utah and current resident of Eagle Mountain. Bateman fulfilled his commiment until the next regular election, which by law required an election to be held to finish out the four year term of mayor Hooge. Paul Bond was elected mayor and served the remaining two-years of Mayor Hooge's original four year term. Kelvin Bailey then ran against Greg Kehl, a city councilman, and won by about 70 votes. Bailey later resigned on June 30, 2005, citing financial problems and a need to have time to develop his inventions. Vincent Liddiard, the Mayor Pro Tem, took the lead until David Lifferth was appointed by 5-0 vote of the council on August 2, 2005. Lifferth resigned his position as mayor at the end of the final council meeting for 2005. Brian Olsen, the mayor pro tem and mayor-elect filled the seat for the final days of 2005. Brian Olsen was the sixth mayor to serve in the office since 1998 until he resigned on October 20, 2006. Councilwoman Linn Strouse was appointed as mayor pro tem to fill the mayor seat on October 21. The vote was 3-2, with council members Liddiard and Jackson dissenting.^[2] June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... -1... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ...

In January 2006, Brian Olsen was seated as mayor (defeating Brigham Morgan) and David Lifferth and Heather Jackson as council members (defeating Alicia Hill and Donna Burnham).

Immediately prior to resigning as mayor, Lifferth's last official act was to officially name the Utilities Administration Building (the City Hall) in honor of former mayor Kelvin Bailey. He sited that due to the financial turned around of the city and the overall improvements made during mayor Bailey's term, that he felt it was appropriate to rename the building. The sign would have read, "Eagle Mountain's Mayor Kelvin Bailey City Administration Building". While David Lifferth felt he had the power to make this change as mayor, the council disagreed. After Brian Olsen was sworn in at the beginning of the year, the discussion for this was proposal placed on the agenda, but was dropped due to a letter from Mayor Bailey requesting that the name not be changed. During the discussion at the first meeting of his term regarding the proposed name change, Mayor Olsen read the following, "while I was surprised, humbled and honored by this recommendation, I would like to request that this recommendation not be acted upon," Bailey wrote in a letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily Herald.

Currently, Heather Jackson, David "Dave" Blackburn, David Lifferth, Linda "Linn" Strouse, and Vincent Liddiard hold seats on the city council.

Bailey and Eagle Mountain gained some national attention in March 2003 when Bailey reportedly claimed to have been kidnapped and forced to drive to Barstow, California. FBI personnel were briefly involved in the case and the investigation, but after interviewing with mayor Bailey and reviewing the facts they did not feel a need to press charges given the facts of the matter. Bailey reportedly confessed after having driven all night and having no sleep for 72 hours, that he had invented the kidnapping story due to his "struggling with the stresses of his responsibilities as mayor and with his job as a construction consultant. He admitted making up the story to appease his wife after finding himself 500 miles away from home and not knowing how to explain how he got there. His wife had suffered a stroke the month before and out of concern for her health and unaware that police had been contacted, he concocted the story until he could return home and explain the strange events." He knew how worried she would be, but did not know how to explain his unexplicable drive away from home to her at that time and was concerned for her health. ^[3] The County Attorney's office initially annouced it would charge Bailey with filing a false police report, but after the county could not find a false police report he was charged two weeks later with providing false information to an office. He initially pled not guilty to a class B misdemeanor charge, but finally accepted a "no contest" plea and abeyance deal in 2005. These charges have since been esponged from his record.

Interestingly, to-date Brigham Morgan and Greg Kehl are the only two city councilmen to finish four-year elected terms. City Councilwoman Linn Strouse completed her first two year elected term and was re-elected to a new four year term and is currently still serving. No Eagle Mountain mayor has finished a four-year term to-date. Mayor Bailey came within 6 months to complete a full four year term and is the only mayor to have served three and half years in the history of Eagle Mountain. Mayor Bailey before leaving office pushed hard to get the city council to approve a salary for a full time salary for the future mayor. After having served longer than any other mayor he was determined that part of the problem lay in the fact that the mayor received a monthly stipend of $1,000. In June 2005 the council voted to approve this action at the lasting meeting with mayor Bailey. In July 2005, the city council officially approved the salary for the mayor for about $70,000 per year, including benefits. The money was procured from sewer funds initially, but later they were allocated from a variety of funds in the budget. The city needed to expand its sewage treatment facility for the "South Service Area" or would likely have a building moratorium when the current plant reached capacity. The cost for this is estimated to be $6.6 million, with only $500,000 raised so far from a federal grant procured during mayor Bailey's term. Efforts to work with the State of Utah have been in the works since 2004 in an effort to procure additional funds needed for this project.

Not long after taking office officially in 2006, Brian Olsen was caught up in controversy surrounding his claims that he held a Masters of Public Administration degree from Brigham Young University. It was found that he indeed did not have an MPA as his campaign candidacy declarations and campaign literature stated in both the 2003 and 2005 elections.^[4] He refused to step down, despite the lies.^[5] To compound the issue, his employer, the Utah Highway Patrol, opened an internal investigation in light of Brian Olsen having reported to the UHP that he held the MPA and received a decoration for holding the degree. Olsen, on a leave of absence to be Mayor in Eagle Mountain, resigned from the Utah Highway Patrol before the investigation was completed, causing the matter to be closed within the UHP.^[6]

On October 20, 2006, Brian Olsen became the latest mayor to resign from office. The reason cited was "family and personal considerations".^[7] Interestingly, this resignation was posted at around 3:00 p.m. on the same day an emergency meeting of the city council was called to discuss a pending criminal investigation involving a city employee. In light of this resignation, the council met in emergency session on October 21, 2006 and selected Linn Strouse to serve as interim mayor for a 30 day period. The vote was 3-2, with council members Liddiard and Jackson dissenting.^[8] October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... -1... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... -1...

On October 23, it was announced that Olsen had been charged with seven felony accounts of misusing public funds by the Utah County Attorney's office. Several city council members reported being aware of the ongoing investigation and were advised by the County Attorney to not speak about it until the charges were filed.^[9] Unfortunately, no mayoral term has gone without controvery in Eagle Mountain. Mayor Hooge was involved in controversy over her involvement and connection to developers within the city while serving as mayor, so the city council passed an ordinance to address this concern in 1998. Mayor Bateman had to deal with the controvery over the city owning utilities and an effort by the north segment of the city wanting to disconnect from the city over this issue. Mayor Bond had to deal with the controversy of the city finances not being in order. Annual reports had not been submitted to the State as required by law since 1998, bank accounts had not been reconciled for years of 2000 - 2002, bond debts were increased to over 63 million dollars to fund utilities and worst of all the city had lost all its financial records from the years of 1998-2000, which were used to base those loans on. October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Yes, the development of a community is a process that ususally takes a generation or two. Every community has "growing pains". It is a normal process. It is essential for Eagle Mountain to have had and continue to have the experiences that will allow it to grow and develop into what it has the potential to become. Communities struggle and grow, some succeed and others don't. Those that succeed do so in spite of, or perhaps because of, the experiences and challenges of their creators.

Utilities

The utilities are owned by the city. While the Telecom department has been sold to Direct Communications, the city owns its own natural gas, electric, water, and sewer services.

Geography

Looking north along Pony Express Parkway, Eagle Mountain, Utah.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 108.0 square kilometres (41.7 square miles). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1843x1382, 410 KB) Looking north along Pony Express Parkway in Eagle Mountain, Utah. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1843x1382, 410 KB) Looking north along Pony Express Parkway in Eagle Mountain, Utah. ... The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ...

Eagle Mountain sits at the western base of the Lake Mountains in the flat Cedar Valley northeast of the city of Cedar Fort. An area known as The Ranches is also being developed just north of the Lake Mountains on Utah State Route 73 (west of Lehi), within the city limits of Eagle Mountain. Lehi is a city located in Utah County, Utah. ...

Highway 73 and Eagle Mountain Boulevard provide access to the city from Utah Valley and Salt Lake Valley, although the city center sits at least 15 miles from the two valleys' main transportation corridor along Interstate 15. The Utah Department of Transportation is in the process of planning a western freeway for the Salt Lake valley which would connect to Highway 73 only a few miles from The Ranches Parkway and Eagle Mountain Boulevard and provide more direct access to Provo and Salt Lake City. ^[10] Utah Valley is a valley in central Utah located in Utah County. ... Salt Lake Valley from space. ... I-15 redirects here. ... Map showing Provo, Utah Provo is a city in Utah and the county seat of Utah County, located about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Salt Lake Citys top tourist draw. ...

Demographics

As of the 2000 census, there were 2,157 people, 532 households, and 502 families residing in the town. The population density was 20.0/km² (51.7/mi²). There were 598 housing units at an average density of 5.5/km² (14.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 96.57% White, 0.32% African American, 0.37% Native American, 0.32% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.88% from other races, and 1.48% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.11% of the population. 2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ...

There were 532 households of which 74.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 89.1% were married couples living together, 3.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 5.6% were non-families. 3.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 0.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.05 and the average family size was 4.18.

In the town the population was spread out with 47.4% under the age of 18, 11.9% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 6.3% from 45 to 64, and 1.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 21 years. For every 100 females there were 100.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.8 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $52,102, and the median income for a family was $52,434. Males had a median income of $40,777 versus $25,313 for females. The per capita income for the town was $16,340. About 2.0% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.1% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

Since the 2000 census there has been massive growth in Eagle Mountain and surrounding cities. City officials now estimate the total population to be closer to 13,500.

References

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External links

• City's official website
• Eagle Mountain News
• Mountain View Corridor News
• Eagle Mountain Community Website

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