LOGAN – In their final meeting of 2025, the members of the Logan Municipal Council approved budget adjustments that will fund a massive shake-up of city departments and services over the next three years.
The objective of the $54 million initiative, which has been in the planning stages for nearly 10 years, will be to relocate city equipment and personnel into new or remodeled facilities that provide improved safety and satisfy their needs.
Rather than bonding or raising taxes for the project, Finance Director Richard Anderson explained that funding for the relocation effort will come from capital fund reserves that city officials have been husbanding for a decade, particularly since 2020.
A portion of those funds – about $4.7 million – have already been appropriated, according to Anderson. More than $39.2 million will come from the Public Works reserve accounts and another $10,000 will allow the Logan Light & Power Department to purchase the former headquarters of the Public Works Department.
The construction and relocation effort will focus on the current site of the city‘s Service Center, which is near 500 North and 1000 West. That location is also adjacent to the current Public Works and Light & Power facilities.
Built in 1970, city planners say the massive Service Center is vulnerable to damage from a potential earthquake. That situation also raises the concern that ten of millions of dollars worth of emergency response equipment could be damaged or rendered inaccessible in the event of an earthquake.
They propose to correct that problem by demolishing the service center facility and replacing it with a complex of seismic-proof administrative and equipment storage facilities to be constructed on the same site.
Meanwhile, the Park & Recreation Department will relocate to the former Light & Power building across 800 West, with construction of new storage facilities. The Light & Power Department will then occupy the former Public Works building south of the Service Center site.
The council members unanimously approved the additional appropriation of more than $49 million for the project, which is expected to begin in spring of 2026.