A collaborative meeting was held on October 22, 2025, bringing together the Sandy City Council and leadership from the Metropolitan Water District (Metro Water) to discuss the historical relationship, water rights, infrastructure challenges, and financial commitments between the two entities. The gathering emphasized the concept of a "Metro water family," highlighting the long-standing partnership since Sandy's annexation in 1990, while addressing critical upcoming projects, including the rebuild of the Little Cottonwood Water Treatment Plant and various aqueduct replacements.
Historical Context and Annexation:
Infrastructure and Capital Projects:
Water Sources and Financials:
No, I'm gonna stand. I'm gonna folks um I'm Tom Godfrey, the chair of Metro Water, and um I want to welcome you all to our house. We always come and visit you at your house. So welcome to our house. And I gotta give you a little history. Um Sandy is a part of Metro Water because of my vote. I was on the city council in 1990 when we voted to bring Sandy into Metro Water. So I have a little background there. And one of the reasons we've called this uh gathering is that as we presented property tax things and budgets to you folks. Questions have come up about the relationship between Metro and Sandy. Um what are the benefits for Sandy? What are the costs of water and things like that? So we thought it's time to have a chat together with your folks. So that's why you're here. I just want to welcome you and uh hope it's a good meeting for you. So Annalie. Tom, do you want to say anything about the inside of that? Um thank you, Annaline. I I would second what Tom has said. I didn't know that, Tom, that you were on the board or on the city, Salt Lake City Council. I knew yourself a city council member. But that's really good. I would say a takeaway for you as counsel to just go with what Thomas said, that you see these people that we work with, we meet at least once a month. Many times it's more often. That if you have a conservator in question, that you feel comfortable to call in on me. Call Tom, call myself and my staff, anybody on the staff. We call ourselves the Metro family. So it's Salt Lake and Metro and Sandy. We meet together as your staff, and as you'll see, it is not in consequential what these folks are doing. I know we have a lot of important things in Sandy, of course, part of your water team. But I think you will see that I'll quote uh this time I'll choose uh know the value of water when well runs dry. So our job is to make sure that it's always flowing, it's always clean, there's so much that goes into it. Um Tom is one of seven trustees, and we got Florence and John, who you know we're on your P We V board. Um John, how long have you been on PAB? Uh PUAB, I think Jimmy will told me uh 2001, maybe long this board 2003 with a brief interlude when I was in West Africa. Yeah, and then Florence, maybe if you could just introduce remind them about some of your background. Well, I I was with Salt Lake City, I worked with Salt Lake City from 89 um to 2013, and I retired. Um I was water quality administrator, so I have a little bit of a background in water, water quality, uh water treatment. And I have been with Tom, I think, for eight years. Florence is just one of my first bosses. It's and then I was her boss for a little while, and then we got to work together again and so and I you know I've been on the Sandy's uh public utilities board for about eight years, I think. Sandy resident that whole time. Oh, I've been a resident since 89. Yeah. So I've been here a long time. And I, at the expense of potentially embarrassing some folks, we have some of the icons in Utah Water, are part of this. Florence and John and Tom and the trustees. So we're well represented, but then one of the best ways we can do that is just following what Tom said, having a relationship so that you feel comfortable asking us questions, and if we're not educating you or helping you, you've got a principal number here. So thank you, Tom. Thanks, Tom.