The funds, reappropriated during a special legislative session, will go towards monitoring landslides, repairing roads and bridges and distributing sandbags.
After back-to-back years of declaring a drought emergency each spring, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox convened lawmakers on Wednesday to address a new statewide crisis — the consequences of record snowpack and flooding.
“We are in uncharted territory,” House Majority Leader Mike Schultz, R-Hooper, told his colleagues ahead of a vote on the emergency legislation, adding that the concern of the state is now how water will come off the mountains. The newly appropriated money — along with $7 million that’s already in an emergency response fund — is expected to help expand and repair culverts, repair damaged bridges, purchase and distribute sandbags, monitor for landslides and staff the state’s emergency operations center. House Speaker Brad Wilson, R-Kaysville, during a special legislative session in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
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