KAYSVILLE—The annual Davis Chamber Mayors Luncheon brought together the mayors of several cities to give them the opportunity to share what’s going on in their city and to have a chance to collaborate. The event, held at the Davis Technical College recently, included not only mayors but council members and county leaders.

Davis Chamber President/CEO Angie Osguthorpe led the discussion. Here are some of the comments made by the mayors.

Joy Petro – Layton City

“Our population is 84,000 plus,” she said. “Layton has been home for me. I grew up around here. I’m seeing the population change. I’ve seen the landscape change and it’s what we deal with as mayors – there’s always so much change.”

Layton Commons Park has the Vietnam Wall there, said Petro. “ We are trying to expand that area and really make it a memorial to all the folks that serve in the military and all the various branches.”

Petro said as a mayor she is constantly thinking about families and homes and really trying to create the right place to live. “We’ve identified some additional property out west that will be our future business park so that we can try to create more jobs here locally.”

Kate Bradshaw – Bountiful

“I’m sure you’ll hear from several of our other sister cities, we have been engaged in a number of planning events this year for America 250 and have a lot of events that started (with a kick off on Memorial Day) and go through the rest of the year,” she said.

“In Utah, cities kind of have to decide whether they’re a Pioneer Day city or an Independence Day city,” Bradshaw said. “This year we’re going to be all the things.”

Bradshaw said the city has been working on the trails master plan. “We’re excited about that and I hope to use that as an opportunity for people to come visit our city for recreational experiences and then stop and visit many of our local businesses to shop, to dine as we’ve also spent a lot of time working on our Main Street.”

Dave Maughan – Syracuse

“Things are moving really rapidly for us," said Maughan. “Everybody’s talking about our Costco that will be open next month, the 24th. I’ve been hesitant to share that date because the construction manager kept telling me things can change.”

Things can change, he said. “But they’ve put up a sign so I’m going to go with that.”

Syracuse is the fastest growing city in Davis County, Maughan said. “We’re the third largest at this point in time and we’re excited for what we do.”

Marie Dougherty – Clinton

“I really appreciate all the collaboration that goes on in Davis County,” Dougherty said. “We have awesome leaders and residents and businesses. Everyone is coming together to make it a great place.”

Clinton is still growing, she said. “We have Home Depot coming online about November of this year so that’ll be a great boon for Clinton City. Get Air is supposed to take the place of Jo-Ann fabrics that left so that will be awesome for all of the youth of Clinton.”

Ryan Westergard – Woods Cross

“We’re deep into the design of our City Hall,” said Westergard. “We’re at a point where we get to approach the residents and tell them that we need to fund it. The original parts of it were built in the 60s. It’s time for some improvements.”

Jeanne Groberg – Fruit Heights

“We’ve been working with the Forest Service and the county on things and the BST Trail that runs by our city,” said Groberg. “It has needed some connection and some realignment probably in the next year or so depending on how a few things go. That’s exciting.”

Ken Romney – West Bountiful

“We don’t have a lot of developable land,” Romney said. “The major part of what’s left is around 300 acres. We've been working with some developers and trying to put this together and we’ve really been trying to work on a mix of transition from more rural equestrian areas to smaller, higher density and distinct signal family homes.”

Clark Wilkinson – Centerville

“We had a pipe break a week and a half ago and we lost 2 million gallons of water down the street,” said Wilkinson. “We had one on the same section just a couple blocks over last summer and we lost 1.8 million gallons of water. We have a brief window (for repair) until Oct. 15 because UDOT is going to start tearing into the freeway at some point.”

Right now they’re tearing into Legacy, he said. “We can redo our Main Street and some of those water areas before they say no more working on Main Street because we’re going to be working on the freeway.”

The Mayors Luncheon is held annually.