BOUNTIFUL—The South Davis Recreation District is a staple in the community and serves several cities in Davis County. The facility continues to see increased revenue and program participation continues to grow. Executive Director Tif Miller gave an overview to the Bountiful City Council at the council’s last meeting May 26.

“This is the 19th year we’re currently in with the South Davis Recreation District,” said Miller. “We’re coming up on year 20 next year.”

 Miller said they recently finished up the 2025 financials. “We wrapped it up in great numbers from 2025. We’re seeing an increase in participation but we are also seeing increases in our expenses too for capital projects as our facility gets older.”

There’s a need to repair and replace things going forward, he said. “But we’re still going strong and we look forward to serving this community, the five cities, including Bountiful for the upcoming future, 30, 40, 50 years, however far down the road that might be.”

That’s why Miller said they were so excited about how 2025 turned out. “We’re looking forward to the next couple of years going forward.”

Miller gave the council some statistics on how the district has been doing. “In amortized past sales we saw $76,000 more in 2025 than 2024, so great increase there. Part of that is because we saw more visitors in 2025 than 2024.”

There were 6,000 more visitors last year than the year before, he said. “What that means, in total we had almost 575,000 people come into the rec center last year. That doesn’t include the 32,500 participants in programs.”

That’s not really the facility’s program so people don’t have to be scanned in for coming in for basketball, volleyball, things like that. But we had 576 members daily admittance just coming in through the front desk and scanning their cards or being checked in at the front desk.”

Obviously, a lot of those people are recurring, said Miller. “But still almost 600,000 people a year is great. We had over 19,300 members as of Dec. 31, 2025.”

The audited financial revenues of $573,000 were $74,000 more than 2024, he said. 

Some capital projects were completed, said Miller. “We replaced treadmills and resurfaced the pool hallway.”

One of the biggest things in 2025 that will continue in 2026 is a huge demand in hockey and ice rentals leading to increased revenue, he said. “Our availability is very limited on the ice right now because everybody wants to use it. We’re using it for our own programs and keeping it open for public skating, all those different types of things.”

Miller said current admission numbers are pretty much mirroring where they were at this point last year. “We sort of see things trending upward, but still great numbers compared to a couple of years ago right after COVID and some of the recovery years after that.”

Last year they had to replace the pool heaters in both pools, he said. “The new heaters are in and working well and we’re glad that the pools are back up to temperature and so are the people that are swimming in the pools. There were a couple of weeks there that they weren’t exactly thrilled about the pool temperatures and especially in the leisure pool but now it’s back to normal.”

Miller went over the many programs the rec center offers such as soccer, baseball, flag football, Jr. Jazz and many more. There will also be movie nights at Bountiful’s Town Square. “The first one will be June 13th and that will be Zootopia 2,” he said.

They’ll also participate in 4th of July parades in Centerville and West Bountiful, he said. “We’ll also be in the (Handcart Days) parade on the 25th. The same day as our Handcart Days races.”

Interlocal agreements is something they’ve always had with Bountiful, said Miller. “Currently the biggest one is our accounting/ payroll interlocal with you guys. Obviously we have other ones like the parks where you get the ground ready for some of our programming.”

Miller said they work with the city at the ice ribbon and to do the grounds around the facility. “There’s a lot of ways that we work together and we’re very grateful for all that the city is able to do for us.”

To find out more about programs the rec center is offering go to https://www.southdavisrecreation.gov/.