South Salt Lake faces a June 30 deadline to buy the former Granite High after voters in November rejected a $25 million bond by five votes. Residents remain sharply divided about whether to spend tax dollars on the deal. But if the lease expires, the city would lose nearly $500,000 already invested in the historic school.The city has long suffered from a condensed sales-tax base, sullied by sewage-treatment plants, Salt Lake County jails, freeways, bus barns, light-rail garages and other properties that don’t fill the public purse.
Salt Lake Tribune
