Civil Municipal Magazine - Dec 2023

209 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 12 SOUTH SALT LAKE , UTAH unique setting. In 2010, Wood became the first female mayor of this city that was settled in 1847 and incorporated 91 years later. Wood says South Salt Lake is just south of the capital city of Salt Lake City. She explains that 87 years ago, Salt Lake City tried and failed to annex South Salt Lake. This was down to concerns over the funding and installation of a sewer system. In 1938, residents voted to incorporate South Salt Lake as its own entity. “That is the exciting reason why we were created,” Wood jokes, “so we could get our own sewer! We are seven square miles in the middle of the mountains in the Salt Lake Valley.” Wood is a longtime veteran of the City of South Salt Lake. She began working for the City when she was 19, and she has seen some 30 years of transitions. M L D . C O M App l i ances P l umb i ng Ha r dwa r e Mayor Cherie Wood