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Every Weber County Property Tax Increase Since 2019

The county, the school districts, the cities, and the fire, water, sewer and dispatch districts: every Truth in Taxation increase found in the public record for tax years 2019 through 2026, with what it was for and where the numbers come from.

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The short version
  1. 59 increases were proposed by Weber County taxing entities for tax years 2020 through 2026 in the records reviewed. At least 46 were adopted.
  2. 2022 was the peak: 13 increases, every one adopted, including Harrisville (166%), Riverdale (94.8%), Weber Basin Water (62%) and both school districts.
  3. Both fire districts raised taxes repeatedly. North View Fire proposed an increase every year from 2020 through 2026; Weber Fire District raised its tax for 2022 and 2026 and proposed an increase for 2023.
  4. In 2025, the state stopped six of them. The Utah State Tax Commission denied increases from Roy, North Ogden, South Ogden, Harrisville, North View Fire and Central Weber Sewer, citing new notice rules.
  5. In 2026: Weber Fire District 23.58%, Roy 34.25% and Ogden Valley City's conditional 512.6%. Weber County skipped a property tax increase and adopted a new sales tax instead.

Counts are from the records reviewed and will change as more minutes are checked. 2019 notices were scanned images that couldn't be read, so 2019 is mostly missing. "Not found" never means "didn't happen."

Explain this simply

Your property tax bill has a line for each group that taxes your home: the county, your school district, your city, and districts for fire, water, sewer and 911 dispatch.

When home values go up, Utah automatically lowers each group's rate so it collects about the same money as the year before. That's called the certified rate.

To collect more than that, a group has to mail a notice and hold a public hearing. That's called Truth in Taxation. This page lists every one of those increases found in Weber County since 2019.

Increases by year

Truth in Taxation increases proposed, by tax year

Tap a year to see the list below.
Adopted
Adopted, scaled back
Proposed, adoption not confirmed
Denied by the state
Conditional

Tax year is the year the higher tax is billed. Entities that budget by calendar year, like the county and the fire districts, vote in November or December for the next tax year.

The full list

Filter by year, type or outcome. Tap any row for the example home, the reason given and the source.

2025: when the state said no

On Oct. 2, 2025, the Utah State Tax Commission denied property tax increases from 35 entities statewide, KSL reported, citing notice requirements tightened by S.B. 29 (2024) and S.B. 202 (2025). Six were in Weber County. Their elected boards had voted for the increases; the state blocked them.

EntityProposedExample home
RoyAbout 28%$432,000: $384.44 → $492.54
North OgdenAbout 15.6%$535,000: $383.70 → $444.32
Central Weber SewerAbout 9%$483,000: $143.45 → $156.73
North View Fire DistrictAbout 7.3%$544,000: $327.92 → $352.16
South OgdenAbout 4.9%$483,000: $652.17 → $684.85
HarrisvilleAbout 1.7%$425,000: $358.57 → $365.12

From the county's combined 2025 notice and KSL's report of the denials. Several came back in 2026: Roy adopted 34.25%, and North View Fire and South Ogden noticed new increases.

What else changed in the same years

While these increases went through, new tools were added that send part of the future tax money from new growth to specific projects instead of these entities' budgets.

The notices reviewed give pay, staffing, inflation, required upgrades and new buildings as the reasons for these increases. None ties an increase to tax-increment sharing. Sharing reduces the growth money these entities would otherwise have to meet rising costs; for most of these projects it has only just begun or starts in 2027.

Companion case file · CASE 2026-WFD-02 Paying for the Next Station: How Weber Fire District Funds Its Growth The fire district's own increases, its Nordic Village share, and what's ahead for Roy and Riverdale. Transparency Weber County's New Sales Tax Why the county chose a sales tax over a property tax increase for 2026.

How the County Commission voted

The County Commission, not voters, made each county-level tax and financing decision below. From 2019 through 2022 the commissioners were Jim Harvey, Scott K. Jenkins and Gage Froerer. Since January 2023 they have been Jim Harvey, Gage Froerer and Sharon Bolos.

DateDecisionVote
Dec. 14, 20214.5% county property tax increase (flood control, library)3–0, as reported by the Standard-Examiner; the minutes are a scanned image
Nov. 22, 2022Creates Snowbasin's Mount Ogden PIDs (Resolution 49-2022)3–0: Jenkins, Harvey, Froerer
June 27, 2023Creates the Promontory Commerce Center PIDs (Resolution 30-2023)3–0: Froerer, Harvey, Bolos
Nov. 28, 20237.25% county increase: hearing held, decision postponed to Dec. 123–0 to postpone. The Dec. 12 minutes weren't found online; the county's fact sheet says the increase was approved
Dec. 5, 2023Eden Crossing rezone (Ordinance 2023-37)2–1 as reported by KSL and the Standard-Examiner, Harvey and Froerer yes, Bolos no; the roll call wasn't confirmed in the minutes reviewed
Jan. 2, 2024Asks the Utah Inland Port Authority to add West Weber land to its project area (Resolution 02-2024)3–0: Harvey, Froerer, Bolos
Nov. 20, 2024Creates the Nordic Village PIDs (Resolution 53-2024)3–0: Harvey, Froerer, Bolos
Dec. 10, 2024Approves the county's own 75% Nordic Village tax increment share (Resolution 55-2024)3–0
Dec. 31, 2024Adopts the Nordic Village CRA plan (Ordinance 2024-24)3–0
Mar. 3, 2026Amends the Promontory PID governing document so District 1 can overlap Districts 2 and 3 (Resolution 10-2026); staff said it would let District 1 pursue assessment bonds for a sewer project3–0
June 2026New 0.20% county sales taxUnanimous, per the county and KSL; the minutes weren't posted online yet

From the commission's minutes, read through text extraction, except where a news report is named. On Dec. 5, 2023, the minutes record Commissioner Froerer saying, on a companion Eden ordinance: "I've been accused unjustly of having financial interest in this which obviously is not true. But I do have a business that would be impacted." On Dec. 31, 2024, the minutes record a member of the public asking him to recuse over a stated investment; no recusal or response is recorded. No other disclosures or recusals appeared in the text reviewed.

No increase found

No Truth in Taxation increase was found in the records reviewed for Plain City, Farr West, Marriott-Slaterville, West Haven, Huntsville, Weber Mosquito Abatement, Bona Vista Water or Uintah Highlands. Weber County skipped increases for tax years 2025 and 2026. West Haven charges no city property tax; to raise revenue without starting one, it will collect a 6% energy tax on electricity and natural gas starting Oct. 1, 2026 (see the case file). That can change as more records are checked.

How this was compiled, and its limits

Public records only. No comment requested.