A County Commissioner, His Wife, and the Housing Authority That Pays Their Company

The short version

Gage Froerer is a trustee of the Weber Housing Authority. His wife, Gloria, is also a trustee — and separately directs the Authority's own affiliated nonprofit, Friends of the Weber Housing Authority. Weber County's own warrant reports, reviewed month by month from January 2023 through December 2025, show the Authority paying $19,623 to two companies with the Froerer name on them: RESCOM INC and Froerer Real Estate and Property Management.

Who sits where

The Housing Authority's own office sits at 2380 Washington Blvd., Suite #112, Ogden — the same building as Froerer's own Weber County Commissioner office. It's also the same building where Highlander NP Housing, a now-dissolved nonprofit Froerer once directed, was registered. On December 23, 2025, the county approved a contract "for payment towards construction on Weber Housing Authority Office in the Weber Center" — funding the Authority's office space in that same building. Froerer seconded the motion and voted aye. Three months earlier, on August 26, 2025, he'd seconded and voted aye on a separate Memorandum of Understanding among the Sheriff's Office, the Housing Authority, and Weber Human Services for a supportive housing program — a second documented vote directly touching the Authority he sits on as trustee, again with no mention of that trusteeship on his own disclosure form.

The moment it was raised, and dismissed

The fact that both Froerers would sit on the same board wasn't discovered later. It was said out loud, on the record, the day the appointment was made.

On September 17, 2019, the Weber County Commission expanded the Housing Authority's board from five members to seven. Froerer was excused from that meeting — he wasn't there. In discussing his appointment, Chair Scott Jenkins told the record:

That's the entire record of the matter. No stated standard, no cited statute, no formal review — just an assertion, made by the two colleagues who wanted him on the board, that a conflict already known to exist wasn't one. Froerer himself wasn't present to weigh in either way. Everything that follows in this piece — the payments, the missing disclosure, the shared office building, the later votes — traces back to an arrangement that was flagged and waved off in a single sentence, six years before any of it was reviewed by anyone else.

What the payments were

Figures compiled from Weber County's own monthly warrant reports, reviewed individually across the three-year period. The family business itself runs deep in Weber County: Froerer Real Estate and Property Management LLC has operated since 1914, and the Froerer family has led the Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors across four generations — Fred Froerer Sr. (NWAOR president six times between 1922 and 1938), Fred Froerer Jr. (1959), Fredrick "Buck" Froerer III (1981), Zane Froerer Sr. (1988), and Gage Froerer himself (1990).

What his own form leaves out

Froerer's sworn conflict-of-interest disclosure asks him to list every board and paid-leadership position he holds. The Weber Housing Authority isn't on it — in either of the last two years he's filed one.

Why this matters

None of this is necessarily illegal on its face — Utah's disclosure system exists precisely so relationships like this are visible and checkable, not to prohibit every family business connection to public bodies. What the record shows is a repeating pattern on Froerer's own paperwork: board seats that come with real financial relationships attached, missing from the one document specifically designed to surface them, year after year.

Every figure above is checkable against Weber County's own warrant reports and Froerer's own filed disclosure forms.