Amid pandemic turmoil, Mendenhall introduces first budget

When Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall took office this year, the city was looking at a surplus. What a difference a pandemic makes.A highly contagious virus that has forced businesses to close coupled with a wave of damaging earthquakes means Mendenhall’s administration needed to do some creative rethinking of the proposed budget, which she presented to City Council members in a virtual meeting Tuesday night.“At the start of the last fiscal year our state as a whole was going on