Mayor Gene R. Mangum
Current Committee Assignments
- Administration (Budget, Finance, Treasurer, Recorder, Personnel)
- Wage & Personnel Committee
- Utah County Council of Governments
- South Utah County Mayors
- Mountainland Association of Governments
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Message from the mayor
Dear Friend,
For over 150 years, Springville has had both unique and common characteristics. In many ways Springville has remained traditional and provincial and in some areas still has a rural feel. As residents, we have always placed great importance on education, religious faith, patriotism, and volunteer service, making Springville a friendly, close-knit, family-oriented, wonderful community in which to live.
But, we stand at a crossroad that divides our past from the future. Our population growth rate (5% annually) is above not only the national growth rate, but above the state and county growth rates as well. We are becoming more enlightened, cosmopolitan and progressive. As our population grows, we are becoming more demographically and culturally diverse and more than a mere residential community. We are also becoming an inviting urban center for new business and industry.
Because Springville is located only a few miles from the population center of Utah County, the second largest County in Utah, we are in close proximity to the best of everything that the County has to offer, e.g., two thriving institutions of higher learning (Utah Valley State College and Brigham Young University), shopping malls, industrial parks, cultural and recreation centers, and much, much more. In the near future, more and more of the opportunities and advantages previously held only by more developed urban areas will be located here in Springville.
Springville City is diligently planning to prepare for whatever the future holds. We are revising our general plans, evaluating plans covering the intended use of areas to be annexed, and developing capital improvements plans for City facilities. But, our real challenge is not just to handle growth, but to retain the best of our traditional values while learning more from our new neighbors and friends. When all the plans have been implemented, all the growth has occurred, and we have grown to our boundaries, we hope still to say that Springville is “a friendly, close-knit, family- oriented, wonderful community in which to live.”
Respectfully,
Gene Mangum
Mayor