County Sends $1.68 Million to Layton for East Gentile Street and $165,000 to Bountiful
Two quiet line items on the Davis County Commission’s Sept. 15 agenda moved real road money to two cities — the kind of item that never makes a headline but eventually shows up as orange cones on a street you drive.
Layton: $1,682,400 for East Gentile Street
Resolution #2026-29 covers an interlocal cooperation agreement with Layton City for highway or public transit project reimbursement on East Gentile Street between 2400 East and 2600 East. The county agenda lists the amount as a payable of $1,682,400, with a term running from July 1, 2026 through Dec. 31, 2027. It was recommended by Kent Andersen, director of the county’s Community and Economic Development department.
That end date is the number worth writing down. Interlocal reimbursement agreements typically set an outside deadline for the work, which makes Dec. 31, 2027 the horizon for this stretch of Gentile. Layton City posts its active construction work on its Public Works projects page, including a live map of what is torn up right now.
Bountiful: $165,000 in fourth-quarter local option funds
Resolution #2026-28 approves an interlocal agreement with Bountiful City for fourth-quarter local option funding, listed as a payable of $165,000 with a term from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. The three-year window suggests a phased or multi-season commitment rather than a single summer of work.
What ‘fourth-quarter local option’ means
It is a mouthful, and it is not a calendar quarter. Utah’s local option sales taxes for transportation are layered in quarter-of-a-percent increments, and the fourth of those layers is a pot Davis County programs into specific city road projects. Commissioners spent the last slot of their Sept. 15 work session — 9:30 to 9:45 a.m. — on agenda item #2026-880, a discussion of transportation project proposals for exactly this funding, led by county transportation planner David Mitchell.
In other words, the Layton and Bountiful agreements are two approvals out of a queue, and more cities are in line behind them.
Also on the transportation planner’s list
The same work session included a proposal for a countywide memorial bench program (item #2026-838), also brought by Mitchell. No decision was listed on the agenda — it was a discussion item — but a formal program would give residents a sanctioned way to dedicate a bench along county trails and parks rather than negotiating case by case. We will follow it.
How to follow these
Every commission agenda is posted in advance on Utah’s Public Notice Website, and meeting audio is attached afterward. Comments on agenda items can be emailed to commissioners@daviscountyutah.gov by 5 p.m. the day before the meeting, or made in person at 61 S. Main St., Suite 303, Farmington.
Sources
All amounts, resolution numbers, street segment and contract terms are taken from the Davis County Commission’s regular meeting agenda for Sept. 15, 2026 and its work session agenda for the same day, both posted by the Davis County Clerk’s Office. Layton City’s share of the total project cost is set in the city’s own resolution and is not stated here; DCU could not verify it from a city source before publication.
