As he stood before Millcreek residents Wednesday night at the city’s first birthday celebration, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams couldn’t help but remember how different his previous encounter with the group had been.
“The last time I stood in front of a group of Millcreek residents this large, it was in 2014 and they were all yelling at me,” he said. “So it’s great to be back in a celebratory occasion.”
The years of divisive back-and-forth on the issue of whether Millcreek should incorporate — characterized by what McAdams recalled as “protests, yelling and screaming” — were resolved in 2015, when residents voted to become Salt Lake County’s 17th municipality.