Kearns City Mayor Valdez

06/10/2026

This!🙌 Embracing the work our community is doing.👏

Every strong community is built on diverse voices—and right now, we're looking to strengthen ours.

The MyKearns Coalition is seeking representatives from the Media and Religious/Fraternal Organization sectors to help guide community initiatives, share valuable perspectives, and build stronger connections throughout Kearns.

Whether you work in communications, local media, a faith community, or a service organization, your voice can help shape positive change.

Interested in learning more? Send us a message or comment below. We'd love to connect with you!

06/10/2026

♻️ More Recycling Opportunities for Our Communities!

Wasatch Front Waste & Recycling District is excited to announce that our Curbside Glass Recycling Service, in partnership with Momentum Recycling, is now available to residents in Magna and Kearns, in addition to the communities we already serve.

Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled endlessly without losing quality. By recycling your glass, you're helping conserve natural resources, reduce energy use, and keep valuable materials out of our landfills.

✅ Monthly curbside collection
✅ All glass colors accepted
✅ No sorting required
✅ No need to rinse or remove labels
✅ Pickup reminders available

If you've been looking for an easy way to recycle glass from home, now's your chance. Join your neighbors in reducing waste and keeping valuable materials in the recycling stream.

🌐 Visit www.wfwrdutah.gov to learn more and subscribe today.

06/03/2026

👟Idea Proposal: A New Way to Connect (And I Need Your Input!)🏃‍♂️

Hey neighbors, I have an idea, but I want to build it with you.

I want to connect with you directly, minus the city hall filters, suits, and speeches. I’m thinking about starting a casual, untraditional weekend hangout where we can stay healthy, clean up our space, and chat about our city.

The immediate goal is simple: let's get outside, run some routes, and hang out. But long-term, I want to see where we can take this. If this catches on, I’d love to grow it into a larger initiative, partnering with local non-profits, sports leagues, and community organizations to build mentorship programs and positive weekend activities for our local youth.

Here is the vision for how we can start small:

🏀Basketball: A completely informal pickup game or shootout.

🏈Football: Throwing on cleats and running a few casual routes together.

🧹Park Clean-Up: Grabbing a trash bag to walk the loops, beautify our parks, and talk.

🗣️Open Venting: An open invitation to tell me what’s on your mind while we stay moving.

Before we lock this in, I want to hear from you. This is a community effort, so you get to call the plays. 🙌

Drop a comment below and tell me:

-Which day works best for your family? Saturday or Sunday?

-Which local park should we hit first?

-Are you or a local organization interested in helping us scale this for our youth down the road?

Let’s keep each other healthy, take care of our streets, and build something great together. Let me know your thoughts in the comments, and let’s make this happen!

06/03/2026

Please take a moment to review these important E-Bike & E-Scooter and E- Motorcycle safety laws and tips from us at the Unified Police Department.

Our goal is to help keep our communities safe while encouraging everyone to ride responsibly and obey the law. If you have questions, contact us for more information. Also please check out more information with our partners at Intermountain Health:
https://intermountainhealthcare.org/childrens-health/wellness-prevention/e-bikes-and-e-scooters

Ride smart. Ride safe.

06/02/2026

Despite our city's investment in this program, after June 2nd, we are officially out before it even launched.

While holding a special session brought needed closure for the city and our residents, the question still stands: Where do we go from here? The decision made is a stagnant one. Now, I am eager to hear a forward-thinking approach. When we did our community outreach, it wasn’t about asking residents if they were "for" or "against" a program, it was about learning what they truly value.

My role is to inspire our community to be critical thinkers, to challenge perspectives when it matters most, and to provide the tools to understand these complex situations. Ultimately, I must make decisions that benefit all of Kearns. That means looking beyond today, planning for the future, and keeping an open mind.

It is clear that our residents across the board strongly support holding utility providers accountable and protecting low-income households, while understandably expressing caution regarding costs. But with this program no longer on the table, we are in the exact same spot. How do we protect low-income households and achieve the utility accountability that residents on both sides demand?

For me, this was never solely about renewable energy. It was about gaining leverage to secure what our city actually needs and deserves. We have lost a critical tool for utility accountability. Opting in would have placed more accountability on the city (and myself) to ensure all of Kearns was taken care of, especially those who wanted to opt out. I was fully ready to step up to that responsibility.

I wanted to provide context, but I also want to issue a challenge. I ask our community, stakeholders, and representatives to help us find solutions to move forward, rather than settling for what is comfortable. If we want different results, we must be willing to sit in the uncertainty of finding a new path.

The Kearns City Council voted "no" on the Community Clean Energy Program after residents voiced concerns about rising costs. Rocky Mountain Power customers would automatically be enrolled at $4 per month, unless they chose to opt out.

06/01/2026

Thank you Carlos Alejandro Moreno for the opportunity! 🙌

I look forward in finding ways we can collaborate for the greater good of our community and for west side representation.

06/01/2026

I would encourage our community to read the stories from our leaders of tomorrow. More amazing work to come. 👏🤝

In partnership with the Kearns City Government, Kearns High School - Official (Cougar Claw) & The Salt Lake Tribune

Click link 🔗 to multiple stories below ⬇️

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06/01/2026

We can't change the cards we are dealt but we can still choose how we move forward. Kearns High School - Official students, you are all so inspiring. Regardless of age we all can learn from you. Thank you. 💚💛

“Kearns needs to be recognized for how amazing it actually is — and for the fact that the kids at Kearns are trying to overcome the bad test scores and put in the extra hard work,” writes Jacob A Hymas II in an op-ed.