City Newsletter: July 2025

Dates and deadlines

• July 2 to 5: Legal fireworks discharge, 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM, extended to midnight on July 4.
• July 4: City Hall and the Community Center are closed.
• July 8: City Council meeting, 6 PM at City Hall.
• July 15: Senior Book Club.
• July 16: Cops & Dogs National Hot Dog Day celebration, 12-2 PM at the Syracuse Island Splash Pad.
• July 17 to 21: The Addams Family at Syracuse High School, presented by the Syracuse City Arts Council.
• July 22: Primary Election ballots are mailed out.
• July 22: City Council meeting, 6 PM at City Hall.
• July 22 to 25: Legal fireworks discharge, 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM, extended to midnight on July 24.
• July 23: Last day of the Davis School District Seamless Summer Lunch Program, which runs Monday through Thursday at fifteen schools.
• July 24: City Hall and the Community Center are closed.
• July 25: Fireworks sales period ends (sales ran June 24 to July 25).
• July 30: Senior Lunch and Bingo, and the last day to register for the Street Hockey Clinic.
• August 1: Last day to register to vote in time for the Primary Election.
• August 2: Street Hockey Clinic, $25, for youth in grades 3-6.
• August 8: Last day of the Utah Food Bank summer meals program for youth 18 and under.
• August 12: Municipal Primary Election.
• August 31: Street Hockey League and 3x3 Basketball registration close.
• September 21: Junior Jazz Basketball Session 1 registration closes.
• October 26: Junior Jazz Basketball Session 2 registration closes.

Everything else

Elections

• Only the City Council race is part of the August 12 primary, which reduces five candidates to four for the General Election. Voting is primarily by mail, with voting centers open on Election Day. Municipal elections
• Mayoral candidates: Brett Cragun and Dave Maughan. City Council candidates: Andrea Brown, J. Dallas Johnson, Jasmine Martinez, Abraham Pollard, and Gretchen Ivy Ruelan. More at the Davis County Clerk’s website.

Fireworks

• Fireworks may not be discharged on city property or in any city park. The city notes more than 60 fires in Utah so far this year, affecting over 250 people.
• Syracuse has not issued additional restrictions this year; the newsletter points residents to the Davis County fireworks restriction map.
• Safety reminders include keeping water or a hose nearby, never relighting a malfunctioning firework, supervising children and pets, and soaking used and unused fireworks before disposal.

Water and public works

• Connecting a sprinkler system to the city’s culinary (drinking) water supply is illegal and can contaminate the whole culinary system. If a violation is found, the city may have to shut down the secondary water system for everyone, and violators will be prosecuted. Sprinklers must be connected to secondary water only.
• If you suspect a cross connection or are unsure, call Public Works at 801-825-7235 or submit a fix-it request. The full update also covers storm water, tree trimming, and road construction. Read the Public Works update

City government

• Council meetings are at City Hall at 6 PM and can be attended in person, by Zoom, or watched on YouTube. You can subscribe to the council’s Notify Me list for agendas.
• The city posted a summary of actions taken at the June 10, 2025 business meeting. Read the City Council update
• The mayor writes about Independence Day, the service of veterans past and present, and the pioneers who settled Syracuse, connecting the Declaration of Independence to the city’s farming history. Read the Mayor’s Message

Seniors

• Dated activities this month are Book Club on July 15 and Lunch and Bingo on July 30. Weekly activities continue: Think Tuesday Games on Tuesdays, and pickleball and yoga on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Seniors page

City news

• Fire Station 32 at 3418 South Bluff Drive, the city’s second fire station, is now in service.
• Officer David Thomas of the Syracuse City Police Department was named the department’s Employee of the Year. He has served three years and has also received a Pistol Marksmanship Award and a Life-Saving Award.
• Syracuse took several 2025 Best of Davis County readers’ choice awards from the Standard-Examiner and the Davis Chamber of Commerce: Best City to Live In, Best Fire Department, Best Local Event (Syracuse Pumpkin Walk), Best Public Safety/Police Department, Best Skate Park (Syracuse Skatepark), and four for Jensen Nature Park (jogging area, park, picnic spot, and place to walk your dog). Award list
• Nominations are open for the Beautiful Yard Award, for your own yard or someone else’s. No deadline is given. Nomination form

Pets

• If you find a stray in Syracuse, check for a collar or ID tag, safely contain the animal if you can, and call Animal Care of Davis County at 801-444-2200. They serve Syracuse, can scan for a microchip, and post lost and found listings.
• You can also sign up as a “Friendly Finder” and keep the pet at home while the owner is located. Lost and found animals

Food for kids

• Three summer food programs are listed: free school lunches through July 23, Utah Food Bank meals through August 8 for youth 18 and under, and SUN Bucks (Summer EBT) to help families buy food while schools are closed.

Two notes on choices I made:

• Council meetings are in the body but not in events. /events/ already lists council meetings from data/notices/, so putting July 8 and July 22 in the frontmatter would double-list them.
• Senior activity locations are omitted, not set to the Community Center. The newsletter gives only the dates, so I left the location out and pointed at the 801-614-9660 city line per the private-resident rule rather than inferring a venue.

I also dropped the single adoptable-pet feature and the “View this email in your browser” and social links as filler, and the business that appears only behind an external vendor URL (Farmers Market section had no text at all).

Unofficial digest of a city newsletter. The official version is linked below.