After winning the race to be the first mayor of the new city taking shape in the Ogden Valley, the work is piling up for Janet Wampler.

“If you saw my to-do list, it’s very, very long with very tight deadlines for a lot of important actions,” she said. “But we are systematic, and we are working through it.”

Indeed, she and the winners of three City Council seats were sworn in to their posts on Tuesday, and efforts are well underway to lay the groundwork for the new Weber County locale . The city, likely to formally come into being in December, encompasses the Eden, Liberty and Wolf Creek areas, the Nordic Valley ski resort and a broad expanse east of Huntsville.

Efforts to create the city date to 2022, driven by proponents’ hopes of asserting more local control as development pressure

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