Scott Phillips, candidate for Heber City Council. Photo: courtesy of the Phillips family

HEBER CITY, Utah. — After dipping his toe in the water of community commitment for 14 years in the Heber Valley Rotary Club, Scott Phillips is diving in as a candidate for Heber City Council. Phillips who attended BYU and Utah State University, ultimately getting his Master’s Degree in Hotel Restaurant Management from Penn State grew up in Vail, Colorado, but has called Heber home for almost two decades.

After a delayed interview due to his picking up garbage around town, he spoke passionately about the multiple global volunteerism trips he’d felt privileged in which to participate. Phillips sits on the Board of the Heber Valley Hospital as well as the Board of Adjustment for Heber City.

As a tenant at the Heber Valley Airport and a managing director of investments for a national bank, this full-time financial advisor and part-time private pilot and his wife of twenty years, Kristi, a former local small business owner, are raising their three adopted children via the Wasatch County School District.

Phillips told TownLift that his three core platform issues are:

Growth Management
Traffic Concerns
Airport Operations

While any additional focus would be directed towards pedestrian and cyclist safety.

His growth management objectives include but are not limited to, “Growth, yes, but smart growth.” He cites the well-known Sorenson Annexation as a plan he supports.

As far as traffic concerns go for Phillips, his ideas encompass a bypass for Main Street that would integrate the “Natural flora and fauna of the wetlands and wildlife that the Heber Valley is lucky to showcase and share.”

Regarding the airport, he said, “Heber City should comply with the improvements suggested in the Airport Master Plan to comply with Federal standards making the airport safer for users and citizens.”

Seven other candidates are on the ballot for Heber City Council, the two election winners of which will sit for a four-year term.

Those candidates are: