As the Ogden Valley coalesces into a new city, managing development and making sure the Weber County locale has basic services like police protection are among the big issues the municipality’s new leaders will face.

Those topics and more, like how the city generates revenue to operate, figured big at a candidate forum featuring the two mayoral hopefuls, Shanna Francis and Janet Wampler, as well as the hopefuls vying for five City Council spots. Voters pick the mayor and council members in voting culminating Nov. 4, and the winners take office in early January, when the new city, still to be formally named, comes into being.

“We are launching a new city, and that is a very different thing that most of us have never done before or lived through before,” said Wampler, who worked in the cor

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