"If there's going to be any legal challenges, we'd like to get them going as soon as possible," said Cottonwood Heights Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore, referring to west-side cities that have threatened to block the east-siders' secession.

Sandy, Midvale, Draper and Cottonwood Heights have drafted a new interlocal agreement that excludes the County Council and redraws the proposed breakaway district's boundaries to cut out the portion of Draper that sits in Utah County's Alpine School District.

Councils in Draper, Sandy and Midvale were expected to approve the new contract, which includes ballot language, Monday night. Cottonwood Heights is scheduled to vote today at 1 p.m. - in time to get the ballot language, not the measure, itself, cleared by the County Council at its 4 p.m. meeting.

If the County Council approves the wording, the new east-side district officially would be on the Nov. 6 ballot.

And South Jordan, Herriman and Riverton, which have been talking about launching a lawsuit, could go to court. The west-side cities argue they are unfairly - and unconstitutionally - cut out of the district-division vote.

Only those in the would-be district are allowed, by state law, to vote on Jordan's fate.

"If it's going on the ballot, then the [west-side] cities are going to have to communicate with one another and make a decision" on litigation, said Riverton Mayor Bill Applegarth. "Timing is very sensitive."

Also today at 6 p.m., West Jordan's City Council plans to weigh whether to put its own Jordan district defection on the ballot.

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