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Votes remain to be counted, but the first group of leaders to chart Millcreek City's course appears set and is preparing to start doing business.

Mayor-elect Jeff Silvestrini, who ran unopposed after primary runner-up Fred Healey withdrew late, citing health problems, will be joined on the city's inaugural council by four district representatives — Silvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi. The east-central-valley city of 63,000 will come into existence in January.

To get ready for that debut, the new city leaders will gather at 6 p.m. Monday to hear a presentation from consultants with experience in helping to run cities. The session will take place at Mount Olympus Improvement District, 3932 S. 500 East, which is serving as temporary municipal offices.

"They've had some experience in other states. It can't hurt to listen to that," said Silvestrini, 62, an attorney with the Salt Lake City firm Cohne Kinghorn.

He met earlier this fall with all eight potential council members to talk about visions for the city and to discuss a range of issues that will confront the five-member council next year, including:

• Should a city manager be hired to run day-to-day operations?

• Should the city stay in the county's Municipal Services District when its fiscal year begins July 1, or should it withdraw and negotiate independently to get those public-works services from the district or other sources?

"Those are things we've talked about," Silvestrini said, along with "what we want to buy or not buy. We've met mainly to get ourselves educated about the different things we need to learn."

The weak-mayor form of government Millcreek is following gives Silvestrini the same voting power as each council member.

But he will be the city's face, representing it in meetings with numerous government agencies such as the Unified Police Department, Unified Fire Authority, Municipal Services District, Salt Lake County Council of Governments and the Wasatch Front Regional Council.

"I'm looking forward to that," said Silvestrini, who is well versed in the local-government structure through years of leadership in the Mount Olympus Community Council and, leading up to the incorporation vote, Millcreek Township.

"It will be good for Millcreek to have a presence [at these meetings], which is what it lacked before," he added. "I can be an effective advocate for getting grants to help do what we can on a limited budget, make sure services are properly directed and that the money is spent in a worthwhile manner."

Assisting him with those tasks in getting Millcreek off the ground will be a council of:

• District 1, the city's western end — Catten, 30, a freelance public relations/event specialist, who has spent six years on the Millcreek Community Council. She is married and has a daughter.

• District 2, the city's midsection — Marchant, 71, a retired banker who has been involved in the Murray Chamber of Commerce, United Way and the Downtown Alliance. He and his wife raised six sons. His mother, Beatrice Peterson Marchant, served two terms in the Legislature (1969-72).

• District 3, the northeast quadrant — Jackson, 48, who helped create Impact United Soccer Club, secured a charter for Canyon Rim Academy, and has been involved in the PTA, Boy Scouts and community councils. She and her husband have four sons.

• District 4, the southeast quadrant — Uipi, 40, is deputy director of the Board of Pardons & Parole, has been a Millcreek Community Center manager and has been involved in youth rugby and volleyball, PTA, Junior League and helping nonprofit groups. She is the single mother of one. Her father, Phil Uipi, was in the Legislature (1991-94).

A feasibility study prepared for Salt Lake County by Zions Bank before the 2015 incorporation vote projected Millcreek will have an annual budget of about $30 million.