After almost two and half hours, the West Jordan City Council wasn’t ready to motion to adjourn. It still had some goodbyes to give. 

During the final council meeting of 2025, outgoing members Pamela Bloom and Kelvin Green were given warm sendoffs by the city and fellow councilmembers as they were thanked for their service as elected officials. 

“You have made the council richer for your service,” Councilmember Zach Jacob told them both, after expressing his appreciation for the chance to serve with them. 

Council Director Alan Anderson recognized their time and years of service on the council, Green having served six years from 2020-2025 (he lost his reelection bid) and Bloom for her term that started in 2022. 

Anderson highlighted the 222 ordinances adopted by the council during the last four years the two served (319 including the extra two years for Green). Among them Anderson listed the renaming of Copper Hills Parkway, affordable housing, amendments to home occupations and general business regulations, the Copper Rim town center, creating corridor land use along Redwood Road, helipad ordinance, google fiber adoption, Copper Meadows development and water efficiency standards. 

“Those will leave an indelible outcome on the city of West Jordan for quite a long time,” Anderson said. 

He presented both with a city employee-signed picture frame of City Hall and a street sign labeled Bloom Blvd. and Green Gateway. Green also left behind a three-piece canvas of the American flag. 

Bloom expressed gratitude for her journey of serving, noting what surprised her most was how the harder decisions weren’t about policy, but “about people trying to be heard while carrying fear and hope or frustration.”

Her parting words were both a recognition of a council seat’s importance and an admonition for those serving going forward. 

“I was a temporary steward of something bigger than any one person,” she said in her final remarks from the dais. “My hope is that this council keeps choosing curiosity over certainty, listening before reacting and remembering that most people who come to this room truly care deeply about this city, even when they disagree.

“Serving here has shaped how I listen, how I question and how seriously I take public trust and I will carry that with me.” 

For Green as he looked back on his six years on the council and four and a half on the planning commission, he felt they made “immense strides in land use and trying to get planning things right.”

“We’ve set the city on a great trajectory…don’t lose the momentum,” he said. 

He highlighted proud accomplishments from his time on the council including economic development, the helipad ordinance, building the arts center without any debt and refocused on patriotic emblems like Memorial Day, Veterans Day and the Gold Star Memorial. 

All the other councilmembers thanked them for their service. Jacob said as one voting member of seven, you can sometimes miss the handprint councilmembers leave on the city.  

“You both have things you can drive around the city and you can point to and say ‘that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t been here,” he said. “I have appreciated serving with the both of you.”