Cedar council will weigh a Heritage Center fee cut for Red Acre's conference only
No citywide rate rollback on Nov. 4; one organizer's reduction request goes to the next action meeting.
CEDAR CITY - Groups that book Festival Hall are not getting a rate rollback for now: on Nov. 4 the City Council voted only to put Red Acre Center's request for a lower Heritage Center fee on its next action agenda, according to the meeting recording. A speaker at the dais clarified that vote covers Red Acre's request, not the fees overall.
Why this matters: Red Acre Center's bill for its Utah Farm and Food Conference nearly doubled under the new Heritage Center rates. Co-founder Cyndria Patterson told the council this year's estimate was $12,162, while the most the group had ever paid was $7,000. Under the motion, how much of a cut it might get is still undecided.
Heritage Theater and Festival Hall manager Jason Clark said staff meant to notify every group holding reservations but missed some, and that the new rates took effect at once because a Sept. 1 start date was left out of the resolution.
We are human, and we made some errors, and some people slipped through the cracks.
The mayor credited Councilman Schmidt with the second; no opposition was heard on the voice vote.
Source: Cedar City Council work meeting agenda and packet, Nov. 4, 2026; Cedar City Council meeting recording, Nov. 4, 2026.