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Trent Staggs Trent Staggs is mayor of Riverton, Utah. He was elected in 2018 after serving on the city council for four years. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Early life, family, education Staggs was raised in Orem as one of 10 children. He graduated from Bingham High School in South Jordan and served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tahiti. He graduated from the University of Utah with degrees in political science and economics. He later earned an MBA from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He is married and has two children.

Career Staggs has been an executive in start-up and Fortune 500 organizations in the direct sales, finance, and technology industries for more than 20 years. After business school, Staggs worked for brokerage firm Morgan Stanley as the VP of online operations. Following four years there, he started his own consulting firm, Staggs Management Group. He also served as an executive of Unicity International.

Most recently, he served on the board of directors of clean-energy technology company Vivakor, which he helped take public in 2022. He also serves on several corporate and civic advisory boards.

Riverton Mayor Staggs was elected mayor of Riverton in 2017 with 60% of the vote. In 2021, he was re-elected with 100% of the vote.

During his term as mayor, he led an initiative to help the local economic challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, which included the elimination of licensing fees for businesses and certain signage restrictions. He left the Unified Police Department (UPD) of Greater Salt Lake in favor if one that serves exclusively Riverton City, based on concerns that low-crime cities in Salt Lake County, like Riverton, were paying too much for the service and not seeing an increase in the number of officers. In June 2019, the city swore in 35 officers for the new police department.

He also led an initiative to reduce misuse of opioids in the city in partnership with Utah-based medication disposal organization called NarcX.

In 2019, he rejected a proposal that would have increased the salary of the Riverton mayor.

In 2023, he was named best mayor in Utah by the Best of State organization.