Mike Carey is a candidate for Salt Lake County Council At Large. The Primary election is June 25th.

Join Senator John D. Johnson and Salt Lake County Council candidate Mike Carey as they discuss the pressing issues facing Salt Lake County and Mike’s vision for its future.

Meet Mike Carey

Born and raised in New Jersey, I am the only child to a young, single mother. As an unexceptional student in my youth more preoccupied with sports and friends, I learned many lessons from every success and failure. Those lessons continued at Alfred University in western New York, where I paid my way through school with student loans and by working while being a full-time student, eventually graduating in 1999 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Since 2016, I have had the honor of serving on Alfred University’s Board of Trustees.

Whether it was pursuing my degree, grinding out a win on the rugby pitch with my teammates, or digging trenches for gas lines in the hot and humid New Jersey summers to afford the next year’s tuition shortfall, it took grit and tenacity to get to where I am today. I met my wife Jen towards the end of college in New Jersey, we married in 2000, and moved to Silver Spring, MD, to start our careers and a family with three great kids.

I found my way into the construction industry in 2001 and thus began a 23-year career with every project being larger and more complex than the last. Each new assignment brought more responsibility – larger teams, bigger budgets, tighter schedules. During that journey, I had the privilege of working with thousands of amazing people – many who are still dear friends – on dozens of projects totaling nearly $7B. These included some of our country’s most incredible facilities like the NIH, the new Walter Reed, the Penn Pavilion, and the Utah Data Center, which brought me and my family to Utah in 2011.

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