New Springville Police Chief New position a dream job for Lance Haight While visiting family in Utah last October, Jennefer Haight looked at various communities and found the perfect development in Mapleton near its border with Springville. It was sold out, but one buyer had backed out, and Jennefer quickly put down a deposit on the lot. Then she called her husband Lance Haight, who was at home in California, to tell him the news. “I said, ‘I’m not sure exactly where that is,’” Lance Haight said, but he informed her he had just found an opening for a police chief position in a city called Springville. He applied before she returned home. “When I was interviewed, I told them my wife is moving here with or without me, so no pressure, but this would be a great job,” Haight said. “So everything just lined up and I was fortunate enough to get the job here.” Haight began his new job as Springville City’s director of public safety on Jan. 4 after working for the San Fran-
cisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department, or BART, for 23 years. There, he served as an officer, sergeant, lieutenant and deputy chief. “This is absolutely a dream job for me,” Haight said during an interview in his office at the Springville Police Department. About 250 people served under him while he was deputy chief at BART, and he didn’t get to interact much with them or get to know them. “I was looking for an agency where I could have more direct contact with everybody that I worked with, so Springville is great in that regard,” he said. Born in Provo, Haight later moved to Boise, Idaho, where he attended high school. While he served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rochester, New York, his parents moved to Modesto, California. He returned home and attended college in California, earning a bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering at California Polytechnic State University.
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After graduation, he and his wife moved to Utah where he worked for an engineering firm in downtown Salt Lake City. After about a year, they decided to move back to California to be closer to family. Haight worked for a few more years in engineering, eventually deciding it
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