New Bluffdale Council member wants to maintain city’s beauty

New Bluffdale City Councilmember Ty Nielsen was born in South Jordan and was the 11^th of 13 children.

The family lived on a 20-acre farm, but did not raise farm crops. They specialized in horses, goats and pigs. He has three brothers and nine sisters and all of them learned to work on the one-acre garden where they grew their food and learned how to take care of the earth and pull “lots of weeds,” he said

Nielsen’s father was an electrical engineer but called himself a “jack of all trades but master of none.”

“He could do anything and do it well,” Nielsen said.

Nielsen graduated from Bingham High School in 1980 and attended BYU for a while before receiving his bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of Phoenix.

“It was a 10-year plan and I graduated from college on my 30^th birthday,” he said.

Nielsen belongs to the local chapter of the Utah Community Forest Council and works as an arborist for Herriman City. He has been certified as a municipal specialist and certified arborist by the International Society of Arborculture.

He has been married to his wife Danielle for six years and has one son, Dustin, who is 14 years old. He has been a resident of Bluffdale for seven years.

His knowledge has led him to work at Thanksgiving Point, The Gardens at Temple Square and Gardener Village where he loved working with the plants and landscaping.

At Thanksgiving Point, he became the equestrian manager and began the pony rides there.

He extended his talents by participating in “Touched by an Angel” when it was filmed in Salt Lake City.

For fun, he drove carriages in downtown Salt Lake City enjoying the people he served and the horses he loved.

He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tampa where he loved the climate and the people of that multicultural state.

His desires for Bluffdale City are to make sure the city keeps the beauty that surrounds it and takes care of the land on which it lays.