Utah County legislators said Saturday they are at a point in the legislative session where they are sure which bills will pass on issues ranging from tax reform to transportation.

The last installment of Eggs and Issues, an Intermountain Health Care-sponsored opportunity for community members to met with Utah County legislators, focused primarily on the session's hot issues. House Majority Leader Jeff Alexander said every legislator came to the session with high expectations, but they were able to reach a compromise on most issues.

"I guess we could say that even in a year where there seems to be a lot of money, if everybody goes away ticked off, then maybe we did a great job," he jokingly said to the group. "There will always be people that don't get exactly what they want when it comes to a budget process."

For most of the legislative session, Alexander said the House of Representatives and the Senate faced an impasse concerning tax reform. The House favored repealing the food tax and the Senate supported an income tax reduction. House and Senate leaders met Thursday morning, he said, and they reached a compromise.

"We basically said 'Let's not leave until we figure something out,' " he said. "It's just a matter of communication."

Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo said the compromise has multiple components including:

A $70 million reduction in the income tax

A 2 percent reduction in the state's 4.75 percent tax on food, a tax cut of about $70 million

A $20 million tax cut for business as an economic development tool

Bramble also said Utah County legislators played a big role in overcoming the tax reform impasse.

"A great deal of the tribute to this breakthrough is attributed to Jeff Alexander," he said. "Without Jeff working it out, it wouldn't have happened."

Rep. Rebecca Lockhart, R-Provo, said a bill that apportions $150 million from state sales and use tax revenue for transportation cleared the Senate this week. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. needs to approve it to become a law.

"We believe that sales tax associated with the purchase and operation of a motor vehicle should be dedicated to transportation," she said.

She also said it is likely that a bill authorizing public-private partnerships to build toll roads will pass. Despite opposition, Lockhart said toll roads are a feasible way to pay for needed roads, as opposed to a gas tax increase.

"Some people say 'It's just not fair,' " she said. "My response to them is someday when you're sitting on your roads for hours and hours, going 5 mph, you will beg for a toll lane because you need your road that bad."

Steve Densley, president of the Provo-Orem Chamber of Commerce, said even though the session ends Wednesday, the Chamber of Commerce will still host a monthly, or quarterly, meeting with legislators in preparation for next year's legislative session.