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Pinellas Park council adopts changes to utility billing code, including new sewer-meter authority
Summary
The City Council unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 2025-26 updating Chapter 10 of the city code to rename connection charges as capital recovery fees, index deposit interest, add sanitary sewer meter rules and allow the city to install sewer meters on properties suspected of excessive usage.
Pinellas Park — The City Council on Thursday adopted Ordinance No. 2025-26, amending Chapter 10 of the city code to rename utility "connection charges" as "capital recovery fees," change how interest on deposits is calculated and add new provisions authorizing the city to install and inspect sanitary sewer meters on selected properties.
The ordinance, which was read by title at the meeting and approved on second and final reading, makes several technical and substantive changes to the city's utility-billing ordinance. Joy Yates, assistant finance administrator, told the council the name change better reflects the purpose of the fee and that the city will move deposit-interest calculations to a federal-funds index. "Our biggest change here is adding in a new section...we are going to ask that we can have the ability to install sewer meters on…
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