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Lake Wales adopts ordinance updating industrial pretreatment rules
Summary
The City Commission of Lake Wales approved Ordinance 2025-02, amending Chapter 21 (Utilities) to revise industrial pretreatment provisions; the measure passed on second reading by unanimous roll call.
The City Commission of the City of Lake Wales on second reading approved Ordinance 2025-02, amending chapter 21 (Utilities), division 3 (industrial pretreatment).
The change updates the city code that governs industrial pretreatment requirements for wastewater dischargers in the city. City Clerk read the ordinance title at the public hearing; no members of the public requested to speak on the item before commission action.
Commissioners moved and seconded approval, and the commission voted by roll call: Commissioner Thompson — yes; Commissioner Williams — yes; Commissioner Gillespie — yes; Deputy Mayor Curtis Gibson — yes; Mayor Jack Hilligoss — yes. The ordinance will take effect as provided in the ordinance text.
City Attorney noted a separate, pending litigation matter and asked the commission to consider an out-of-sunshine meeting for that litigation under Florida Statutes; the request was discussed but no formal public-action on scheduling was recorded in the transcript.
The record contains no further details of substantive changes to Chapter 21 beyond the ordinance title as read at the meeting.
