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Wyoming council adopts 2025 organizational resolutions, updates fee schedule and schedules cannabis work session
Summary
The Wyoming City Council on Jan. 7 approved routine annual items — including designation of the official newspaper, banking depositories and meeting calendar — updated the city’s 2025 fee schedule to reflect new state guidance on cannabis retail and other program changes, and scheduled a Jan. 21 work session on retail cannabis rules.
The Wyoming City Council on Jan. 7 approved a set of routine organizational resolutions for 2025, updated the city fee schedule to add new permits and standby fees, and scheduled a council work session on retail cannabis licensing.
City staff recommended the Chicago County Press as the city’s official newspaper and the council approved the designation by motion and unanimous voice vote. Council also designated the city’s depository banks and investment vehicles and approved an annual electronic fund transfer resolution authorizing the city administrator to make certain transfers in advance of council claims approval when needed, such as for bond payments.
The fee-schedule update includes new entries to reflect state changes on cannabis retail registration, a new fire-department special-event standby fee and a police special-event standby fee; updates to towing charges and food-truck license terms to match state statute; adjusted water and surface-water rates tied to the most recent utility rate study; removal of hydrant-meter deposits; updates to water-meter costs (pass-through purchase costs) and revised public-works equipment rental fees. On the fire-standby fee, council member questions prompted staff to clarify how the charge would be applied.
City staff explained that the city would not charge internal city events. As staff put it, “If an organization would request to have fire departments on standby for an event to provide fire protection,” that organization — not the city’s own department for city-sponsored events — would be billed. Staff gave examples including church events and a prior standby for the Snap Out Suicide event.
The council also approved its 2025 meeting calendar (first and third Tuesdays), the 2026 budget calendar and appointed members to boards and commissions. The council re-elected Member Lugar as acting mayor to serve in the mayor’s absence under Minnesota statute. All routine items on the consent and annual calendars were approved by voice vote with no recorded dissent.
Separately, city staff and the city attorney recommended a January 21 work session ahead of the next regular meeting to brief council on state Office of Cannabis Management rules and other developments so the city can review potential retail licensing and local ordinance decisions before any businesses apply. City staff told the council that prospective applicants have expressed early interest and that, depending on how state guidance evolves, retail applicants could appear in coming months.
The actions taken were procedural and administrative; the council did not adopt new local cannabis regulations on Jan. 7 and framed the Jan. 21 work session as informational and preparatory.
