Council schedules Sept. 17 workshop on utility rate advisory committee recommendations

City staff told the council they will spend August working with the Utility Rate Advisory Committee and scheduled a council workshop for Sept. 17 to discuss the committee's recommendations.

"We will be spending the month of August working with the utility rate advisory committee, and we plan to bring something to you in September," Mary, a city staff member, told the council. She said the council was being asked to post a workshop for Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 6 p.m., to allow full engagement on the committee's recommendations.

Mary also said the hope is that the council "will come to a vote on the '20," a phrase she used in the meeting packet discussion; staff did not clarify that phrase during the meeting. No formal ordinance or rate change was adopted at the session.

The council approved posting the Sept. 17 workshop on the calendar and will consider staff's material at a future meeting for formal action. Staff asked council members to reach out during the August recess with questions.

The workshop scheduling and the staff's August work plan frame the utility-rate matter as an upcoming council decision that will return to the agenda; no final rate changes or budget appropriations were made at this meeting.