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Council approves emergency tap-fee change, LEADS agreement and several routine items
Summary
At its meeting, the South Lebanon City Council unanimously approved an emergency ordinance adjusting residential tap-in fees, approved an information-exchange agreement with the Warren County Sheriff's Office, and passed a slate of routine motions including minutes, invoices and an appointment to the Warren County Regional Planning Commission.
The South Lebanon City Council voted on several ordinance and resolution items and routine actions during its meeting.
A majority of votes were unanimous. Council members approved Emergency Ordinance 2025-4, which amends Ordinance 2020146 to change residential tap-in fees for properties served through the South Lebanon water system. Council also approved Emergency Resolution 2025-3, an information-exchange agreement with the Warren County Sheriff's Office pertaining to use of LEADS. The council voted to approve invoices and minutes from recent meetings and appointed Lisa Feder as the citys representative to the Warren County Regional Planning Commission with Mary Anne as alternate.
Nut graf: These votes finalized short-term procedural and operational changes the city said are needed to align local fees and interagency data-sharing with existing county and federal processes. The tap-fee change responds to an increase in Moore Countys tap fee that staff said had not been communicated to the city before it took effect. The LEADS agreement formalizes data-sharing with the county sheriffs office.
Details: For the tap-fee ordinance, city staff said the Moore County tap fee had risen after the city set its own related charge; the emergency ordinance updates the citys charge so that new service hook-ups reflect the countys current fee. Council voted to waive the two-reading rule on the emergency ordinance and to adopt by title only; recorded votes on the waiver and on final adoption were recorded as affirmative by the council membership present. For Resolution 2025-3, the council similarly moved to waive the two-reading rule and adopt by title only; that motion carried.
Other formal actions noted in the meeting record: approval of claims/invoices, approval of meeting minutes from November and December sessions, appointment of a representative and alternate to the Warren County Regional Planning Commission, and adoption of Ordinance 2025-1 (transient vendor regulations) on its second reading.
Ending: Councilors handled the votes without extended debate and moved on to staff and committee reports.
