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Council approves utility fee and ethics-code updates; public-alley vacation advanced to next meeting
Summary
Valparaiso council adopted two ordinances — raising a Damon Run capacity fee and restoring ethics code references — and advanced an alley-vacation request to a later meeting after public hearing and recommendations from planning and public-works boards.
The Valparaiso Common Council on July 28 approved Ordinance 14-20-25 and Ordinance 15-20-25 and advanced Ordinance 16-20-25 to a future meeting following a public hearing.
Ordinance 14-20-25 (capacity fee amendment): The council approved an increase to the capacity fee for new connections in the Damon Run utility area. The fee will rise from $2,700 to $4,909; of the new amount, the City of Portage will receive $4,000 and the balance will go to Valparaiso City Utilities. The council held a public hearing; no members of the public spoke for or against the fee at the hearing, and the ordinance passed on second reading by a 7-0 roll-call vote.
Ordinance 15-20-25 (ethics-code housekeeping): The council approved insertion of five statute references into the municipal ethics code that had been included in the original 2006 ordinance but omitted from…
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