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Council moves utility code into fee schedule, schedules hearings on vacant-property registration
Summary
Council reviewed multi-chapter updates to utility code to move rates into a fee schedule, remove obsolete 1960s/1980s language, raise certain tap fees, and accept EPA-mandated wastewater pretreatment updates; public hearings for related ordinances set for Nov. 24.
City staff told council that much of the utility code had not been updated since the 1960s and that moving rates to a centralized fee schedule would allow more frequent updates. Ms. Barone and interim Public Utilities Director Perry Mickley outlined changes to water-main extensions, tap fees, oversizing agreements and other modernizations.
"We really wanted to move the utility rates to the fee…
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