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Pine County updates fee schedule, raises selected service fees
Summary
The Pine County Board adopted multiple fee-schedule updates and Resolution 2025-24, including a recommended $100 registration fee for hemp edible sellers, increases to certain solid-waste and permit fees, and a new $75 charge to process judicial requests to remove property records from public databases.
Pine County commissioners voted to update the county fee schedule and approve Resolution 2025-24, enacting several department-recommended adjustments.
County administrator Kelly Schroeder reviewed line-by-line changes proposed across offices: elimination of a forfeited-property repurchase fee that state law no longer permits; a new recommended $100 registration fee for lower-potency hemp edible sellers (statute allows up to $125); codifying a longstanding $20 TIF maintenance fee; removal of several health & human services fees tied to eliminated positions; and several modest increases to solid-waste and permitting fees (mattress recycling from $8 to $10, light truck/SUV tire disposal from $3.50 to $4.00, and a proposed trail-lease rate of $0.07 per foot). The recorder’s office will charge up to $75 when judicial officers request removal of property records from public databases, per the new legislative program.
Other adjustments include jail event pay at $102 per hour, an increase to some sewage permit fees (full system permit to $350 from $300), and plat books moving from $25 to $30 to cover rising costs. Schroeder emphasized many changes reflect statutory updates or cost recovery rather than new revenue strategies.
Commissioner Ludwig moved adoption of the fee schedule and Resolution 2025-24; Commissioner Holland seconded and the board approved the package. The changes were described as mostly rate clarifications and cost-recovery measures rather than broad new revenue initiatives.
