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Committee votes to forward stormwater ordinance and proposed utility fee to full board as separate items
Summary
After staff outlined mandatory five-year ordinance updates required by TDEC and proposed a non-mandatory stormwater utility, the committee voted to send the ordinance update and the proposed utility fee separately to the full board; staff gave an illustrative $3 base rate and an approximate first-year revenue estimate of $700,000.
Speaker 7 (Staff presenter) briefed the joint committee on a required five-year update to the city's stormwater ordinance to comply with TDEC requirements and introduced a recommended, but optional, stormwater utility. "We are required by the state to upgrade our ordinance every 5 years," Speaker 7 said, adding that the stormwater utility was included in the draft as a recommendation rather than a required element.
Speaker 7 described how a separate ordinance or resolution would later set specific fee rates and that the committee would see the fee structure and budget impacts after public notice…
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