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DeKalb County commissioners decline hearing on Saint Joe Spencerville sewer rate petition
Summary
DeKalb County commissioners adopted Resolution 2025-R-6 on May 1, 2025, finding a petition challenging a Saint Joe Spencerville Regional Sewer District rate increase failed to meet statutory form requirements (missing names/addresses) and declining to hold a public hearing; petitioners were told their remedy is to appeal to court.
DeKalb County commissioners on May 1 adopted Resolution 2025-R-6, finding that a petition dated April 16, 2025, opposing a rate ordinance for the Saint Joe Spencerville Regional Sewer District did not meet statutory filing requirements because it lacked the required names and addresses for each petitioner, and therefore the board had no statutory authority to conduct a public hearing.
A county staff member told the board that “the petitions that I received had no address on them and doesn't meet the statutory requirement,” and said that without the required…
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