Story City council adopts ordinance changing sewer-user minimum charge for multiunit dwellings

The Story City Council voted unanimously May 4 to adopt Ordinance No. 374, which amends Section 99.07 of the city code to establish a sewer-user charge for sewer-only customers in multiple-unit dwellings. Councilperson O’Connor introduced the ordinance and Councilperson Solberg moved for adoption, seconded by Councilperson Phillips. After a separate motion to suspend the requirement that an ordinance be considered at two meetings (moved by Councilperson O’Connor and seconded by Councilperson Ostrem), the council voted 4-0 to suspend the two-reading rule and to pass the ordinance on final reading.

The ordinance was described on the agenda as establishing a sewer user charge for sewer-only customers; the transcript lists the matter under Legal Items and records the motions and roll-call votes but does not include the ordinance’s specific dollar amounts or rate schedule. The council’s recorded vote on both suspending the two-reading requirement and on final passage was Aye: Ostrem, Phillips, Solberg, and O’Connor; Nay: None.

The change affects multiple-unit dwellings that are sewer-only customers under Section 99.07 of the Story City Code. The council record supplied at the meeting does not specify the new rate or the implementation date; those details were not stated on the record and are therefore not reported here. The Mayor declared Ordinance No. 374 duly passed at the conclusion of the roll call.

The ordinance alters local sewer-user charge rules and will apply to the affected category of customers once the specific rates and an effective date are posted in the city’s code or administrative materials. The city clerk’s attestation appears at the end of the meeting minutes and the Mayor declared the ordinance passed.