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Votes at a glance: council approves bonds, assessments, rates and multiple ordinances
Summary
At its April 23 meeting the council approved consent items, sidewalk special-assessment schedule, a budget amendment resolution, several utility and solid-waste rate ordinances, and a bond‑sale authorization; most measures passed unanimously, with the building‑code ordinance separately recorded in earlier debate.
Clive — The City Council adopted multiple routine but consequential items on April 23.
What passed (by the voice/recorded votes announced in the meeting): - Consent items: approved 5–0. - Resolution approving final assessment schedule for the 2025 sidewalk repair program: public hearing closed and resolution approved by a 5–0 vote. - Resolution approving FY 25–26 budget amendment No. 1: public hearing closed and resolution approved 5–0. - Ordinances 1175, 1176 and 1177 (utility/operational ordinances associated with the FY27 budget): each was placed upon passage and adopted (clerk announced passage). Specifics discussed included a 0% transition for some residential/commercial fixed/variable rate changes, a 2% irrigation increase, a 4.5% sewer increase, and a 3% stormwater increase; solid‑waste fixed rate was increased from $16.36 to $16.80 following Metro Waste Authority’s rate determination and council action to approve revised solid‑waste rates. - Resolution authorizing the loan agreement for G.O. Purpose Bond Sale Series 2026A: council authorized the loan agreement after staff reported on a competitive sale (winning true interest cost ~3.4722% and net interest cost cited as $1,807,687); motion passed 5–0.
Several items had no public opposition at the hearings. The building and fire code ordinance (ordinance 1174) was adopted on final reading after a substantive debate about the wind‑load standard; that item is covered in a separate report.
Records: The clerk posted votes in the meeting for items listed above; where the transcript records a vote tally the numbers are reproduced here as announced. If a particular tally was not read aloud the record shows only that the clerk posted the vote and the item passed.
