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Williston commission approves ordinance letting utility fees be set by resolution
Summary
The Williston City Commission voted 5-0 Nov. 10 to approve Ordinance 1174, which consolidates the city's utility fee schedule and allows future fee changes to be made by resolution rather than by amending the ordinance.
Williston's City Commission voted unanimously on Nov. 10 to approve Ordinance 1174, a consolidated utility fee schedule that will allow the city to change utility fees by resolution instead of by further ordinance.
Finance Director Hercules Cummings presented the ordinance as a way to remove the city's existing pricing structure from the ordinance text and make future changes administratively via resolution. President Howard Klug opened and closed the public hearing on the ordinance with no public comments recorded.
Commissioner James Bervig moved to approve Ordinance 1174 and Commissioner Lucas Gjovig seconded; the motion carried 5-0 (Ayes: Brad Bekkedahl, Victoria Siemieniewski, James Bervig, Lucas Gjovig, Howard Klug).
The change is procedural: it consolidates fee language so elected officials can update rates through resolutions, which are simpler to amend than ordinances. City staff indicated the structure will centralize where fees are listed and will allow the commission to act by resolution when adjustments are needed.
Next steps: because the commission voted to approve the ordinance at the Nov. 10 meeting, the consolidated schedule will be implemented according to the ordinance language and subsequent fee adjustments will be processed by resolution, as allowed by the new ordinance.
