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Alma City Council suspends three-reading rule and adopts ordinance setting new municipal gas rates
Summary
The council voted unanimously Nov. 19 to suspend the three-reading rule and adopt an ordinance to establish new municipal gas rates; meeting minutes show inconsistent ordinance numbering in the record.
At its Nov. 19 meeting the Alma City Council voted to suspend the statutory rule requiring three separate readings and then adopted an ordinance to establish new municipal gas rates.
Council Member Tom Moulton introduced the ordinance and moved to suspend the rule requiring three readings; Council Member Larry Casper seconded and the motion to suspend the rules passed on a roll call vote. Moulton then moved for final passage and Casper seconded. On roll call the council voted yes: Casper, Wheeler, Mahalek and Moulton; the mayor declared the ordinance adopted.
The meeting minutes record the ordinance in multiple ways: materials introduced were labeled as Ordinance 2026-1 in the record, while the roll call for final passage references Ordinance Number 2026-02. The minutes do not include the text of the rate schedule; the record shows only that the ordinance was read by title and enacted following suspension of the three-reading rule.
The council did not record any dissenting votes. The ordinance will be published as required by law, and the mayor and clerk attested to its passage in the meeting minutes.
