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Echo council approves appointments, fee changes and bank-signature updates
Summary
At its Jan. 14 meeting, the Echo City Council named an acting mayor and city attorney, revised community-center and service fees, and updated bank check and safe-deposit signers. Several motions passed unanimously; a few motions recorded a city council abstention.
The Echo City Council met Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, at the Community Center and approved a series of administrative actions affecting city operations, finances and records.
The council voted to designate Dan Larsen as acting mayor under Resolution 2025-001; the resolution passed with Larsen recorded as abstaining. The council also approved Citizens Alliance Bank as the city depository, appointed Matthew Gross as city attorney and named Tri-County News as the official city newspaper; those appointments carried without recorded opposition.
Council members revised several city fees. They set community-center rental rates at $100 for the Main Hall with a $200 damage deposit, $200 for the Main Hall with liquor and a $200 damage deposit, and $50 for the Back Room with a $25 damage deposit. The council also approved increasing the sewer usage fee to $0.51 per 100 gallons and raised fire call fees to $1,000 per call; both fee changes were adopted unanimously.
On banking and record access, the council approved multiple signer changes. It removed James Busack and Councilman Darren Gjerset as check signers and approved Mayor Nichole Kepler, Acting Mayor Dan Larsen and Clerk Brian Pitzl as authorized check signers (the motion passed with Larsen abstaining). Separately, the council removed Busack as a signer on the city certificate of deposit and added Dan Larsen to the CD signature card (Larsen abstained), and removed Busack as a signer on the safe deposit box and added Mayor Kepler while retaining Clerk Pitzl as a signer (motion carried unanimously).
The council handled several routine matters by resolution and consent agenda, including approving Resolution 2025-002 to accept donations and authorizing a county project within municipal corporate limits. A consent agenda motion covering bills, payroll and bank information passed unanimously.
Votes at a glance: motions approving minutes, resolutions 2025-001 and 2025-002, the county-project resolution, fee and rate adjustments, appointments and signer changes all passed during the session; where the record notes an abstention it is recorded above. The meeting adjourned at 7:00 p.m.
