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Votes at a glance: council approves claims, audits, contracts and rate ordinances
Summary
The City of York council approved vendor/official claims, an audit contract, a police contract and multiple ordinances and resolutions (including sewer, landfill and water rate ordinances); roll-call votes were recorded for each item.
At the meeting the City of York council recorded roll-call votes approving a series of claims, contracts and ordinances.
Claims and contracts approved included three elected-official claims (Tony North of North Printing & Office Supply for approximately $21,266; Jeff Piper of Pipers Inc. for $14,310; and Steven Poster of York County Development Corporation for roughly $9,228.83 as listed in the transcript) and approval of claims for the Aug. 22–Sept. 4, 2025 period following a finance-committee review. The council also approved a contract with AMGL to perform the 2024–25 audit not to exceed $35,250, with an additional Kilgore Library Foundation audit fee not to exceed $1,200.
Labor and personnel items included approval of an agreement between the city and the Fraternal Order of Police, York Lodge No. 31 for Sept. 22, 2025–Sept. 30, 2026; staff said the contract contains primarily a cost-of-living increase and modest policy language changes.
Legislative and rate items approved by roll call: Resolution 2025-17 (amend preliminary property tax rate), Resolution 2025-8 (set property tax at $0.23), Resolution 2025-9 (job classifications and pay grades), Resolution 2025-20 (implement contribution changes for police retirement to comply with Nebraska Legislative Bill 179), Ordinance 2399 (sewer rates), Ordinance 2400 (landfill rates), Ordinance 2401 (water rates), Ordinance 2402 (pay range schedule) and Ordinance 2403 (annual appropriation). The meeting record shows that an amendment to Resolution 2025-9 died for lack of a second; the resolution passed and two members were recorded as voting "no."
