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Spring City adopts four ordinances, including FY2025 budget and utility rate changes
Summary
Spring City commissioners on June 27 adopted four ordinances — adding telecommunications rules to zoning, approving the FY2024–25 budget and tax rate, amending the 2023–24 budget, and changing the utility rate schedule — all by unanimous vote.
Spring City Mayor Woody Evans and the Board of Commissioners adopted four ordinances on June 27 during a regular meeting and public hearing.
Ordinance 2024-03, which adds telecommunications structure regulations to the town zoning ordinance, was approved after a motion from Commissioner Reba Murphy and a second from Commissioner Jody Bauer. Ordinance 2024-04, adopting the annual budget and tax rate for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2025, was approved on a motion from Commissioner Jody Bauer seconded by Vice‑Mayor Leon Locke. The board also adopted Ordinance 2024-05, an amendment to the town's operating and capital budget for fiscal year 2023–24, and Ordinance 2024-06, which amends the town's utility service rate schedule. All four ordinances passed with unanimous recorded votes of Commissioners Jody Bauer and Reba Murphy, Vice‑Mayor Leon Locke and Mayor Woody Evans; Commissioner Kevin Jenkins was absent for the meeting.
Why it matters: adopting the annual budget and tax rate sets Spring City's spending and revenue plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1; the utility rate ordinance updates the town's charges for water, sewer or other utility services (the ordinance text as read at the hearing provides the specific rate schedule). The telecommunications zoning changes add local rules for placement or design of telecommunications structures within Spring City’s zoning framework.
What happened next: the commission recorded each ordinance as the second and final reading and approved each by motion and unanimous vote. No public discussion of the ordinances is recorded in the minutes beyond the formal readings and votes.
Votes at a glance: Ordinance 2024-03 (telecommunications structure regulations) — Moved: Commissioner Reba Murphy; Second: Commissioner Jody Bauer; Outcome: approved (4–0, 1 absent). Ordinance 2024-04 (FY2024–25 budget and tax rate) — Moved: Commissioner Jody Bauer; Second: Vice‑Mayor Leon Locke; Outcome: approved (4–0, 1 absent). Ordinance 2024-05 (FY2023–24 budget amendment) — Moved: Commissioner Jody Bauer; Second: Commissioner Reba Murphy; Outcome: approved (4–0, 1 absent). Ordinance 2024-06 (utility rate schedule amendment) — Moved: Commissioner Jody Bauer; Second: Commissioner Reba Murphy; Outcome: approved (4–0, 1 absent).
The commission took these votes during the public hearing portion of the meeting; the minutes show no separate public comment on the ordinances. The meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
