Coolidge council adopts water and sewer rate ordinances and approves $34,000 in transfers

The City of Coolidge council on June 10, 2025, unanimously adopted new water and sewer rate ordinances and approved reimbursement transfers totaling $34,000 from the Water/Sewer Enterprise Fund to the General Fund.

During the City Manager’s report, Lonnie Adamson said the Finance Department is preparing for the city audit scheduled for June 30, 2025. The council approved reimbursement transfers listed in the minutes as $7,000 for June 2025 and $6,750 per month for July through October 2025, with the minutes reporting a stated total of $34,000. The transfers were approved on a motion by Elizabeth Leger and a second by W.C. Smith and the minutes record the vote as unanimously approved.

The council also adopted an ordinance to set water rates and a separate ordinance to set sewer rates. Both ordinances were moved by Elizabeth Leger and seconded by W.C. Smith; the minutes record both adoptions as unanimously approved. The minutes do not include the ordinance numbers, the specific rate schedules, or effective dates beyond the adoption record; those details were not specified in the public minutes.

Other routine business recorded in the minutes included approval of the May 2025 workshop and council meeting minutes and the bills to be paid; those items were approved by motion and recorded as unanimously approved. The meeting minutes list Mayor Diane H. Causey and council members Elizabeth Leger, W.C. Smith, Tonia Gentry and Melissa Johnson (participating by phone) as present and note Freddie Johnson and Todd Braswell under absent.

The council’s next recorded procedural milestone is the city audit on June 30, 2025, noted in the Finance Department report.