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Council adopts ordinance amending sewer customer classes and ERU assignments
Summary
On second reading the council adopted an ordinance amending Mount Angel municipal code section 59.52.091 to clarify assignment of equivalent residential units (ERUs) for unmetered nonindustrial sewer customers; staff said the revised approach uses existing council action form language and avoids rewriting code.
The council adopted an ordinance on its second reading amending Mount Angel municipal code section 59.52.091 to address nonindustrial unmetered sewer customer classes and the process for assigning equivalent residential units (ERUs). Staff explained that rather than rewrite the code and incur additional attorney fees, the revision relies on an existing council-action provision that allows a nonindustrial user to make a case for irrigation usage and associated ERU assignment under the city’s existing method.
During the meeting staff cited Oregon Revised Statutes as the legal context for the process; a councilor moved to adopt the ordinance as attached to the packet, the motion was seconded, and the clerk conducted a roll call with present councilors recorded voting "Aye." The ordinance passed on the recorded roll-call vote.
Staff emphasized the change was intended to be cleaner and more universal and to benefit both the city and affected customers; councilors had an opportunity to ask questions but no substantive amendments were recorded in the meeting transcript.
