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Grant County holds public hearing on proposed five-year building fee schedule (Ordinance 2026.01)
Summary
Grant County Court on March 4 held a public hearing on Ordinance 2026.01, a proposed five-year building plan fee schedule that would index permit fees to the CPI-W to help cover rising operational costs; Planning Director Shannon Springer read the fee schedule and answered questions. No adoption vote was recorded at the meeting; next steps were not specified.
The Grant County Court held a public hearing March 4 on Ordinance 2026.01, a proposed five-year building plan fee schedule intended to align permit revenues with operating costs. Planning Department Director Shannon Springer presented the ordinance, read the statutory fee schedule aloud as required, and said the county seeks to implement an automatic indexing mechanism tied to the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
Springer told the court that Grant County implemented its first substantial building-fee increase since 2013 last year and described the current proposal as a way to "keep pace with increased costs" by adjusting fees automatically rather than through infrequent large increases. She noted Harney County is adopting the same ordinance approach. The hearing included public comment; the transcript records the reading and comment period but no formal vote to adopt the ordinance occurred at this session. The court did not set a final adoption date during the March 4 meeting.
