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Cerro Gordo board pauses planned May water-rate increase, agrees to nullify ordinance
Summary
Trustees decided at their April 21 meeting not to implement a planned water-rate increase set for May and agreed to nullify the ordinance that would have enacted it. The board reached consensus after Trustee Frazier raised the issue during trustee reports.
At the Village of Cerro Gordo's April 21 meeting, the board agreed not to implement a planned water-rate increase that had been scheduled to take effect in May.
Trustee Frazier raised the matter during trustee reports, asking, "Water rates increasing in May, should we stop the increase for now." The board reached consensus to halt the increase and to nullify the ordinance that would have pushed the higher rates into effect.
The discussion occurred near the end of the meeting during the trustees' reports. No formal roll-call vote to enact a new rate increase was recorded during that agenda item; the minutes reflect the board consensus to pause the increase and that the ordinance will be nullified. Questions about the fiscal impact or an alternate timetable for any future rate change were not specified in the minutes.
DPW Mark Blickensderfer asked that employee compensation be placed on next month's agenda, and President Powers mentioned a Veterans Park retaining-wall matter with a $35,000 maintenance limit; those items were noted for future discussion.
