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Council OKs $18,000 to hire ordinance-drafter for solar, battery storage and data-center rules
Summary
Ripley County Council approved an $18,000 appropriation to hire someone to draft an ordinance regulating solar, battery storage and data centers; approval was contingent on whether the new Area Planning Director can complete the ordinance and passed 5–2.
The Ripley County Council approved an $18,000 appropriation from the county general fund for legal services to draft an ordinance on solar, battery storage and data centers. The item was presented as an additional appropriation for County General/Legal Services and included a contingency: if the newly hired Area Planning Director can draft the ordinance himself, the expenditure would not be needed.
Councilman Andrew Decker moved the appropriation and Stan Wiedeman seconded. The motion passed by a 5–2 vote. The minutes record the contingency language explicitly; the council discussed whether the hire of an Area Planning Director would obviate the need to outsource drafting. The appropriation is logged in the minutes with the stated purpose and vote tally.
