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County adopts 2026 fee schedule updates, adds lower‑potency hemp registration fee
Summary
Pine County approved its annual fee-schedule updates, removing obsolete fees, modestly increasing some service fees and adding a $100 registration fee for lower‑potency hemp edibles to align with tobacco registration; the board approved associated resolutions.
County Administrator Kelly Schwarter walked commissioners through department‑level fee proposals during the annual fee review. The package removed fees the state now controls (for example, certain foster‑home licensing charges), adjusted solid‑waste nonresident disposal fees and some tire/mattress recycling fees, consolidated some zoning/building permit fee tiers, and proposed updated land-lease rates.
On the hemp registration, Schwarter said state law allows counties to charge up to $125 for registration and that staff recommended a $100 fee "in order to keep that in line with our tobacco" registration. The board opened and closed a public hearing with no speakers and approved the fee changes and associated resolutions (including Resolution 2025‑24 amending the solid waste fee schedule and the packet motion labeled 2025‑42 in the record).
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