Cheney council rushes resolution to fix billing snafu

Cheney officials took the unusual step at the Jan. 23 City Council meeting of requesting passage of a resolution without actually having an official copy of the document to present to council.

The resolution read aloud into the record by city attorney Stanley Schwartz, and passed unanimously, amended electrical power rate increases adopted by the council when it approved the 2018 budget. The increases would have created a billing error that could have had a huge impact on commercial power customers who exceed 15,000 kilowatt hours of usage.

In a Jan. 24 email, Light Department Director Steve B...

 

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