Stephanie Nanavich, City of Yelm finance director, took to the podium to present on potential updates to “clean up” language within Yelm Municipal Code during a Yelm City Council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Nanavich sought a motion to approve Ordinance No. 1156, which amended the Yelm Municipal Code after unanimous approval from Yelm City Council.
“We have some clean-up of the municipal code in Ordinance No. 1156. Section 5.20 will be refueled,” Nanavich said. “It is the public and teenage dances section of the municipal code. It basically cleans up and streamlines out-of-date practices for that one. We will also repeal public parades and demonstrations, which is section 5.24, and circuses and carnivals, which is section 5.28.”
Nanavich noted that this language is also addressed within other chapter of Yelm Municipal Code, and is duplicative. She claimed these specific areas of the code could be removed in the effort to clean up Yelm Municipal Code.
“Also, in section 13.14.020, we are going to add language to the eligibility requirements that a person must reside within the dwelling to receive the utility discount for disabled and/or elderly — low income elderly,” Nanavich said. “Currently, it does not specify that the person receiving the discount should reside in the dwelling. It’s meant for that. It’s meant for the person in the dwelling to receive the discount. We’re just cleaning up the language in that section of the code.”
She claimed an example of this would be if a property owner who lives outside of the city rents their Yelm-based property to a tenant, and they want the discount applied to the property owner account even though the property owner doesn’t live in the dwelling.
“This is in line with neighboring municipalities, that they have this requirement,” she said.
