City to put de-annexation on ballot

Electric City will ask voters to approve a ballot measure in February that will remove four parcels of land from the city that had been added in an earlier annexation.

The city had started to add the question to last month’s ballot but had missed the deadline to do so.

The city council Dec. 12 unanimously passed Resolution 2023-14 to put the measure on the Feb. 13, 2024 ballot.

The proposal would de-annex all of the state and federal lands surrounding Osborne Bay east of the causeway, which the city annexed several years ago, along with lands west of the causeway that includes Sunbanks Lake Resort.

In other business, the council:

• voted to appoint Councilmember Robin Boyce as mayor pro tempore, giving him authority to act as mayor when they mayor is away or unable in 2024 through 2025,

• voted to appoint TD&H Engineering as the city’s new on-call engineer for the next two years, replacing Century West except for project the firm will need to finish out.

• vote to reinvest $1 million in two maturing bonds back into bonds.