Troy council authorizes city to sign utility annexation and service agreements for outside properties

The Troy City Council on Sept. 2 adopted Resolution R46-20-25 authorizing the Director of Public Service and Safety to execute utility annexation and service agreements with property owners outside the city's corporate limits who request water and/or sanitary sewer service.

Under the authorized agreement, property owners adjacent to existing city utility mains who are required to connect would agree to annex to Troy when their property becomes contiguous to the city boundary; owners would pay all connection fees and then be subject to Troy's water and sewer rates. The agreement would be memorialized by a covenant or restriction recorded against the property, the committee report said.

The buildings and utilities committee reviewed the proposed standard utility annexation and service agreement and recommended preparing legislation. Council moved to suspend the readings and adopted the resolution the same night.

Councilmember Bobby Phillips, Councilwoman Lynn Snee and Council President Samuel Pierce were listed as sponsors of the committee report recommending the measure. The resolution passed on a recorded roll-call vote.

The meeting minutes and committee report did not specify the exact form of the recorded covenant, deadlines for annexation after contiguity, or whether any specific property owners had signed agreements. Those implementation details were not provided at the Sept. 2 meeting.