Electric City council approved contracting for a hearing examiner and hiring a code enforcement officer at its meeting May 9.

Hearing examiner Andrew L. Kottkamp, of Wenatchee, will be paid $150 an hour.

The hearing examiner duties call for him to be knowledgeable in all portions of Electric City’s municipal code and related ordinances, regulations, plans and policies applicable to any matter coming before him for a hearing. The contractor also must be knowledgeable with relevant state statutes and appellate case law.

The hearing examiner would be involved to settle a dispute anyone might have about a decision made by a city administrator on zoning issues.

The new Electric City code enforcer is Wiyaka Steinke, whose duties include the enforcement of city ordinances that generally relate to the conditions of property.

Steinke works with city staff to see that violators of ordinances correct their problems. Steinke has been on the job for the past four weeks.