The mayors are named in the city records
Victor's official mayor page identifies Will Frohlich as mayor and says his term expires in 2027. Driggs' official city-council page identifies August Christensen as mayor and says her current term runs from January 2026 to January 2030.
The official record cited here centers on public money and wastewater governance under those offices: rates, penalties, audits, litigation, and plant-finance decisions.
Victor raised sewer rates on Oct. 1, 2024
Victor's own rate notice says its sewer rate jumped from $61.04 to $98.50 per month effective October 1, 2024. The city tied that increase to treatment-cost pressure from Driggs' regulatory problems and plant-upgrade needs. Victor's later wastewater finance explainer says the system's FY2026 sewer-fund budget is about $2.19 million and that a Victor-owned plant could push modeled monthly rates into roughly the $126 to $139 range depending on project cost.
Driggs lists a current in-city sewer base amount of $70.36 under rates effective Oct. 1, 2025. Driggs also says its plant expansion was estimated at $31.6 million at the 30 percent design stage.
The federal enforcement record sits underneath the city fight
EPA said in January 2025 that Driggs agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty and undertake a major wastewater upgrade over chronic Clean Water Act violations. The federal consent decree says the government's complaint alleged 3,237 permit exceedances plus sampling, recordkeeping, and chain-of-custody problems. Driggs did not admit liability in that decree, but it did agree to the compliance regime.
The federal pollution-enforcement record sits underneath the local billing and rate fight.
Victor's lawsuit turned the governance failure into an audit-and-billing fight
Victor's March 5, 2026 complaint against Driggs says the inter-city wastewater agreement required annual independent audits and compliant treatment, but alleges the neutral audit did not happen until 2024 and that Victor had been overpaying. Victor also alleges Driggs failed to cooperate fully with the audit and mishandled debt-service and operating-cost pass-throughs.
Victor's wastewater page says the city approved a 40-acre future treatment site in 2025 and is pushing a separate plant after losing trust in the old arrangement's cost, compliance, and ratepayer controls.
The public is already underwriting both versions of the future
Victor's modeling says monthly sewer costs could rise further if the city builds its own plant, while Driggs is already carrying a federally enforced upgrade path and its own higher rate structure.
The household bill is where the governance failure lands: separation, litigation, compliance, and capital expansion are all moving through local utility math.
