Lynn Excell serves on the Hurricane City Council with a term expiring in December 2029. His listed responsibilities include streets, storm drainage, the Youth City Council, planning, code enforcement and mosquito abatement. The city's February 2026 preliminary official statement says he served 29 years as Hurricane's police chief before his 2025 election.
Hurricane raised its monthly storm drain fee from $4 to $11 in June. In September it adopted an ordinance replacing an earlier one with a tiered system that phases in charges over four years for nonresidential properties billed more than $100 a month, with Year 2 starting in July 2028.
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On Oct. 1, Hurricane's Municipal Building Authority authorized up to $27 million in lease revenue bonds for a new police station and city hall, raising the maximum interest rate to 6.5% from the 6% in the draft. A public hearing is set for Nov. 5; the final amount has not been set.