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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and adopt the resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule for specified City services for the City Clerk, City Prosecutor, Community Development, Development Services, Financial Management, Gas and Oil, Fire, Health and Human Services, Library Services, Long Beach Airport, Parks, Recreation and Marine, Police, and Public Works Departments. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
As part of this action, the City Council is requested to consider two separate, but integrated reports about the City's cost recovery efforts for user fee services. The first report, the List of Proposed Fee Adjustments for the First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 (FY 09) (Attachment A) describes the proposed changes to the City's Master Fee and Charges Schedule. The second report, the List of Proposed General Fund Fee Subsidies (Attachment B), identifies the remaining subsidies for the General Fund after the requested First Quarter adjustments.
• Proposed Fee Adjustments for the First Quarter of FY 09
On September 9,2008, as part of the budget adoption process for FY 09, the City Council approved an amended Master Fee and Charges Schedule for specified City services. The basis for this schedule of fees and charges is the Fee Study, which was originally recommended by the Budget Oversight Committee and commissioned by the City Council on June 3, 2004 to complete a cost accounting of the most significant City services and their related user fees, and which is updated annually to ensure full cost recovery for the City's services.
One of the findings of the Fee Study was that the City's process to offset its costs to provide fee-based services did not provide for an inflationary adjustment or other cost growth factors. Thus, some fees remained unchanged for decades resulting in a significant unintended subsidy, which was only addressed when a fee came back before the City Council. To provide for a mor...
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