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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending and restating in its entirety Resolution No. RES-06-0107 establishing a partial schedule of fees and charges for specified City services for the Departments of Community Development, Financial Management, Fire, Health and Human Services, Parks, Recreation and Marine, Planning and Building, Police, and Public Works. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On September 12, 2006, as part of the adoption of the Fiscal Year 07 Budget, the City Council approved a partial schedule of fees and charges for specified City services for the Departments of Community Development, Financial Management, Fire, Health and Human Services, Parks, Recreation and Marine, Planning and Building, Police, and Public Works. In general, the basis for this partial schedule of fees and charges was the Fee Study, which was originally recommended by the Budget Oversight Committee and commissioned by the City Council on June 3, 2004, when a contract was entered into with a consultant to complete a cost accounting of the most significant City's user fee services.
One of the outcomes of the Fee Study was an understanding that the City's process to offset its costs to provide fee-based services did not provide for increasing costs due to inflation or other cost factors. Thus, some fees remained unchanged for decades resulting in a significant subsidy, which was only addressed when a fee came back before the City Council. In order to provide a methodology to keep pace with the demands of a vital and progressive City that strives to maintain the maximum possible level of service, a mechanism to allow changes to the City's fee structure is necessary. City staff will bring proposed fee adjustments of a material nature on an ongoing basis in order to keep fees up to date. Please see Attachment A for a Summary of Key Proposed Fee Adjustments for the Mid-Year of Fiscal Year 2007 (FY 07)....
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