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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule for specified City services for the following departments: 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
City Council approval is requested of the List of Proposed Fee Adjustments for the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009 (FY 09) (Attachment A), which describes the proposed changes to the City's Master Fee and Charges Schedule. A second report, the List of Proposed Fee Subsidies for Parks, Recreation and Marine, which identifies the subsidies for the Parks, Recreation and Marine user fee programs, was to be included in this report; however, due to the need for further analysis of the recently updated fee model, this subsidy report will be brought to the City Council at a later date.
. Proposed Fee Adjustments for the Second Quarter of FY 09
On February 3, 2009, the City Council approved an amended Master Fee and Charges Schedule for specified City services based on department's requests for First Quarter FY 09 Fee Adjustments. 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 encourage 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. To provide for a more effective cost recovery, per the City Council's Financial Policy on User Fees...
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