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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public 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 and non-departmental Citywide Fees and Charges. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested of the List of Proposed Fee Adjustments for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2010 (FY 10) (Attachment A), which describes the proposed changes to the City's Master Fee and Charges Schedule.
On September 15, 2009, 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. Subsequently, on October 13, 2009, the City Council approved a resolution to make changes to certain fees contained within the amended Master Fee and Charges Schedule. The attached resolution includes October 13th changes, as well as the changes submitted for approval today.
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 more effective cost recovery, per the City Council's Financial Policy on User Fees and Charges, a mechanism to allow broad based changes to the City's fees became necessary. Hence, the Master Fee a...
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