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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. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested for the List of Proposed Fee Adjustments for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 11) (Attachment A), which describes the proposed changes to the City’s Master Fee and Charges Schedule. On December 7, 2010, the City Council approved an amended Master Fee and Charges Schedule for specified City services that included proposed fee adjustments to implement the State Parking Citation Surcharge and Enterprise Zone Application Fee increase.
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 and Charges, a mechanism to allow broad-based changes to the City’s fees became necessary. Hence, the Master Fee and Charges Schedule, along with quarterly fee updates, were initiated. City staff will continue to bring proposed fee adjustments on an ongoing basis to keep fees up-to-date.
Please see Attachment A for a List of Proposed Fee Adjustments for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2011. Proposed changes to the Master Fee and Charges Schedule involve several factors as follows:
City Council Financial Policy on User Fees and Charges - The Financial Policy states that departments are expected to recover 100 percent of their actual costs for u...
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