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,b..L.i-'-.C k H<L~& 0-1-'-'\) . ~ I :J-l i "I D-t; Memo To: ~: ~::cil JIMR lJu;to December 16, 2005 From: Date: Re: Fee Resolution INTRODUCTION 1. On November 28, 2005, the City Council unanimously approved Resolution 10353 setting City fees for 2006. 2. Since that time, Staff has studied further the question of fees charged developers for consultant expenses in light of a court decision favorable to the City of Andover. Based on that review, we recommend amending Resolution 10353 to broaden the scope of the City's fee authority to help the City pay for development or redevelopment con- sultants. 3. Specifically, Staff recommends the Council consider and approve the attached Resolution at your December 19 Council meeting so the City's revised fee schedule is in effect for 2006. 4. The attached Resolution affects the revenue side of the 2006 City budget but does not affect any of the 2006 Budget Resolutions in your council packet (because they deal with the expenditure side of the budget). PURPOSES 4. The attached Resolution has two purposes. a. One, proposed Resolution broadens the City's authority to require developers to deposit money in escrow. The current fee Resolution authorizes staff to charge de- velopers for consultants the City retains to evaluate commercial, industrial, multi- family and traffic proposals. The proposed fee Resolution would expand the occasions when a developer would have to pay the City's consultant costs to include all of the foregoing situations plus all utility, building permit, economic development or redevel- opment projects or proposals. b. Two, the proposed Resolution increases the amount a developer must pay from 75% of the anticipated consultant cost to 100%, and it clarifies that this payment may be in the form of an escrow. 1