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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 11/4/2024 Item No.: 7.b. Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Review the proposed 2025 Fee and Administrative Penalty Schedules 1 2 Background 3 Each year the City Council is asked to adopt a Fee Schedule which establishes the fees and charges for 4 service for the City’s regulatory functions. The presence of a fee schedule allows regulatory-type fees to 5 be easily identified in one document, as opposed to being scattered throughout City Code. In addition, a 6 fee schedule adopted on an annual basis provides the Council the opportunity to review fees for 7 services in a comprehensive manner. 8 9 Over the past several months, Staff has reviewed the direct and indirect costs of these regulatory 10 functions to determine whether fee adjustments are necessary or if new fees should be established. 11 Additionally, as staff is currently in the middle of a recodification process, there was an opportunity to 12 review the entire city code to ensure all fees were included in the fee schedule and that penalties within 13 the city code were also captured in a separate document. With this comprehensive review of the city 14 code, Council will see a new format for the fee schedule along with additional fees listed. Unless noted, 15 these are not new fees, but rather fees that were being collected but may not have been listed on the fee 16 schedule. 17 18 All the proposed changes are highlighted on the attached Fee Schedule (Attachment 1), and reflect the 19 need to recover increased regulatory costs, staff time related to special requests, or development- 20 related impacts on city services. This fee schedule includes several sections: General Business 21 Licenses and Permits, Permit and Plan/Project review fees, Community Development Miscellaneous 22 fees, and Electrical Permit fees. There is also a new section that lists all the penalties that are defined 23 throughout city code. This Administrative Penalty schedule does not have any new penalties proposed, 24 but rather consolidates all penalties into one document as part of the fee schedule. 25 26 Attachment 1 shows the 2024 amounts and the proposed 2025 amounts. At this time council is being 27 asked to review the document. Staff will bring back an ordinance at the December 2 meeting to formally 28 adopt the schedules. 29 30 Below is a summary of changes: 31 32 Administrative Penalties 33 There are no new penalties proposed. 34 Lines 1-2 were previously in city code but not captured in the previous schedule. 35 Line 3: There is an increase from $100 to $105 proposed for a City Code Violation (General) for 36 increased staff costs. 37 Lines 5-59: These penalties were listed in Chapter 3 related to alcohol but were not fully 38 incorporated into the previous schedule. 39 Lines 72-74: These penalties were listed in Chapter 8 but were not fully incorporated into the 40 previous schedule. There is also some clarifying language added to the description. Page 1 of 4 Qbhf!31!pg!297