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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 11/10/2025 Item No.: 7.h. Department ApprovalCity Manager Approval Item Description:Review the proposed 2026 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 Staff has reviewed the direct and indirect costs of these regulatory functions to determine whether fee 10 adjustments are necessary or if new fees should be established. All the proposed changes are 11 highlighted on the attached Fee Schedule (Attachment 1), and reflect the need to recover increased 12 regulatory costs, staff time related to special requests, or development-related impacts on city services. 13 This fee schedule includes several sections: General Business Licenses and Permits, Permit and 14 Plan/Project review fees, Community Development Miscellaneous fees, and Electrical Permit fees. 15 There is also a section that lists all the penalties that are defined throughout city code. 16 17 Attachment 1 shows the 2025 amounts and the proposed 2026 amounts. At this time council is being 18 asked to review the document. Staff will bring back an ordinance at the December 1 meeting to formally 19 adopt the schedules. 20 21 Below is a summary of changes: 22 23 Administrative Penalties 24 General Violation, Administrative fines and other fees have been increased by 3% to cover the 25 cost of staff time. 26 Overdue taxes owed has increased from 8% interest charged to 10% of unpaid amount + 27 interest. 28 Unpaid user fees for False alarms now include a 10% late fee as part of the assessment. In 29 addition, the 4th and 5th False alarm penalties have increased to cover the costs. 30 Fire code violation penalties have increased from $400 to $500 31 32 General Business Licenses & Permit Fees 33 A General background fee was added for those sections of the code that require a background 34 check but are not specifically called out in the fee schedule. Other background fees have 35 increased 3% to cover staff time with the exception of Massage therapists and establishments. 36 Due to the increased work load related to these background checks, the background fee has 37 been increased to reflect the increase in staff time needed to review and process the 38 background checks. Additionally, splitting out the background fee allows more transparency for Page 1 of 3 Qbhf!86!pg!74: