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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS SUMMARY OF 2004 ACTIVITY AND PROJECTED 2005 NEEDS There are a number of professional service line items in the Community Development budget. They are meant to be used for day-today smaller development consultant services. The fees for these items are normally paid for form the permits fees and license revenue. Examples are electrical inspections, structural engineering review, court cases and legal fees, software programming, economic development and demographic data base updates and interpretations, traffic analysis for projects, some professional writing, environmental review of grants and remedial action plans, architectural proj ect review, and market study work. These consultants help us meet the City and State Codes technical inspection requirements, meet the 60 day land use project review period, complete directives fiom Council and Manager, and update technical work which the small staff does not have the capacity or the technical expertise to complete. The 2005 budgeted amount of $52,000 (5% of the total Community Development Budget) and Electrical Inspection services of $65,000 are expended when needed for projects. They are paid out of permit fee revenue or from the direct reimbursement fiom a properry owner, not fiom general fund dollars. In 2004, the total professional services expenditure for community development has been estimated at $13,167.16 (1.5%) ofthe departmentbudget. This was $38,832.84 underbudget. In addition, some of those professional service costs were reimbursed. Special projects beyond the every day operations such as Twin Lakes require Council approvals to start and additional professional services. The reliance on additional professional services for such as small staff is critical to properly evaluate larger more complex development issues such as Tax Increment Financing. These more technical services include ta�c increment financing, financial modeling, traffic studies and development master planning. For example, the Community DevelopmentDepartment implements projects such as the Council initiated Stakeholder Panel Study ($80,000) through a consultant contract approved by the Council in January 2004. Some special consulting services can be charged back to the developer while others are charges to a TIF administration fund to be paid back in the future as the development is built. The state statutes allow for an administration charge of up to 10% of the increment, to be used to cover city planning and administration costs. The Council's request for additional financial and traffic study information on these larger proj ects lead to more consultant charges fiom the redevelopmentattorney and CPA (Jim Casserly) as well as traffic modeling by SRF (Steve Wilson). The Department has not (now or ever) had the budget to support these studies on its own. The following is a summation of the consultants used by the Community Development Department and the charges, if any, paid to them in 2004. ��m �