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CONSOLIDATED MASTER FEE SCHEDULE
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DEPARTMENT: FINANCE DEPARTMENT
PRESENTED BY: CAROL MOLINA, FINANCE DIRECTOR
CONTACT INFORMATION: CAROL MOLINA, FINANCE DIRECTOR, (714) 754-5036
RECOMMENDATION:
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Staff recommends the City Council
1. Open a Public Hearing and take testimony, if any.
2. Adopt a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, California, Adopting a Consolidated Schedule of User and Regulatory Fees for Various City Services.
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BACKGROUND:
Fee-related services typically benefit a particular individual, business, or group. Since these services typically provide a specific benefit, communities often seek to recover all, or a portion of, the costs of providing fee-related services from those benefitting from the service provided. This allows unobligated revenues to be more purposefully directed to funding services provided to the community as a whole (e.g., public safety services).
User and regulatory fees are established by the City Council.
Staff desires to implement a practice of annual review and adjustment of fees. Implementing this practice will provide multiple benefits, including:
* Increasing the availability of General Fund revenues to be used for services and activities available to all Costa Mesa residents and businesses, such as public safety services.
* Keeping pace with general cost inflation.
* Avoiding fee spikes that are more likely to occur when municipalities leave fees unchanged for a multi-year period.
* Providing fee payers, City staff, and City policymakers with a pattern of consistency that provides information for forecasting and decision-making purposes.
* Encouraging generational equity among fee payers by avoiding long-term stagnation of fees followed by significant fee increases.
ANALYSIS:
The main purpose of this action is to consolidate the City's multiple existing user and regulatory fees into one schedule. Consolidating the City's current fees into a one mas...
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