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Resolution to Approve Fiscal Year 2014 Fee Adjustments for Public Services Area - Project Management, Systems Planning, Field Operations and Customer Service
Memorandum
Mayor and Council, attached for your consideration and approval is the resolution approving fee adjustments for Public Services Area-Service Units for the 2014 fiscal year. The anticipated increase in revenue resulting from the fee adjustments is crucial to balancing expenditures and revenues in the proposed fiscal year 2014 budget.
Each year in conjunction with the preparation of the budget, Service Area/Service Units are requested to review license and fee revenues to determine if the cost of the services rendered are covered by the charges. When determining these costs, Service Units take into account increases or decreases in expenses such as: labor, material and supplies, equipment, and overhead cost. The increases are generally in the range of 1% to 5% and are for purposes of full cost recovery. In some cases where fees are proposed to be higher than the nominal, explanations are provided to give a rational for the increase. A majority of those type of increases are a result of a recent cost of service study. Decreases are in the range of 5-100% and vary more widely due to efficiency improvements, equipment pricing fluctuations and as a result of the cost of service study.
The Public Services Area is recommending approval of increases for activities in the Service Units in order to recover fully burdened costs for ancillary services provided to the customers. These fully burdened costs were based upon estimated time spent providing the service, vehicle expenses, IT costs, materials & supplies, and the municipal service charge.
The following Service Units have requested fee adjustments:
· Project Management
o Right-of-Way
o Private Development
· Field Operations
o Solid Waste
o Traffic sign & signals
· Customer Service Center Unit
o Meter operations and maintenance
· ...
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