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Resolution to Approve FY19 Fee Adjustments for Safety Service Area - Fire Department Service Fee Schedule
Memorandum
Attached for your review, consideration, and approval is the resolution approving fee adjustments to the FY 2019 Fire Service Area fee schedule.
As promised to the community business stakeholders, work group meetings were held to review and update the newly structured fire safety inspection fee schedule implemented in FY17 that was based on a more fair and equitable charge by square footage. A diverse group of small, medium and large business owners/management firms participated in four work group meetings. Overall, the FY17's equitable fee schedule approach has been a great success with only having two areas of concern that needed to be reviewed.
With the community's input, the following fee schedule changes are being proposed:
Implement a Self-Inspection Pilot Program for Hotels, Transient Boarding and Storage Occupancies
A pilot self-inspection program will be offered to businesses with leased or rented individual rooms including hotels, transient boarding; and storage facilities (R1, S1 and S2 building classes), in order to accommodate their accessibility issues, but also to ensure that all rooms are inspected. This pilot self-inspection program will also give a break in the overall increased square footage inspection fee to these businesses, which was one of the concerns of the FY17 fee schedule. All of the building's common areas along with a minimum of five percent (5%) of the leased or rented individual rooms will be inspected and charged accordingly. It will be the discretion of the fire inspector to increase the number of additional rooms above the minimum five percent based on conditions and/or violations discovered at the time of the inspection.
Large Building Cost Break
Participating business stakeholders supported the change to the flat square footage fee of .06 cents to .045 cents for buildings with more than 50,000 squ...
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