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Resolution to Approve Fiscal Year 2012 Fee Adjustments for Public Services Area Project Management, Customer Service, Systems Planning, Waste Water Treatment and Field Operations
Memorandum
Mayor and Council, attached for your consideration and approval is the resolution approving fee adjustments for Public Services Area-Service Units for the 2012 fiscal year. The anticipated increase in revenue resulting from the fee adjustments is crucial to balancing expenditures and revenues in the proposed fiscal year 2012 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. These increases are generally in the range of 3% to 5%. In some cases where fee increases are proposed to be more than the foregoing amounts, explanations are provided to give a rationale for the increase. Decreases are in the range of 3% to 64% and vary more widely due to efficiency improvements. Based on the fee analysis, projected revenues have been budgeted.
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 and supplies and the municipal service charge.
In prior years, the Project Management Services Unit has raised its Private Development fees incrementally to recover its annual fully burdened costs for the services provided. In order to avoid a large fee increase from one fiscal year to the next, the fees have been adjusted annually. With last year’s adjustments, we were at parity for th...
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