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Home My WebLink AboutCC AG PKT 2002-06-24 #YAGENDA REPORT June 24, 2002 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council THRU: John B. Bahorski, City Manager 1Z FROM: Pamela Arends -King, Director of Administrative Services/Treasurer SUBJECT: COMPREHENSIVE FEE SCHEDULE 2002/2003 SUMMARY OF REOUEST: Establish the rates and amounts of fees and charges for certain goods, services and facilities provided by the City of Seal Beach and supersede inconsistent provisions of previously approved resolutions. Under State of California guidelines, fees and charges for municipal goods and services are to be set at a rate equivalent or below costs incurred in providing for that service. Fees me to be based on an analysis of costs and may not be arbitrarily set. A fee or charge may, as a matter of public policy, be set at a rate below costs, when a public benefit or good exists in having the General Fund subsidy for specific service to an individual(s). For the 2002/2003 fiscal year, staff reviewed fees and charges and recommends fees and charges authorized and established in prior year Comprehensive Fee Schedule remain the same except for the following fee increases: • Expedited Plan Check Fee was added. It is 50% of standard Plan Check Fee. • Deputy Inspector Contractor business license fee of $15.00 was added. • Section 3. Planning Fees — Filing Fees: Variance deposit increased to $750.00 from $500.00; Zone Change deposit increased to $2,000.00 from $1,000.00; General Plan Amendment deposit increased to $2,000.00 from $1,000.00; Planned Unit Development deposit increased to $2,000.00 from $1,000.00; Minor Site Review deposit increased to $150.00 from $100.00; Major Site Plan Review deposit increased to $750.00 from $500.00; Specific Plan deposit increased to $10,000.00 from $1,000.00; Appeal — Public Hearing deposit increased to $750.00 from $500.00; and Sober Living hrvestigation Fee actual costs with a $500.00 deposit was added. The increases in the deposit amounts reflect the actual costs for each filing fee. Agenda Item June 24, 2002 Comprehensive Fee Schedule FY 2002103 • Section 3. Planning Fees — Environmental Fees Negative Declaration deposit increased to $1,500.00 from $500.00. The increase in deposit amount reflects what the actual costs of the Negative Declaration are. • Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Fees and Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Application Fees paid by developers increased 3 %. The 3% increase is the "Engineering News Record Construction Cost 20 City Average" from May 2000 to May 2001. See attachment A. • Contractor Business License fee increased 2.7% based on the Consumer Price Index as of April 2002 for the Los Angeles Urban Area. The license fee increased from $163 to $167. • Public Works Section 5 — Plan check and Review Type A Grading and Drainage Plan Check minimum deposit increased to $575.00 from $500.00. The increase in deposit amount reflects what the actual cost is. • Public Works Section 5 — Water Utility Services — Water Service Connection Charge — "Buy In" was added. The connection fee is for new services that have never been connected or paid into the system. The fee is calculated using the value of the existing system not subject to replacement through the existing CIP and the total annual water use by system customers in billing units. Therefore, the connection fee per unit of water use is determined. The connection fee per service size is then calculated m the product of this unit by 12 months, and the average water use per meter size resulting in the following rates. Upgrades to larger services will pay the difference. The water service connection charge is based on meter size. Residential charges for a 5/8" and 3/4" meter is $2,416; 1" meter is $2,983; 1.5" meter is $6,202; 2" meter is $8,758; 3" meter is $70,008; 4" meter is $99,100 and 6" meter is $161,557. Commercial, Industrial and Governmental charges are 5/8" and 3 %" meter is $2,798; 1" meter is $5,361; 1.5" meter is $6,982; 2" meter is $28,753; 3" meter is $75,393; 4" meter is $99,100 and 6" meter is $161,557. Connection charges for service sizes greater than 6" will be determined by the City Engineer as approved by Council at the time of development or request. • The cost of overhead for services provided by the City and no method for the calculation is specified through this Resolution, other City Council resolutions, the Code of the City of Seal Beach, or other state or federal ruling increased from 18.7% to 21.4 %. This increase is based on the 2.7% consumer price index as of April 2002 for the Los Angeles Urban Area FISCAL IMPACT: The recommended Comprehensive Fee Schedule will balance cost recovery of services rendered and, therefore, reduce General Fund tax and revenue subsidies. June 24, 2002 Comprehensive Fee Schedule FY 2002/03 RECOMMENDATION: City Council adopt the Comprehensive Fee Schedule establishing the rates and amount of fees and charges for good, services and facilities provided by the City of Seal Beach. Pamela Arends -King, Adimstrative Services/Treasurer June 24, 2002 Comprehensive Fee Schedule FY 2002/03 Attachment A To the Comprehensive Fee Schedule 2002 /2003 Agenda Report Schedule of increases for Transportation Facilitates and Programs Development Fees and Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Application Fees (new fee amounts are highlighted): Land Use Tvce Shopping Center (up to 175,000 sq.ft.) Shopping Center (over 175,000 -sq. ft.) General Office Building Quality Restaurant Hotel Single - Family Detached Housing Multi- Family Attached Housing (Apartment) Multi - Family Attached Housing (Condominium) City Park Other Land Use Types Fee/Unit $9.44 $9.44 per sq.ft. of gross Leasable area $3.00 $2.92 per sq. ft. of gross Leasable area $3.27 $3.18 per sq. ft. of gross Leasable area $7.43 $7.24 per sq. ft. of gross Floor area $653.70 $636.64 per room or suite $1,153.89 $1,123.78 per dwelling Unit $757.22 $737.46 per dwelling unit $631.60 $615.12 per dwelling unit $3,778.06 $3,679.45 per acre $1,229.57 $1,197.48 per peak Hour trip generated Adjustment of the Amount of the Transportation Facilities and Programs Development Application Fee: Shopping Center (up to 175,000 sq. ft.) Shopping Center (over 175,000 -sq. ft.) General Office Building Quality Restaurant Hotel Single - Family Detached Housing $1.44 $1.40 per sq. ft. of gross Leasable area $0.43 $0.42 per sq. ft. of gross Leasable area $0.47 $0.46 per sq. ft. of gross Floor area $1.10 $1.07 per sq. fot of $96.55 $94.03 per room or suite $172.13 $167.64 per dwelling unit June 24, 2002 Comprehensive Fee Schedule FY 2002/03 Multi- Family Attached Housing (Apartment) Multi- Family Attached Housing (Condominium) City Park Other Land Use Types $112.84 $109.89 per dwelling unit $94.23 $91.77 per dwelling unit $564.14 $549.42 per acre $170.49 $166.53 per PM peak Hour trip generated Sea] Beach Budeet Considerations 1. The City Of Seal Beach cannot afford to have a 40- person Police Department managed by a Chief of Police and two Captains. Any organization like this should easily be managed by only one person. The resulting savings are obvious and the service to the citizens of Seal Beach would not be compromised. 2. We understand that Captain Orville King recently accepted the job a Chief of the San Diego State University Police Department. The City Of Seal Beach should not re-fill this position. The monetary savings are obvious. 3. The present Chief of Police has been seeking work elsewhere for quite some time now. If and when, he leaves the employment of the City Of Seal Beach, his position should be filled by the remaining, well qualified, Captain John Schaefer. Then, there should then be no "re- filling" of any Captain's position. The financial savings are obvious. 4. We read in the Seal Beach Sun about the City Manager's statements about the very poor condition of the city's vehicles. Well if this is the case, why did the Chief of Police recently be allowed to purchase at the city's expense a "gold plated" Ford Expedition SUV that ended up costing about $65,000. ?. His `hand - me -down" almost new Ford Explorer city vehicle was passed on to one of the Captains while the other Captain is now driving a now 4 -door Mercury city vehicle. Something is not right here when one considers the budget crisis that the City Of Seal Beach is currently facing. 5. Why does the Chief Of Police have a personal secretary?. Today, in most all businesses the top managers and everyone else do not have secretaries. Almost all managers today do their own word processing, scheduling of appointments and etc.. The age of the computer has made personal secretaries almost obsolete in the business world and this should carry over to the Police Department also. The savings by deleting a personal secretary are obvious. These are a few matters that the City Of Seal Beach City Council should consider prior to accepting any budget from the current City Manager. Finally, I don't believe that many citizens of Seal Beach would want to contract with the Orange County Sheriff s departs for its police services. I understand that the savings would result in amount of about $1,000,000. per year. From what has been mentioned above, it is easy to see where some very good savings cetdd be made in Seal Beach's Police operations without compromising services to any degree. As in any operation there would be objections within the Police department to therr types of changes, but things seem to always "work out" in die long run when tlthip "slim down ".