HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 047-2015RESOLUTION NO. 47-2015
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BURLINGAME APPROVING THE 2015-16 MASTER FEE
SCHEDULE FOR CITY SERVICES
WHEREAS, the City of Burlingame regularly reviews the fees that the City charges
persons or entities for the use of City facilities, or the provision of City services; and
WHEREAS, in order to ensure that the cost of such services and facilities is borne by the
users of said services and facilities in a fair and equitable manner, the City periodically adjusts the
fees for services and facility use to ensure that the fees charged reflect the actual costs to the City
and the City's taxpayers in providing those services and facilities; and
WHEREAS, in 2007 the City engaged the services of Municipal Financial to conduct a
comprehensive review of the City's schedule of fees to ensure that the fees charged by the City to
the users of City services and facilities do not exceed the actual costs of providing the services or
facilities; and
WHEREAS, annual review of the City fee schedule has resulted in numerous adjustments
to ensure that the City recovers the full cost of providing services and facilities while at the same
time not exceeding the cost of providing those services and facilities; and
WHEREAS, an update of the City's
Cost Allocation Plan
(CAP) and a comprehensive
user -fee study is now
underway, but was not
completed in time to
inform the development of the
City's 2015-16 Master
Fee Schedule; and
WHEREAS, the City
Council has determined to keep
some fees
below the level of full cost
recoveY to make the related
services more readily available
to citizens;
and
WHEREAS, notice of the City's proposed fee schedule and of the May 4, 2015 public
hearing in connection therewith, has been duly provided pursuant to the provisions of State law;
and
WHEREAS, because certain fees to be charged by the Planning and Building Divisions of
the Community Development Department and the development fees to be charged by the Fire
Department and the Engineering Division of the Public Works Department cannot become
effective until sixty (60) days after adoption of this Resolution, pursuant to Government Code
section 66017, the adjusted fees as delineated in the 2015-16 Master Fee Schedule shall become
effective July 3, 2015; and
WHEREAS, despite every
effort to ensure that all City fees for services are contained in
the 2015-16 Master Fee Schedule, there may be some existing fees provided for in the Municipal
Code, administrative procedures or elsewhere that have been omitted from the Master Fee
Schedule, and nothing in this resolution or Council action is intended to repeal those fees nor is
this resolution or Council action intended to affect in any way any taxes or assessments of any
kind.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
1. All of the facts and assertions recited above, in the staff report and supporting
documentation are true and correct, and the Council relies upon same in adopting the Master Fee
Schedule.
2. The
City
Council
approves the 2015-16 Master Fee Schedule, attached and
ncorporated as
if fully
set forth
herein.
3. The 2015-16 Master Fee Schedule shall become effective on July 3, 2015.
Terry Nag I, Mayor
I, Mary Ellen Kearney, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, hereby certify that the
foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the
Burlingame City Council held on the 4th day of May, 2015, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BROWNRIGG, KEIGHRAN, NAGEL, ORTIZ, ROOT
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:NONE'
Mary Ellen Kearney, City Clerk