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File #: [20-0569]    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Status: Passed
File created: 8/23/2020 In control: Town Council
On agenda: 9/9/2020 Final action: 9/9/2020
Title: Adopt the Corrected FY 2020-21 Fee Schedule.
Attachments: 1. Corrected FY 2020-21 Fee Schedule, 2. A RESOLUTION TO CORRECT THE FY 2020-21 ADOPTED FEE SCHEDULE (2020-09-09/R-3)


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Adopt the Corrected FY 2020-21 Fee Schedule.
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Staff:
Department:
Amy Oland, Director
Business Management Department
Matt Brinkley, Assistant Director

Chelsea Laws, Director
Building & Development Services

Overview: As staff updated the Town website with the adopted FY 2020-21 fee schedule, it came to our attention that there were some differences between what was adopted and what was posted on the Town website in the Building & Development Services fees and fee schedule language.


Recommendation:
That the Council adopt the corrected FY 2020-21 fee schedule with the revised Building & Development Services section and ratify the Building & Development Services fees that have been collected since July 1, 2020.

Key Issues:
During the budget process, departments can request new fees, fee changes, and fee schedule language adjustments. The Town Manager reviews these requests, and then brings them before Council during budget discussions. Due to COVID-19, there were no fee schedule additions recommended for FY 2021.

Departments provide Business Management (BMD) with their finalized fee schedule to include with the budget adoption materials. Between the request for fee schedule changes and the final submission of departmental fee schedules, some information was mistakenly not included accurately in the Building & Development Services section. Staff did not find this error during budget review. The Building and Development Services fee schedule, therefore, had omissions when Council adopted the FY 2020-21 fee schedule.

The missing information mainly consisted of previously approved fees and language adjustments. The errors are omissions that need to be added back to have the correct fee structure for FY 2020-21; they are not new or expanded fees.

Below is a summary of the amendments and of the background for each fee.
1) Administrative Review Fee Table - In FY2018, the adopted fee schedule included a table that was relocated from the botto...

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