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Ac ion eques e Consent Public Hearing Discussion Action Resolution Work Session _X LAUDERDALE COUNCIL ACTION FORM Meeting Date January 28, 2014 ITEM NUMBER Permit Fees STAFF INITIAL APPROVED BY ADMINISTRATOR Following is a letter from Barbara eRosier. any of you know that she suffered brain damage after falling off her roof a number of years ago, shortly after she purchased her home. Over the past few years, staff have been in contact with Barbara with regard to her garage. It was in a state of disrepair, especially after a tree hit the comer of it. We had been trying to help her find resources to take care of it. Kevin worked with her through the past summer to get Peace Lutheran Church involved. Based on our last interactions, we thought the gar- age was going to be town down by Church members. 4-11 This fall, Dave noticed that improvements were being made to the garage.. We sent Barbara a letter explaining that a permit needed to be pulled. To make a long story short, we had a number of interactions with the Roseville resident that did the work. We explained to him that virtually all of the work he performed was governed by the building code and that was why a permit was required. He has been unhappy about this. However, we finally got him to let Dave inspect the work he did. The work he did didn't bring the garage up to code but did shore up the structure. Dave has the discretion as the building official to allow this for such old structures that were built long before the building code existed. Based on conversations with Barbara, we thought she was going to stop by City all to fin- ish the permit process until we received this letter this week. As it is addressed to the Coun- CiL I am bringing it to your attention. She is asking for the Council to waive the permit requirement and the fee. It isn't within the Council's discretion to waive the state building code requirements. I will explain that to her again. As the Council sets the fee schedule, you could waive the fee. I strongly encourage the Council not to do that. Many, many people who pull permits are on a fixed income. Waiving the fee could open the door to many more requests. As the permit fees are used to pay a significant portion of Dave's salary, waiving fees would require us to find the money elsewhere (i.e. raise permit fees or levy more tax dollars). I will reply back to Barbara after getting the Council's perspective.