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of Mounds View Staff R <br />Item No: 3 <br />Meeting Date: November 6, 2017 <br />Type of Business: Workshop <br />Administrator Review <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From: Nyle Zikmund, Interim City Administrator <br />Item Title/Subject: Staff Report — Discussion of Fee Schedule <br />Introduction: <br />Administration coordinated review and updating of the City fee schedule. This is done on <br />an annual basis. Adoption of the schedule is slated for the November 27, 2017 meeting <br />Discussion: <br />Revisions to the Fee Schedule are highlighted in red (deletions) and blue (additions). <br />Specific to the Community Development/Building and Codes area, we are recommending <br />we migrate from our home crafted fees to state statute. This entails deleting much of the <br />Mounds View specific and inserting an Appendix that is the statutory citation. Furthermore, <br />we state that appendix is adopted as "amended from time to time" thus providing an <br />automatic update if the statute is updated. <br />Our fees were based on set rates whereby the state, which the vast majority of metro cities <br />use, based on valuation which is a better reflection of the workload. Based on a survey <br />done by the Permit Technician, we were slightly below our neighboring communities and <br />this change will align us with them. <br />Specific to rental rates at our parks and the YMCA, we are recommending rate adjustments <br />based on the YMCA Advisory Committee and Park Board recommendations for room <br />rentals and park building usage. The YMCA room rates at the Community Center go down <br />for off peak times to entice business usage during those times. Athletic Field and Park <br />Building rates increase to cover operational and maintenance costs. <br />Specific to the utility rate increases, Finance Director Beer monitors our current and future <br />needs along with surveying similar and surrounding communities and is recommending a <br />rate increase to fund current but more accurately, future investments that will be required to <br />maintain a safe and reliable municipal utilities. <br />Nyle Zikmund <br />