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City Council meeting of July 18,1988 Page 2 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM ASSESSMENT POLICY The city engineer, city attorney, mayor, and city administrator have met to discuss and develop a tentative assessment policy to handle the assessments on collector streets which are part of our capital improvements program. The previous policy of the city has been to assess 140% of the cost to benefiting property owners. In this particular case, the proposal is to assess 21% of the project cost to the benefiting property owners, and the assessment policy deals with the unusual situations such as corner lots and other issues we need to address. The assessment policy is essential in determining the total assessable footage which in turn affects the cost per foot which will be charged to each benefiting property owner. Potts made motion, Olson seconded, to adopt the Capital Improvements Program Assessment Policy as presented. All aye. Motion Carried. RESOLUTION SETTING LICENSE AND PERMIT FEES In the spring of 1987, the City Council passed an ordinance allowing for the setting of license and permit fees by resolution as opposed to the previous arrangement of establishing them by ordinance. In addition to the ordinance change, the Council also consolidated all of its license and permit fees into one resolution for simplification purposes. Having implemented these fees for the last 18 months, the city staff has noted several areas that need changing, and added a number of fees that were not included in the previous resolution yet were a part of city ordinances. This resolution is basically a housekeeping measure with a number of adjustment to fees. Potts made motion, Peltier seconded, to adopt RESOLUTION 88-30, RESOLUTION APPROVING LICENSE, PERMIT, AND APPLICATION FEES. All aye. Motion Carried. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING PLAN REVIEW FEES In the summer of 1987, the City Council passed a resolution updating the city's building permit fees to be consistent with the building code enforced by the city. One of the primary purposes of updating the permit fees was an attempt to make the city's code enforcement office self supporting and not dependent on any tax levy. The city proceeded with phase one of this effort to make the code enforcement self supporting. Phase two of this proposal is to establish a plan review fee which is an additional charge when permits are taken out for large projects requiring detailed construction plans that need review by the building inspector. Most cities charge a plan review fee; however, the City of Hugo does not charge said fee because of the limited service provided in the past. With the full-time building inspector currently on board, much of his time is spent on reviewing building plans submitted. City staff is now recommending that the City Council consider establishment of a fee for