Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule.  (Citywide)
Motion carries. Thank you. Hearing to. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution amending the master fee and charges schedule citywide. There's a motion in a second. Mr. West. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Grace Yoon, Budget Manager, Financial Management will conduct a presentation today. Good evening, Mayor, and members of the City Council. So the City Council's approval is being requested for mid-year changes to the master fee, fee and charges schedule for departments. I propose a total of 12 fee changes to the schedule. This includes the addition of eight new fees. The master fee in charge schedule is updated at least twice a year to allow departments to meet City Council stated policy on user fees, which. Calls for a full cost recovery whenever appropriate. City Council last. Approved an amended the master fee. And charges schedule on September 5th. 2018 as a part of the Fy19 budget process. Some examples of midyear fee changes in this report include a lower new fee for a site plan review of facade remodels to encourage additional applications for facade remodels and to distinguish the level of effort to review these remodels compared to new building constructions. A new annual registration fee to ensure charitable food operators are complying with health and safety code. A new fee for the operation of onsite catering companies or mobile. Food operators at at host. Facilities and new fees for the Catalina parking lot, which the city has assumed operations in line with the city's policy on cost recovery. The proposed fee changes are set at full cost recovery. The full list of fee changes and deletions are available in attachment A to the Council letter. This concludes my staff report and department representatives are also here to answer any specific questions you may have on the proposed fee changes. Thank you. There's a motion. There's a motion. Okay. There's a motion and a second Councilman Bong go. So I just wanted to add a potential. Option to limit first. Is there any public comment on this hearing? Okay. See none. Councilman Mango. So one of the things that we've talked about at length is accepting credit cards at Eldorado Park. This last Sunday was, again, a large scale event at Eldorado Park, which is Easter, where people want to enjoy it and we still aren't able to accept credit cards. So I'd like to add one additional fee item to the schedule in case there's some kind of cost recovery necessary to implement this, that it would be the current fee plus the cost recovery amount. So if our current rate to get into the park is $7 and it cost us a dollar 50 transaction fee, then I'd like there to be an added line item for credit card processing or whatever it needs to be to be $9 or $8. But I just want to give a general update and you can bring that back in a two from four. And I just want to add, Mr. West, I've been talking about this for four years. Why can't we get a credit card reader at Eldorado Park? I take credit cards. I don't understand why we can't do that as part of this. So I know it's not part of the fee schedule, but she just brought it up and it just, you know, it's it's getting there. So, Councilman Bango, is that is that part of the fee schedule? What what Councilman Mangum mentioned? We cannot add a fee tonight. We have to do a study. And you have to come back to add a fee to the fee schedule tonight. So if it's direction to. We can't modify a fee. You cannot increase the fee without your study. You can recommend or tell them to do that. You could eliminate a fee tonight. You could. Could we lower a fee tonight? You can't raise a fee and. They're eliminating fees. That's my favorite thing to do. So I'm going to just direct that. It comes back with the October fee schedule adjustment. I know that there's an independent park fee schedule study, blah, blah, blah. This has been going on for way too long. We have the ability to do this through labs. We have the ability to do it through some technology that's available in public works. I'd like to have it on board something, even if we use the current fees this summer because backing up the 605 Freeway to the Alamo is just not acceptable. That's every weekend, by the way, Councilman Austin. I second the motion and I like the idea of lowering fees. But this this fee schedule report is pretty voluminous and it would take some some serious time to do that. But the one one question I did have for for staff in terms of fees, can you speak to the hardships that that that, you know, our residents may face and how they're dealt with in terms of fee collections? Councilor, let me take the first shot at that, then I'll get back to Grace. We've already implemented and we'll probably we probably owe you a two from for on that, especially in the homeless arena. Whenever we whether we tote a car, whether we've sited cars, and if paying those fees or getting their car back puts the onus of someone going into homelessness or losing their their vehicle or not making it to a job and losing their job and losing their income. We have a policy between Fleet and the city manager's office to waive those fees, at least for the first time, and get that vehicle right back as soon as we can. In addition to that, we're very in fact, we're going through a situation right now where Broadway opened just recently and we advertised it street sweeper in time again to get tickets. But a whole bunch of people get tickets and are complaining that should we have gotten should we have got a little bit more notice? So those are things that we're certainly looking at, those kinds of things that just pop up. But other than that. Grace, do you have anything? I know. I'd just add that. Yet, depending on the fee, there. Are various. Programs that are set up, such as? Like the ambulance fees, there are waivers, programs that people can apply to, as well as the financing plans and things like that. So those are evaluated and looked at by department on a case by case basis. I think it was a question I had and I appreciate the answer and appreciate that our staff in city is being compassionate and understanding, sensitive to the challenges that are that are our residents face. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Is Dennis done here? I know. I can recite is Karyn public comment? And Larry Goodhue for the comment.