Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule.  (Citywide)
Okay. We're going to go into we have a hearing, so let's go and do our hearing first and then we'll go right into public comment. So, Madam Court. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt resolution amending the master fee and charges schedule citywide wide. Mr. Modica. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council. The staff report we're given by Lia Eriksson, our assistant director of Finance. Good evening, Mayor, and members. Of city council. City Council's approval. Is being requested for the second quarter changes to the master fee and charges schedule. These fee changes are identified in attachment eight to the City Council letter for the second quarter adjustment process. Five departments have proposed a total of. 43 fee changes to the schedule, along with 14 fee deletions. The Master be in charge. His schedule is. Updated at least twice a year and it's allowing departments to meet city council stated policy on user fees, which calls for full cost recovery whenever appropriate. City Council last approved an amended master fee in charge of schedule. As part of the FY16 budget process. Some examples of the fee changes included in. Includes a change in fire inspection fees to reach full cost recovery. And increase in the fee for expedited copies. Of birth certificates, which is an optional. Service available to help department. Customers and an increase in the. Private hauler tip fee at the surface. In order to continue continue to charge market rates and get closer to full cost recovery. The full list of fee changes and deletions is available in attachment to the Council letter. This concludes my staff report and department representatives are here to answer. Any specific questions you may have on. The proposed fee changes. Okay. Let me go go into public comment. Any public comment on this item? Please come forward. Very good. You click as the address. I have a problem with charging the non not for profit paradigms that work out of the row out of the Archer Rowing Center. The same rates as you charge commercial operations and those charges go to the very good. We could get tremendous support from the Marine patrols and in previous years, we never had to pay. For the at a commercial rate, and I would suggest the council revisit that. Again, we're talking only about the events that are the not for profit high school and junior high kids and Cal State. And if you go back and look at that, I think you'll find it a rather ludicrous charge that these nonprofits, the same way we do commercial, i.e. people doing filming or other projects that are commercial enterprise and so very commercial in nature. Thank you. Thank you. Any of the public comment can get a close up the public comment and go back to deliberation from the council. So start off with I have a motion in a second. Councilman Richardson Knope. Okay. Councilman Mongo. I think that there is some great, great and creative things in in the fee schedule. There was a specific item in the airport section about the legend's restaurant and potentially renting it out. I've had some questions with city staff and there's some questions from the community. So at this time, what I'd like to request to get some refinement and make sure that we know what we're doing on all the airport related fees. If we could pull those out and bring those back in six months once we have some more details. If the maker of the motion is open to that, I'm the secondary, so I would definitely be open to that. And I think it would give us an opportunity to ensure that we have some clear footing and understanding of. The dialog. Of the memo. Councilmember I don't have any issues with it, but I do want to hear, since you referenced that staff raise that concern, I do want to hear from staff if there are any challenge with that. So I think that the challenge was in the transition from Bryant to our interim director that maybe we hadn't gotten information out to the community. I think. That's true. So we are totally okay with this motion. I would. Like to clarify that I. Hope would only impact the new fees, not the. Correct. So anything in place now let's keep it. If there's a new fee or an adjustment of fees, let's make sure we get that out into the community and then at that time, bring it back with the next fee schedule revision. Absolutely. Thank you. Great. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Thank you. Yeah, I think we have been a little bit more mindful in what we can do here. I have a couple of questions. I know in here we had addressed a parking meter fees and I believe there was a number of $2. And what was that number exactly? Because I saw the Belmont Shore area was $0.75 and then there was $2 for. The $2 is in the pike. And that's what we had already established in the park. So no new parking fees are being changed or proposed as part of the master fees and charges. Perfect. I just wanted to clarify that. And then as far as the street lighting in the polls are the street lighting. I guess my question was just to clarify that a little bit. So it would be the the adding the lighting and then the wattage as well would be two different fees, is that correct? Councilwoman Gonzalez. Based on the wattage, there would be one. Fee that and so the cheapest one would be. $1,955. And that includes ten years of electricity costs based on the. Size of the wattage. And it would. Range up to $2,971 for the highest wattage. Fixture. And you would pay once for. The installation of the light. And the ten years of energy cost. And this is still something the council offices can pay for, in addition to any residents that want to pay for it as well. That is correct. Okay, perfect. Thank you very much. Councilmember Durango. Thank you, Mayor. In regards to back to the parking meters, is there a. Need or requirement to charge parking on Sundays. Do we do we charge on Sunday? We do. I believe in certain areas, but not in others. I received a couple of complaints from my from some of my residents in regards to Easter Sunday when they parked downtown. And they were they got a ticket for parking in a parking meter on Easter Sunday. Just wondering if if we have a part of the ordinance requires. No, no, no. Charging on holidays and weekends, some weekends. Could we look at maybe not charging on Easter Sunday? So actually, I can't remember. We used to not charge on certain Sundays and now citywide we do charge on Sundays. We actually, in the municipal code have a list of certain holidays that are considered official city holidays that we do not charge on Easter is not one of those that the city council has in the past defined as a as a city holiday. So that's something that the city could do through an ordinance change, obviously, with the addition of the city attorney. And then there would just be a revenue impact for doing that. But we try very, very hard to explain that to people. It's been much better now that we can actually write it on the meter itself. We did have a number of of miscommunication with people who believe that that was a city holiday who did not get that information. So we're going to look into it and report back in terms of whether it be possible or not. I know we're not supposed to mix religion and state affairs, but I think it would be worth at least studying it. Certainly, we can look at that. Thank you. Councilman. Super or not. Thank you. I just have a question for staff and maybe Lisa Erickson can can quantify this a little bit. My understanding was and we we installed a light on an existing pole for 20 $500. Okay. And that's that's a great service we can offer. My understanding as of yesterday that he would go up to 40 $100 because we're going to accommodate the cost of electricity. The numbers you just quoted earlier, I don't think we're in line with that. Or maybe I'm just not hearing them. Right. So actually. The yeah, it does look like the, the rate the. Requested, um, well the cost. We decided, I think that 40 $100 number might have been a 20. Year number and we went down to ten years. And so it is cheaper than what might have been cited. We chose not. To. You just answered it. Thank you very much. Okay. Seeing no other council comment. Councilman Mongo, I think has a. You've made your requests already to remove those those fees from the airport. So we've made a note of that. Members, please, going to cast your vote. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. So moving on to public comment over the first three speakers can come up, please. Uh, I have I think it's Herman Castellanos. I think that says LaShawn Browne and Carmen Collier. Please come forward.