To: Board of Supervisors
From: County Administrative Office
Agenda Section: Public Hearing
SUBJECT:
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Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of an Ordinance for the 2022 Update of the Humboldt County Schedule of Fees and Charges (4/5 Vote Required)
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Open the public hearing;
2. Introduces by title, Ordinance No.____ (Attachment III), updating the Humboldt County Schedule of Fees and Charges for 2022;
3. Waive the first reading of the Ordinance;
4. Receives the staff report and public comments;
5. Approves and/or modifies the new, increased, decreased, deleted or changed fees, as shown in the 2022 Humboldt County Schedule of Fees and Charges (Attachment I);
6. Adopts the Ordinance:
7. Directs the Clerk of the Board, within 15 days, to publish a post-adoption summary of the Ordinance (Attachment IV) with the names of the Supervisors voting for and against the Ordinance, and to post in the office of the Clerk of the Board a certified copy of the full text of the adopted Ordinance and amendments along with the names of those Supervisors voting for and against the Ordinance [Government Code Section 25124 (b)(1)]; and
8. Close the public hearing.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
All County Funds
DISCUSSION:
Annually, county departments review fees and charges to determine whether such fees and charges are sufficient to recoup costs associated with providing services to the public. Attachment Ia provides a comparison of the existing fees and charges to those provided to be effective May 16, 2022. For new fees or those that are proposed to change, calculations supporting the new charge are contained in Attachment II. Primarily, the changes reflect fees are that being updated and/or clarified after review by the appropriate department to ensure cost recovery of services to the maximum extent possible.
Government Code Sections 54986 and 66018 require that prior to adopting a resoluti...
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