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City of Pleasanton <br /> FEE POLICY <br /> (Exhibit I of Resolution No. 92- ) <br /> The Fee Policy is established to assist all departments in determining how any specific fee <br /> should be established, to help assure equitable treatment of all citizens, and to structure the <br /> maintenance of fees at a current cost level. <br /> Furthermore, the Fee Policy establishes categories of services for which the City desires to <br /> collect such fees and upon which the level of cost recovery is determined. <br /> A. GENERAL POLICY <br /> It is the general policy of the City of Pleasanton to recover its costs of service from the <br /> individuals and/or groups served to the extent that individual members of the public are <br /> benefiting from specific City facilities or personnel in a way different from that enjoyed <br /> by all citizens. To the extent that the City organizes some of its activities into enterprise <br /> funds, such activities should recover all of their costs even if they benefit essentially all <br /> of the citizens. <br /> B. CATEGORIES OF SERVICE <br /> From a policy standpoint, the Council expects City services to be placed in one of six <br /> categories before a fee is established or considered for any specific service: <br /> 1. Development which impacts municipal infrastructure costs. <br /> When additional housing or commercial units are being built, it is the City's <br /> policy to charge them for the costs of the additional roadways, road widening(s), <br /> traffic control devices, water/sewer lines or prose$sing capacity, and other related <br /> capital costs the City must spend to support the new development and the impacts <br /> it creates. The policy of the City Council is that these fees will include all cost <br /> expended or expected to be expended by the City in creating or performing these <br /> support activities, either in cash or in such in-kind as ..,ay be approved by the <br /> City Manager, as provided by State legislation. - <br /> 2. Fees or charges designed to discourage improper behavior. <br /> This would include traffic fines, parking enforcement, vandalism repair, theft or <br /> willful destruction of City property, building code infractions, etc. There is no <br /> need for these charges to be constrained by the cost of the enforcement activity. <br /> While they should at least meet this cost, they will generally be expected to be <br /> more than the cost of enforcement to discourage repeat offenses. <br /> City of Pleasanton <br /> Fee Policy Page 1 May 1992 <br />