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City of Pleasanton <br /> FEE POLICY <br />(Exhibit I of Resolution NO. 92- <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />A. GENERAL POLICY <br /> <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 /> <br />B. CATEGORIES OF SERVICE <br /> <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 /> <br />Development which impacts municipal infrastructure costs. <br /> <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 processing 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 /> <br />2. Fees or charges designed to discourage impro~r behavior. <br /> <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 /> <br />City of PleasanWa <br />Fe~ Policy <br /> <br />Page I May 1992 <br /> <br /> <br />