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City Manager’s Report
TO:HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL 4
FROM:CITY MANAGER DEPARTMENT:ADMINISTRATIVE
SERVICES
DATE:JULY 16, 2001 CMR: 311:01
SUBJECT:APPROVAL OF A BUDGET AMENDMENT ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE 2001-02 MUNICIPAL FEE SCHEDULE TO
CORRECT FOR AN OMITTED FEE CHANGE
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached Budget Amendment Ordinance
(BAO) that amends the 2001-02 Palo Alto Municipal Fee Schedule to restore a fee that was
inadvertently omitted (Attachment C).
DISCUSSION
With the adoption of the 2001-02 Municipal Fee Schedule, Council approved various cost
recovery increases to development-related fees in the Planning Department. These changes
are projected to increase revenue by $233,000 in 2001-02. The Real Property Research Fee
is one of the development-related fees in the Planning Department that was to increase, from
$25 to $50, as part of the cost recovery fee increases. The fee however, was inadvertently
omitted from the fee schedule that Council adopted and is therefore restored to the fee
schedule as presented in Attachment C. In accordance with state law, the fee increase will
not go into effect until sixty (60) days after Council adoption.
The other line item that was omitted from the fee schedule is a text reference to the Record
Management Fee that has no financial impact. This item is also restored as presented in
Attachment C.
RESOURCE IMPACT
The anticipated revenue impact of the increase to the Real Property Research fee is $5,000
annually. This revenue was included in the $233,000 that was originally estimated as the
overall impact of the development-related fee increases presented in the 2001-02 Municipal
Fee Schedule.
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This transaction as presented in the attached BAO has no impact on the General Fund Budget
Stabilization Reserve (BSR) and no furore year General Fund ongoing costs are anticipated
as a result of this BAO. Attachment B summarizes the BAOs approved to date in 2001-02
that impact the General Fund BSR. The attachment also estimates future year ongoing co~ts
associated with BAOs approved to date to provide a projection for the future resource needs
from the General Fund for those programs approved after the adoption of the 2001-02
budget.
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
This recommendation does not represent a change to City policy.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
This is not a project for the purposes of the Califomia Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
ATTACHMENTS
ATTACHMENT A: Budget Amendment Ordinance
ATTACHMENT B: Budget Amendment Ordinances Impacting the General Fund Approved
to Date in 2001-02
ATTACHMENT C: Revised Planning Department, Inspection Services 2001-02 Fee
Schedule
PREPARED BY:
DEPARTMENT HEAD:
CITY MANAGER APPROVAL:
DAVID RAMBERG
Senior Financial Analyst
C r~ectoYEATS
r, Administrative Services
EMILY HARRISON
Assistant City Manager
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ATTACHMENT A
ORDINANCE NO.
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO TO
AMEND THE 2001-02 MUNICIPAL FEE SCHEDULE AND THE BUDGET
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2001-02 TO RESTORE FEES THAT WERE
INADVERTENTLY OMITTED ~
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of Ar%icle
III of the Charter of the City of Palo Alto, the Council on jun~ ii,
2001 did adopt a budget for fisca! year 2001-02; and
WHEREAS, in the adopted 2001-02 Municipal Fee Schedule the
Real Property Research fee and a reference to the Record Management
Fee in the Planning Department were inadvertently omitted; and
WHEREAS, these items, including an increase to the Real
Property Research fee, as presented in Attachment C must now be
restored to the 2001-02 Municipal Fee Schedule; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Fee Schedule needs to be amended to
implement these changes; and
WHEREAS, the impact of the change to the Real Property
Research fee is already included in estimated revenue figures in the
2001-02 Budget and no further impact to the General Fund Budget
Stabilization Reserve is anticipated as a result of this change; and
WHEREAS, City Council authorization is needed to amend the
2001-02 Municipal Fee Schedule and the budget as hereinafter set
forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does
ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION i. The Municipal Fee Schedule is hereby amended to
reflect the changes shown in Attachment C, which is attached hereto
and incorporated herein by reference.
SECTION 4. This change will not impact the General Fund Budget
Stabilization Reserve.
SECTION 5. As specified in Section 2.28.080(a) of the Palo
Alto Municipal Code, a two-thirds vote of the City Council is
required to adopt this ordinance.
SECTION 6. The Council of the City of Palo Alto hereby finds
that this is not a project under the California Environmental
Quality Act and, therefore, no environmental impact assessment is
necessary.
SECTION 7. As provided in Section 2.04.350 of the Palo Alto
Municipal Code, this ordinance shall become effective upon adoption;
provided, however, that the increase to the Real Property Research
Fee shall be effective sixty (60) days from the date of ~doption.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED :
AYES :
NOES :
ABSTENTIONS :
ABSENT:
ATTEST :APPROVED:
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:City Manager
Senior Asst. City Attorney Director of Administrative
Services
Director of Planning and
Community Environment
City of Palo Alto
ATTACHMENT B
Budget Amendment Ordinances Impacting General Fund Reserves Approved-To-Date in 2001-02
BAO Description
Placeholdere Impact on the Estimated
Cost Revenue Already in the General Fund Future Year2001-02 Adopted BSR Ongoing CostsBudget
Balance
Adopted Budget Addition to BSR
Municipal Fee Schedule Correction
$21,756,000
$0 $0 $0 $0
BSR Balance After BAO’s 523,002,000 I
7110101