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City of Pleasanton Operating Budget • FY 2023/24 - FY 2024/25C - 4 <br />Fee Policy <br />(Adopted by Resolution No. 92-99) <br />The Fee Policy is established to assist all departments in determining how any specific fee should be <br />established, to help assure equitable treatment of all citizens and to structure the maintenance of fees at a <br />current cost level. <br />Furthermore, the Fee Policy establishes categories of services for which the City desires to collect such fees <br />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 individuals <br />and/or groups served to the extent that individual members of the public are benefiting from specific <br />City facilities or personnel in a way different from that enjoyed by all citizens. To the extent that the <br />City organizes some of its activities into enterprise funds, such activities should recover all of their <br />costs even if they benefit essentially all 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 categories <br />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 policy to charge them <br />for the costs of the additional roadways, road widening(s), traffic control devices, water/sewer lines <br />or processing capacity, and other related capital costs the City must spend to support the new <br />development and the impacts it creates. The policy of the City Council is that these fees will include <br />all cost expended or expected to be expended by the City in creating or performing these support <br />activities, either in cash or in such in-kind as may be approved by the City Manager, as provided by <br />State legislation. <br />2. Fees or charges designed to discourage improper behavior. <br /> This would include traffic fines, parking enforcement, vandalism repair, theft or willful destruction of <br />City property, building code infractions, etc. There is no need for these charges to be constrained by <br />the cost of the enforcement activity. While they should at least meet this cost, they will generally be <br />expected to be more than the cost of enforcement to discourage repeat offenses. <br />3. Services designed to control activities which could be harmful to others. <br /> This includes fire inspection fees, many types of police permits, building inspections, etc. In these <br />cases, the individual has probably done nothing wrong, but is engaged in an activity which could be <br />harmful to others if conducted incorrectly. These fees should be set at full cost recovery. Full cost <br />recovery includes direct labor costs (salary and benefits), allocated cost of supervision, pro-rata <br />departmental management costs, City-wide overhead allocation, and physical facility or equipment <br />hourly costs. This does not include criminal activities for which there are other penalties.