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EXHIBIT Category Costing Methodology Examples of Fees in Category A. Impact Fees Based on the capital costs Residential construction fee of the City infrastructure Capital improvement fee impacted by proposed Sewer connection fee development. Developed Water connection fee within AB1600 guidelines Growth management fee from State. "Affordable Housing" fee B. Improper Behavior Full City costs plus penalty Traffic fines or parking amount where enforcement appropriate. Theft, willful destruction of property Vandalism C. Control of Full cost recovery. Fire Inspection Fees Potentially Harmful Pawn Shop Permits Activities Building Inspection Fees D. Services to/for an Full cost recovery. Planning or Engineering work individual or group associated with processing of a and enterprise fund subdivision map, building permits, activities or public R/W Company's exclusive rental of facility Water/Sewer monthly charges non -willful harm to City property E. Service Supporting Out-of-pocket cost Recreation Fee (unless facilities General City Policy recovery. therefore not available to general public) Safety Training (CPR, fire prevention) F. Normal City Services No Charge. Street maintenance, Park maintenance, law enforcement, fire response, etc. In addition to and overriding the above categories are enterprise fund activities. These are typically similar to category D above, in that the City would recover all of its costs and overhead. However, with enterprise funds including Water and Sewer, the capital costs required to support the activity are typically significant, and it is the City's policy to recover their costs directly from the users of the enterprise fund services. This includes depreciation or other method of provision for capital facility replacement. No other City services would normally include provision for replacement of capital facilities. C. MAINTENANCE OF FEE LEVEL The Policy of the City is to maintain fees at a level consistent with the costs associated with each service. To accomplish this, the City will: 1. Annual departmental submission of recommended fees. Each department is directed every November to review its costs associated with each existing fee for service and to determine whether it has added any services during the year, or is contemplating adding any services in the upcoming fiscal year for which a fee should be charged. It should then report to the Finance Director by December 31 of each year as to the changing costs of providing services and/or the proposed new fees and the basis for each. It is not necessary for the department to report to the Finance Director on fees for which the only changes are basic inflationary changes. This directive is not intended to