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Tuolumne supervisors ask staff to return with scaled options to ease steep environmental health fee increases
Summary
After business owners described fee spikes that reached triple earlier levels, the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors asked staff to return in December with a matrix of fee options based on the 2023 baseline and estimates of impacts to the general fund and affected businesses.
Tuolumne County supervisors directed staff on Oct. 7 to return with specific, numbered options for rolling back recent environmental health consumer-protection fee increases and projections of how each option would affect the county general fund.
The request followed an extended public and board discussion in which small-business owners and county supervisors described fee hikes that, by some accounts, rose by as much as 300 percent after the county adopted a 100 percent cost-recovery goal. Interim County Administrator Roger Root said staff will use the county’s 2023 fee schedule as a baseline and present a matrix showing how moving to different cost-recovery percentages would change fees and how much the general fund would have to make up.
The issue drew sustained comment at a town hall and in public testimony. Supervisor Mike Holland…
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