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Cities warn against narrowing user‑fee authority; transportation utility fee, billboard and broadband bills on radar
Summary
League staff led a discussion and Slido poll about municipal fee authority and potential legislation limiting who pays user fees; members flagged concerns about exempting churches/nonprofits from transportation utility fees, and staff noted upcoming bills on billboard relocation and municipal broadband.
League staff discussed the legal and political differences between taxes and fees and asked LPC members to weigh in on proposed limitations to municipal user‑fee authority, especially proposals that would exempt certain users (for example, houses of worship) from transportation utility fees.
Staff reiterated legal principles: user fees should be reasonably related to use and only spent for the purpose related to that use. Participants said restricting who pays user fees risks eroding municipal fee authority. League staff said…
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