Roswell committee approves hiring Tishler Bice for impact-fee update; council to ratify

Community Development Director Michelle Alexander told the Roswell City Council’s all-committees meeting on Jan. 14, 2025, that staff recommends awarding a contract for an update to the city’s development impact-fee study to consultant Tishler Bice and moving the contract to the regular council agenda for final approval.

Alexander said the city last updated its impact fees in 2015 and that the study will review fees that fund parks and recreation, transportation and public safety. “The last time you did an update was 2015,” she said, adding that the update will examine levels of service, the capital improvements element of the comprehensive plan, and financial reporting requirements the state requires for impact-fee programs.

The update is a budgeted item in the FY2025 work plan. Alexander told council members the city budgeted $100,000 for the study and that procurement returned a single responsive proposal at about $77,000, and that staff and purchasing recommend moving forward. She said the work should take roughly five months and could be shorter because Roswell already has recent studies — including a fire…