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Council directs staff to explore letting fire district collect mitigation fees, asks to restore 2% administrative share
Summary
Council members signaled support for revisiting how the city collects fire mitigation fees — potentially returning collection to Lake County Fire Protection District and restoring a 2% administrative fee to the district — and asked staff to draft ordinance changes for future readings.
The Clear Lake City Council directed staff to revisit the city’s collection of fire mitigation fees and explore whether Lake County Fire Protection District should collect them directly.
City staff and Fire Chief representatives briefed the council on the mitigation-fee framework, including that the Mitigation Fee Act allows cities or counties to collect development impact fees but special districts generally cannot do so directly. The council had previously adopted updated fees based on a nexus study;…
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