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Council approves modest fee increases for city services, including new inspection and event fees
Summary
The city council approved a package of modest fee increases and new fees across building, fire, parks, police and water departments after a public hearing with no public commenters.
The Coeur d'Alene City Council approved a bundled resolution updating multiple city fees after a public hearing. The resolution included changes proposed by building, finance, fire, library, municipal services, parks and recreation, police and water departments.
Highlights: building-department fees were adjusted to reflect current fully loaded hourly wage rates for inspections and review (several permit categories were clarified and a temporary certificate of occupancy fee was added); the fire department added a general-inspection fee and set a fee for state-required daycare inspections performed by local staff; municipal services increased some business-license and door-to-door solicitation fees; parks and recreation added or adjusted fees for niche-wall spaces and weekend cemetery usage; police updated off-duty/off-site security and traffic-control rates for contracted services; and the water department’s previously discussed rate changes were included.
Staff told council the majority of changes are modest and intended to recover staff time or reflect wage-rate increases. Notice of the proposed fee changes was published and posted on the city website; no members of the public signed up to speak at the hearing. Council adopted Resolution 25-037 by roll call vote.
What’s next: departments will implement fee changes as stated in the resolution and staff said they will continue to refine special-event permitting to better align staffing needs and expectations for block closures and other temporary uses.
