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Environmental Health proposes multi‑year fee modernization, warns general fund currently subsidizes inspections
Summary
Director Jerry Oster told the Inyo County Board of Supervisors the environmental‑health fee schedule needs a comprehensive update to reflect modern costs and travel time, and proposed adopting a burdened hourly rate that would add vehicles, IT and county overhead to current salary‑based calculations.
Jerry Oster, director of Environmental Health, presented a proposal to modernize Chapter 7 (the department fee schedule) that the department says is 13 years old and contains outdated line items. Oster asked the board to authorize a process to: reclassify some facilities to risk‑based categories (low/medium/high risk instead of seat counts for restaurants), remove laboratory and public‑water items the county no longer performs, define environmental drilling and other new…
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