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Consultant offers cost-based fee study; Stonecrest council to weigh competitiveness and equity
Summary
Matrix Consulting presented a comprehensive user‑fee study recommending cost‑based fees across nearly 300 line items; councilors pressed staff to balance cost recovery with competitiveness, protect youth and low-income users, and pursue staged implementation with public engagement.
Matrix Consulting presented Stonecrest’s comprehensive user‑fee study at the Nov. 10 council meeting, showing how fully‑loaded staff time and overhead produce cost‑based ceiling figures for nearly 300 fee line items.
"We're really setting fees at the cost of the service," the consultant said during the presentation, explaining the methodology: multiply time‑on‑task by fully burdened staff rates and add allocations for supplies, vehicles…
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