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Vallejo council presses staff to rethink user‑fee changes after consultant recommends broad increases
Summary
Consultants told the council Vallejo recovers about 60% of analyzed service costs and could raise $1.4 million annually by adjusting fees; council members asked for equity safeguards, incentives for development, targeted subsidies and phased implementation before approving major increases.
Consultants from MGT presented a citywide user‑fee study at the Sept. 2 Vallejo City Council meeting that recommended updating dozens of fees across fire prevention, planning and building, and water services to align charges closer to the full cost of service. Ricardo Seppin, director at MGT, said the analysis of FY24–25 budgets and staffing showed the city currently recovers roughly 60% of costs for the fees analyzed and that implementing the consultant’s policy targets could lift overall recovery to about 83%, producing an estimated $1.4 million a year in additional revenue.
The study proposed department‑level targets (for example, 100% cost recovery for fire prevention and water; 80% for building; 62% for planning) and recommended a mixture of…
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