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Post Falls staff reports about $5.2M in FY2024 impact fees, reserves reported near $16M
Summary
City planner presented the FY2023–24 development impact fee report showing roughly $5.2 million collected in FY2024 and about $3.5 million spent on roads, parks and public safety; staff listed major projects and noted overall balances of about $16.0M–$16.4M, with some slide figures varying.
City planning staff presented the Post Falls development impact fee report for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 and walked the commission through collections, expenditures and project uses.
Planner Paige Hunt said the report, required of Idaho local governments that collect impact fees, summarizes funds that new development pays to support new or expanded public capital facilities. Hunt told commissioners FY2024 collections were approximately $5,200,000 and that about $3,500,000 of those fees were spent on roads, parks and public-safety projects in the year. Hunt said impact fees must be used for system‑improvement costs and are tracked on a first‑in, first‑out basis; a governmental entity may hold fees longer than eight years only if it identifies a reasonable cause and an anticipated date.
The presentation highlighted specific projects and large expenditures: Pulleyne and the Spokane roundabout were listed at roughly $2.3 million under roads; parks land acquisition was shown at about $1.9 million; public‑safety land acquisition appeared at about $1.7 million. Hunt also showed summary balances of approximately $16,000,000 in one slide and $16,400,000 in another; staff explained the panes display different views (fiscal‑year flows versus total balances) but did not produce additional documentation in the meeting to reconcile those specific totals.
Commissioners pressed staff for details about the large 2023 land purchases. Community Development Director Opsil said he could not recall every item from memory but identified a Hargraves purchase of about 15 acres that he said was split roughly 5 acres to parks and 10 acres to public works. Staff characterized the report as informational for the commission (acting in its role as the impact fee committee) and said no formal decision was required at this meeting; the report will be available for council review per the usual process.
No formal policy changes or appropriations were made at the meeting; staff said planned projects will draw on the impact‑fee balances shown in the report.
