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Spokane staff propose regional CPI, ECI and new rounding rules for development fees
Summary
City staff proposed changing the index used to update development-services fees, adding an employment-cost component to reflect government wages, and altering rounding so small fees round to the nearest 5¢ or 10¢ while larger fees round to the nearest dollar; staff asked council to delay implementation until new billing software goes live.
City staff on Dec. 8 proposed changes to how Spokane updates development-services fees, recommending a different consumer-price index and a new rounding approach to limit disproportionate increases on small charges.
Tammy Palmquist outlined the recommendation to substitute the consultant’s original CPI U West measures with a localized CPI subset and to incorporate the Employment Cost Index "for government workers" so the yearly fee adjustments better reflect local wage trends. "We would like to propose to…
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