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Board approves environmental‑health fee changes but delays food‑service and body‑art increases
Summary
After a NBS study showed environmental‑health fees covered about 82% of costs, the board voted to adopt a comprehensive fee schedule to reach full cost recovery but agreed to hold food‑facility and body‑art permit increases for additional review and outreach, directing staff to return in January with comparative analyses.
The Board of Supervisors voted Dec. 9 to adopt a revised environmental‑health fee schedule aimed at moving the department from roughly 82% to 100% cost recovery, but set aside the food‑facility and body‑art permit components for further study and outreach.
Dr. Sarah Rudman, director of the County Public Health Department, and Marilyn Underwood, Environmental Health director, presented a fee study produced by NBS that compared Santa Clara County’s fees to peer Bay Area counties and calculated hourly rates and direct/indirect costs. Underwood said the department would like to…
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