Citizen Portal
Sign In

Ione council directs staff to study and update building-fee schedule, issue RFP

Ione City Council · December 23, 2025
AI-Generated Content: All content on this page was generated by AI to highlight key points from the meeting. For complete details and context, we recommend watching the full video. so we can fix them.

Summary

Council approved a motion to hire consultants to review local building-permit fees (last updated in 2016) and directed staff to issue an RFP for a fee-study and update, with a recommendation to repeat the review every five years.

The Ione City Council directed staff to begin a formal update of the municipal building-fee schedule and to issue an RFP for a fee study at its Dec. 16 meeting.

A councilmember said the last comprehensive fee review occurred in 2016 and that many fee categories now appear inconsistent (for example, that adding a deck and installing a hot-water heater were charged similarly). The council discussed updating the schedule to reflect current costs and agreed the review should be repeated every five years; the motion to issue an RFP passed on a voice vote.

Council did not specify the consultant selection criteria in the meeting; staff was directed to begin the RFP process and return to council with proposals and a recommended timeline.