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Santa Paula council adopts updated user-fee schedule after debate over CPI escalation, park fees and enforcement charges
Summary
After a lengthy hearing and edits to recommended language, Santa Paula's City Council adopted a revised user-fee resolution directing staff to review CPI-based fee adjustments during the regular budget process, clarified nuisance/party fees and added new parks and water-service charges.
The Santa Paula City Council on Oct. 15 adopted a revised user-fee schedule after a public hearing and extended discussion on how fees should be adjusted for inflation and how certain enforcement and service-call charges should be applied.
Staff presentation: Christy Ramirez, who led the fee study presentation with consultant Preeti (on Zoom), summarized a cost-allocation study that identifies roughly $5.7 million in allocable administrative costs and recommended several new or clarified fees across departments, including new parks-and-recreation fees for buildings and fields, water meter installation and a $69 "general services" call charge for certain nonemergency water-system service calls.
Council debate and edits: Council members debated whether annual CPI increases should occur automatically…
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