Citizen Portal
Sign In

Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!

Consultant outlines possible police impact fee schedule, projects $9M over 10 years

Fort Myers City Council · December 8, 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

City consultant presented a police impact fee proposal that calculates an $838 per-equivalent-dwelling-unit basis and a $8.38 single-family fee; councilmembers pressed on growth assumptions, fee application only to new construction, and how revenue could be applied to a planned police headquarters.

A consultant hired by the city presented a police impact fee study recommending a fee schedule based on a $64.8 million existing public-safety asset base and a calculated cost-recovery rate of $838 per equivalent dwelling unit (EDU). Chris Tenney, director of financial services, introduced Peter Napoli of Santech Consulting, who said the study used replacement-cost assumptions tied to a planned police headquarters and inventory of vehicles to set the fee basis.

“The city has plans to build the new police headquarters around the time of fiscal year 2027,” Peter Napoli said, and the study used an $850 per-square-foot replacement cost to compute facility…

Already have an account? Log in

Subscribe to keep reading

Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.

  • Unlimited articles
  • AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
  • Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
  • Follow topics and more locations
  • 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
30-day money-back on paid plans