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Boca Raton adopts updated user‑fee schedule, delays full replacement billing for overdue library items
Summary
The council approved an amended user‑fee schedule effective Oct. 1, 2025, including CPI‑based increases to utilities and fees, and agreed to a 30‑day grace period before charging replacement costs for overdue library materials (vote 5–0).
The Boca Raton City Council on Sept. 8 adopted an amended municipal facilities and services user‑fee schedule that includes CPI‑based increases to cemetery, water, sewer and stormwater charges and a series of department‑level fee adjustments.
Jean Michel Knott, internal audit and compliance supervisor, reviewed department proposals that include new or increased fees for development services (annual report review for affordable/workforce housing), higher administrative processing fees for planning and zoning notices, CPI increases in public‑works collection services and adjustments to recreation, library and parking fees. Knott said the CPI used was 3.1% (Miami–Fort Lauderdale–West Palm Beach index, June 2025) and that most changes take effect Oct. 1.
A prominent change prompted council discussion: a library policy that would charge patrons the list price for items presumed lost or damaged rather than a daily overdue charge. Mr. Brown proposed, and the mayor and council supported, an implementation amendment to delay replacement billing for 30 days and retain daily fines (about $0.44 per day) during that period. "Perhaps, Mayor, based upon your suggestion, we could leave item A in here and say for the first 30 days, those should be as fines as 0.44¢ a day," Mr. Brown said; the council adopted the user‑fee resolution with that adjustment.
Other changes noted by Knott include increases to residential solid‑waste curbside collection (from $27.06 to $27.90 monthly) and multifamily container collection fees (from $16.38 to $16.89), updates to CPR/AED training alignment with the American Heart Association, and a new $75 flat fee for life‑safety parking violations (examples: vehicles parked on sidewalks or in bike lanes).
The council approved Resolution 133‑2025 adopting the user‑fee schedule by roll call, 5–0. The amended schedule will be posted to the city’s website when it becomes effective Oct. 1.
