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Commission directs a new fire-assessment study and moves to end nonprofit exemption
Summary
After discussing timing and equity concerns, the commission authorized staff to begin a new fire-assessment study (estimated cost $40,000) and agreed to change nonprofit coverage from an 80% exemption so nonprofits will pay the full assessment; staff will include the change in the preliminary fire-assessment resolution.
City finance staff and commissioners on March 23 debated whether to increase the city's residential fire-assessment fee and how to balance potential reductions in property-tax revenue with service funding.
Bridget Souffrant, the city's chief financial officer, recapped a 2019 study that set a residential fee ceiling of $231 and said raising the residential rate to that ceiling could produce roughly $9.2 million in additional revenue; an intermediate $150 rate would produce about $3.1 million. She said the study methodology looks at five…
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