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Adelanto council to update master fee schedule after user-fee study finds $1.3M shortfall

Adelanto City Council · May 7, 2026
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Summary

A Matrix Consulting Group study presented Jan. 13 found Adelanto is recovering about 38% of the cost to provide fee-related services, leaving an estimated $1.3 million annual shortfall. Council voted to receive the report and directed staff to prepare a resolution to update the master fee schedule for formal adoption Jan. 27.

Adelanto officials on Jan. 13 received a citywide cost-allocation and user-fee study that found the city is recovering roughly 38% of the full cost to provide fee-related services, leaving an estimated $1.3 million gap that the general fund currently covers.

The report, presented by Ward Comer's finance director and Khushbu Hussain of Matrix Consulting Group, recommended establishing a general-plan maintenance fee and a technology fee and moving toward a 100% cost-recovery policy for many permit- and planning-related services. "First is that the city is only recovering 38% of the cost to provide fee-related…

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