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Baker County hires consultants to study impact fees and solid-waste assessments
Summary
Consultant Peter Napley described a scope to calculate legally defensible impact fees for new development and a solid-waste assessment to recover full costs; commissioners approved separate engagements and discussed data deadlines tied to a 12-month statutory rule.
The Baker County Commission agreed to engage consultants to perform two studies intended to guide future fees and assessments.
Peter Napley of Sante Consulting told the board the impact-fee study would inventory county service demands, work with department heads and the property appraiser, and produce a fee schedule by dwelling unit or nonresidential category. "The impact fee analysis typically takes one to two months for preliminary results," Napley said; the full scope, including implementation and public hearings, could follow over several months. He noted that state law requires data used to be within 12 months of adoption, tightening the project timeline.
Napley also described a solid-waste assessment study designed to set rates that recover operational and capital solid-waste costs and produce a database for tax-bill collection if the county elects to place assessments on property tax rolls. Commissioners asked staff to coordinate data collection (finance, property appraiser, department service-level data) and confirmed the studies will include public hearings and legal defensibility reviews. The board approved separate motions to engage the consultants for the impact-fee and solid-waste assessment studies.
