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Board identifies modest fee and rate changes as preferred near-term revenue levers
Summary
Members and staff discussed fee benchmarking and targeted rate adjustments — including a 5% business-tax adjustment, event-fee matrix changes, lien research and cost-recovery opportunities — that together could add several million dollars to FY2027 estimates if implemented thoughtfully.
The Budget Advisory Board reviewed a set of near-term revenue levers that staff and members say can be implemented without resorting to broad tax increases.
Olivier summarized revenue-estimating work that focused on roughly $110 million of revenue lines and reported an identified $2.4 million of additional baseline revenue plus an estimated $1.6 million from targeted fee benchmarking and modest increases in customer volumes: "we uncovered already an extra 2.4 million versus the initial OM department estimate...and there is…
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