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Council Adopts Resolution 1879 Updating Parks Fees, Cemetery Pricing and CPI Adjustment for School Impact Fee
Summary
The council passed Resolution 1879 updating the Parks Department fee schedule (including a lower-cost swim-team option and cemetery fee adjustments) and recording a CPI-based 3.1% adjustment to the school impact fee; staff said they will review the school district's facilities plan before any deviation from prior policy.
Enumclaw — The City Council on May 26 approved Resolution 1879, a fee-schedule amendment that includes proposed Parks Department changes and cemetery pricing updates and formalizes an inflation adjustment to the school impact fee formula.
Parks & Recreation Director Alina Hibbs (speaker 5) described two Parks fee proposals. She said the department proposes to add a lower-cost two-day swim-team option to provide a more affordable alternative to the existing three-day program and recommended approval. On cemetery pricing, Hibbs and staff explained recent increases in operational and maintenance costs and reduced lot availability; they proposed changes to infant lots, cremation garden lots, multiple sections and alcove niche pricing in the mausoleum. Staff noted the cemetery board was unable to meet to review the changes and brought the item directly to council to avoid penalizing a local funeral-home partner that has already adjusted displays and pricing.
Finance/operations staff (speaker 14) summarized the fee resolution’s automatic inflationary adjustment for school impact fees, noting a 3.1% adjustment based on the Consumer Price Index for the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue area had been implemented April 1 to match permitted permit records and would be revisited once the district’s capital facilities plan is finalized.
A councilmember moved to adopt Resolution 1879 and the council approved it by voice vote. Staff said they will evaluate the school district’s capital facilities plan when it is approved by the school board and bring recommendations to council if deviations from existing policy are warranted.
