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Council reviews ordinance to align code with master fee schedule; stray-dog fee debated
Summary
Staff presented an ordinance to remove hard-coded fee amounts from code and refer fees to a master fee schedule; council members discussed adding a fee for stray-animal pick-up and whether existing $50 penalties are adequate.
Staff explained the proposed ordinance would remove fee amounts embedded in city code and instead direct the council to set fees through the master fee schedule, avoiding future conflicts between code language and the schedule. "There were fee fee amounts that were put specifically into the code provisions themselves," the staff member said, describing the change as a cleanup to make code consistent with existing practice.
Council members raised specific fee questions during the review: several said they were comfortable approving the schedule as written to allow further discussion of additional items later, while others flagged the absence of a stray-dog pickup fee and questioned enforcement. One council member said, "I think $50 is not adequate," when discussing the current penalty level for dogs running at large. Staff said the ordinance gives the council flexibility to add fees by resolution and recommended approving the master list as a baseline with the option to add items later.
