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Council adopts annual monitoring fee for short-term rentals to cover enforcement costs
Summary
Council adopted an updated fee schedule that includes an annual fee to recoup monitoring and enforcement costs for short-term rentals; staff said the calculated per‑license share came to 'a little over 250 dollars' and that they 'rounded down' in the presented figure.
Council held a public hearing and adopted an update to the FY25‑26 fee schedule that includes an annual monitoring fee for short‑term vacation rentals to recover enforcement and monitoring costs (finance, code enforcement, contracted monitoring software and a 24‑hour hotline).
“As we take all those costs and divide them by the number of licensed rentals, it came up to a little over 250, dollars. So I rounded down to $2.50, and that's how we came up with that fee number,” Finance Director Matt Baker (S8) said in the presentation. The fee will appear on the annual business‑license renewal packet and applies to permitted rentals, grandfathered rentals and conditional‑use permits; the staff noted it will not apply to banked units.
Why it matters: the fee is intended to cover city expenses for monitoring listings, enforcing limits and operating the 24‑hour hotline. Council moved to adopt the updated fee schedule; the vote was recorded as 4 ayes, 1 absent.
