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Fulton County approves changes to environmental‑health fee schedule to cover new services and reinspections
Summary
The Board approved a revised fee schedule for environmental health Aug. 5 after staff said fees align with metro counties and will fund additional services — including charges for reinspections and fees for services not previously charged.
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted Aug. 5 to modify the Board of Health’s environmental‑health fee schedule, a package staff said is intended to align Fulton with other metro counties and to pay for services the department has provided without previously charging.
Explaining the methodology, environmental‑health staff said they performed a fee comparison with neighboring metro counties to establish parity and to cover costs for services now charged in other jurisdictions. "So what we did is we did a, fee comparison with our other, metro counties around, and, we based it upon because we want it to be fair," staff said during the hearing.
Commissioners asked whether the changes represented material increases or only marginal adjustments; staff said many items formalize charges for services already provided (for example, additional reinspection visits after noncompliance) and that some fees were lowered to meet state rules (septic inspector exam fees set at $50 or less by state rule). The board moved to approve the resolution to modify the fee schedule; the motion passed on a recorded vote of 5–0.
County staff said the additional revenue is meant to sustain expanded inspection capacity — the department has recently added environmental health inspectors and expanded services at the new North Fulton clinic — and to reduce ongoing manual workload tied to repeated inspections and outreach.
