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General Services Director Ingram reviewed the information that went to the neighborhoods. He described the total costs of the current stormwater program for FY 1994/95 of$741,000 plus additional monies paid to take care oflagoons, the shores and sewer and storm systems out at Seaport Centre. The figure is a current recap of what the city spent this fiscal year. Capital funds to support the stormwater system are also needed. The committee used the budget number of $862,000 and considered what it would take in fees to support that level of capital financing. The User Fee Category chart refers to the City of San Carlos because they are a neighboring city and they have a good clean simple formula to divide the categories of their user fees. Costs are based on the Dwelling Unit Equivalent (D.U.E.) factor. One of the questions that will be looked at is what is a reasonable distribution of costs by category group. Vice Mayor Hartnett asked whether the imposition of this fee is simply by a majority vote of the Council and not subject to a vote by the electorate. General Services Director Ingram replied that user fees can be enacted by a majority of the City Council. City Attorney Schricker stated that there would be a publication of hearing, a hearing on the initiation of the fee and a full engineers report. General Services Director Ingram confirmed a fee would be established based on the engineer's report and the data would be given to the County Assessor who would then add it as a line item to the parcel tax roll. Robert Eppler of Brian Kangas Foulk spoke about several approaches that can be used for collection. City Attorney Schricker requested that the staff look at options in terms of first year start up and notification requirement costs. MEMO 4/18/95 Mayor Gasparini asked why parcels and households are billed when autos are a main source of pollution. General Services Director Ingram replied that even though autos are a source of pollution, one reason that the cost is connected with parcels is that there is a link between parcels, land use and trip generations per day. Councilwoman LaBerge thanked the staff and the committee members for their work and also for looking at it from a business perspective. Councilwoman Howard thanked Peter Ingram for working with the community. Councilwoman Buchan asked for clarification on the classification of mobile home parks. MINUTE BOOK NO. 53 Regular Adjourned Council Meeting/Study Session Minutes Page No. 136 Apri117,1995 Page 3 ---~- ~ ---~