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WHEREAS, on April 2, 1973, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 6882, which <br />established certain fees and deposits for environmental review, which fees and deposits <br />were most recently amended by Resolution No. 14711; and <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 14711 and Resolution No. 14609, adopted <br />September 27, 2004, the City Council approved cost recovery policies for the City’s <br />Planning Division; and <br />WHEREAS, the City has conducted an extensive analysis of its services to ensure <br />that the fees charged reflect the actual costs to the City and the City’s taxpayers in <br />providing those services; and <br />WHEREAS, Matrix Consulting Group conducted a Cost of Services (User Fee) <br />Study with respect to certain user fees in order to determine the cost to the City of <br />providing such services and provided a final report to the City dated February 16, 2016 <br />(the “Matrix Study”); and <br />WHEREAS, the Matrix Study demonstrated that the City’s current fees for services <br />provided by the City’s Community Development Department, Fire Department, and Police <br />Department were, in the aggregate, insufficient to cover the costs of providing such <br />services; and <br />WHEREAS, it is the general policy of the City to charge for the full costs of services <br />provided by City Staff when such services benefit individual users rather than members <br />of the community as a whole; and <br /> <br />ATTY/RESO.0041/CC RESO AMENDING AND ADOPTING CERTAIN FEES AND CHARGES FOR CD, FIRE, AND POLICE SERVICES <br />REV: 05-04-17 JS <br />Page 2 of 21 <br />8.B. - Page 44