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04/09/2018 RESOLUTION NO. 15652 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY AMENDING AND ADOPTING CERTAIN FEES AND CHARGES FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND FIRE SERVICES WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Redwood City ("City") is empowered to impose reasonable fees, rates, and charges to offset the costs for municipal services; and; WHEREAS, the City Council has, through prior actions, adopted various fees and charges requested by individual City Departments; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 15583, adopted May 8, 2017, the City Council adopted certain fees for the Community Development, Police, and Fire Departments, including approval of an annual increase of the fees to reflect the net change in average City salaries and benefits costs for each fiscal year (the "Annual Cost Adjustment"); and WHEREAS, the Community Development and Fire Departments recommend amending certain existing fees and adopting certain new fees to better reflect the services they provide and to recover appropriate costs; and WHEREAS, in Fiscal Year 2016 Matrix Consulting Group conducted a Cost of Services (User Fee) Study with respect to certain user fees in order to determine the cost to the City of providing such services and provided a final report to the City dated February 16, 2017 (the "Matrix Study"); and WHEREAS, the Community Development and Fire Departments have conducted subsequent extensive analysis of their respective services to ensure that the fees charged reflect the actual costs to the City and the City's taxpayers in providing those services; and WHEREAS, the City utilized the cost recovery model developed by Matrix Consulting Group to determine the appropriate amounts for the Proposed Fees (as defined below), and, in so doing, the City applied the applicable Annual Cost Adjustment to the hourly rates set forth in the Matrix Study; and WHEREAS, it is the general policy of the City to charge for the full costs of services provided by City Staff when such services benefit individual users rather than members of the community as a whole; and ATTY/RESO.0022/CC RESO AMENDING AND ADOPTING CD & FIRE SERVICE FEES RESOLUTION NO. 15652 REV: 04-04-18 JS MUFF NO. 301 Page 1 of 9