Work and meet with City staff to refine the project scope, purpose, uses, goals, and timeline of the City’s Comprehensive User Fee Study to ensure that the study will be both accurate and appropriate to the City’s needs. Review project schedules and answer any questions pertaining to the successful development of the study. 2. Meet with staff and conduct interviews as needed to gain an understanding of the City’s processes and operations. Conduct a comprehensive review of the City’s existing fees, rates, and charges. 3. Identify the total cost of providing each City service at the appropriate activity level and in a manner consistent with all applicable laws, statutes, rules, and regulations governing the collection of fees, rates, and charges by public entities including, but not limited to, Proposition 26 and Proposition 218. 4. Compare service costs with existing recovery levels. This should include any service areas where the City is currently charging for services as well as areas where perhaps the City should charge, considering the City’s practices, or the practices of similar or neighboring cities. 5. Recommend potential new fees and charges for services the City currently provides but does not have any fees and/or charges established. Recommendations should be based on practices by surrounding cities that may charge for similar services, industry best practices, or the consultant’s professional opinion. 6. Recommend appropriate fees and charges based on the firm’s analysis together with the appropriate subsidy percentage of those fees where full cost recovery may be unrealistic. 7. Prepare a report that identifies each fee service, its full cost, current cost recovery levels, and recommended cost recovery levels. The report should also identify the direct cost, the indirect cost, and the overhead cost for each service. 8. Prepare a report that identifies the present fees, recommended fees, percentage change, cost recovery percentage, revenue impact and fee comparison with other San Luis Obispo County cities or other California cities that are comparable to the City. A survey comparison of rates and fees with similar cities is required.
