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rni LI "09 C F - Sf • AGENDA ATrAaLKENT 9 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPART:1,17NT 'ffrT.J.SBOROUGH NORTH CAROLLNA. 27278 L%. 4. if;-71 'Fb 4.00 MEMO TO Bill Laws, Acting County Manager • FROM: Jim Polatty, Planning Director DATE: September 3, 1981 SUBJECT: Proposed Inspections Fee Schedule Please find enclosed the proposed Building Inspections Fee Schedule. There are four alternative fee schedules. Each is based on a different basis for achiev*ig a self sufficient building inspection division. The overall policy upon which these four alternatives are based is to achieve a self sufficient inspection division, defined as the total revenues generated from the fee schedule equaling costs and expenditures. • Tables I and II of the calcualtion sheet show the revenues and expenses were close to even from 1977 to 1980. In the last fiscal year, there was about a $35,500 deficit with the existing fee schedule. A $39,500 deficit is estimated for fiscal year 1981 using the present fee schedula, Table III shows that 1977-1979 were high activity years in building construction (> 400 permits) which were the years the inspection division was approximately self sufficient. On the other hand 1980 had a much lower activity, leading to the $35,500 deficit, 1981 is estimated to be a low activity year with about a $39,500 deficit. Planning staff counted the actual number of inspection trips in calendar years 1979 and 1980. Based on this data, Table IV shows the cost of each inspection trip using calendar year trip data (from Table III) and total inspection cost data (from Table II) . Alternative I is based upon each trip costing and earning $20.00. Alternative II is also based upon each trip costing and earning $25.00. Alternative III is set at $30.00 and Alternative IV is $40.00, The first policy the Board of Commissioners should make is whether to continue their policy of self sufficiency nor the Inspections Division, Next, the Board of Commissioners needs to decide what time frame to use in making the division self sufficient, Alternative I is based on high construction activity and would have to be in Place during a busy year. Alternative II is an average two years, one low volume and one high volume, Alternative III is designed for a low volume year, which we are projecting for this year, Alternative II has an advantage in that the increase in all fees is- calculated for two years. The oresent inspection fee schedule was adopted in 1375 and 1976 and to the best of my knowledge have not changed since then. •