Agenda 09-03-19 Item 8-a - Minutes

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27 1 Commissioner Dorosin referred to the Solid waste fee — page 495— and asked if the 2 programs fee is going up form $132 to $142 to make it a self-sustaining enterprise fee. 3 Bonnie Hammersley said not exactly. She said it is on the step to removing a structural 4 deficit. She said even if she had recommended funds from the general fund, this would have 5 been the same fee. She said she hopes expenditures can be controlled going forward so that a 6 contribution from the general fund will not be needed. 7 Commissioner Dorosin asked if the value of the $10 increase could be identified. 8 Bonnie Hammersley said there are 64,000 parcels, which will yield $900,000. 9 Commissioner Dorosin asked if the Board does not approve this fee, would it have to 10 increase property tax. 11 Bonnie Hammersley said yes. 12 Commissioner Price asked if the other listed fees could be clarified. 13 Kurt Vaughn, Budget Analyst, said these fees were already scheduled for the schools, 14 and, as a part of making them an enterprise fund, they wanted to expand the applicability of 15 these fees to cover County properties as well as commercial opportunities. 16 Bonnie Hammersley said one of the concerns was that they do a lot of work for County 17 properties, and the solid waste fund has never been paid for this service, because the general 18 fund was paying for part of solid waste. She said now that there is no general fund, Solid Waste 19 can charge for service to the County buildings. She said it is not a large amount of money. 20 Commissioner Price referred to page 447, and asked if there is a reason why the special 21 event/vending fee is being raised by $10 per booth, as well as the picnic shelters and farmer's 22 market pavilion. She said residents use these facilities for family events, and these increases 23 will be significant for some people. 24 David Stancil said every couple of years staff does market studies, and the County is 25 well below other markets for these fees. He said there are also costs that occur for 26 maintenance, etc. 27 Commissioner Price asked if the increases could be done in $5 increments. 28 David Stancil said it is at the pleasure of the Board's. 29 Commissioner Dorosin said he would like to have a conversation next year about fees 30 versus property tax, because fees are regressive, and property taxes are progressive. 31 32 A motion was made by Commissioner Price, seconded by Commissioner McKee to 33 (pages 447-48 in budget book) reduce the $10 fee to $5 increments 34 35 Page 448 36 Farmers market: $15 half and $30 all day (for residents) 37 Special events vending: $20 per day (for residents) 38 Picnic shelter: okay as is (for residents) 39 40 David Stancil said any increase will cover more than the current fees are covering, and 41 reiterated that these increases came about as a result of a market analysis and the County's 42 costs. 43 Commissioner Price said she does not mind increasing the fees but she would just like 44 the jump in increase to not be so large all at once. 45 46 VOTE: Ayes, 5 (Chair Rich, Commissioner Marcoplos, Commissioner Greene, 47 Commissioner Price and Commissioner McKee); Nays, 2 (Commissioner Dorosin and 48 Commissioner Bedford) 49 Commissioner Price referred to page 458, and asked if the storm water management 50 plan review/conservation area document review could be explained, and if staff is not currently 51 doing these.