Speaker 0: Thank you very much. We do have one hearing, so let's go ahead and begin that hearing, please. It's on the master fee schedule.
Speaker 2: Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution amending the master fee and charges schedule citywide.
Speaker 0: Thank you. There's a motion any second on this already. Let me turn this over to Mr. Modica.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We can give a short staff report from Grace Yoon, our budget manager.
Speaker 8: Great. Thank you, Tom. Good evening, Mayor. And members of the City Council. City Council's approval is being requested to amend the Fy22 master fees and charges schedule. This is something that's updated citywide at least twice a year to allow departments to meet City Council's stated policy on user fees, which calls for full.
Speaker 2: Cost recovery whenever appropriate.
Speaker 8: City Council last approved an amended master fees and charges schedule on September 7th as part of the Fy22 budget adoption. So this report, the changes to the master fees and charges schedule includes adjustments across six departments, with changes based on the completed cost of service study.
Speaker 2: For Energy Resources and Public Works.
Speaker 8: Department, which were presented to City Council on February 1st of this year. In addition to those changes related to the cost of services study, proposed fee changes also include other department fee recommendations necessary for administrative and operational purposes.
Speaker 2: So that concludes my report.
Speaker 8: And Department Representative representatives are available to answer any specific questions you may have on proposed changes.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Do we have a public comment and we'll come back to the diets, please.
Speaker 2: There's one public comment. Dave Shukla. Dave Shukla. He's not in the audience.
Speaker 0: I don't see public comment. We to go and go back to the dais. Councilman Mongo.
Speaker 7: I just want to take a moment to recognize the staff at financial management. It has taken a long time for us to get to a place where we know and understand our fees in a meaningful way. I know it took many years. I do want to ask specifics on an animal control licensing fee for about four years now. We've been asking that all of the licenses get coordinated through a process where you would be able to pay a partial year to catch up so that all your animals can be renewed at once, saving the department hundreds of dollars a year, if not definitely be thousands by now considering postage rates. Instead of mailing my house three animal dog license renewals at three different months of the year. You'd save a dollar by putting them all together. This has been three years in the making and I've heard excuses of, Well, we don't have a fee that works for that or we can't prorate. Do we have any progress towards that? Do we need to add a fee to the schedule or do we need to make any annotation at this time that we'd like to be able to prorate and ensure that entering into the fiscal year of 2020. Three. No. Yes. 2023. That that would be policy.
Speaker 8: Yeah. We have our director.
Speaker 2: Of Parks, Recreation and Marine.
Speaker 8: Who can come up and talk on that. Parks, Recreation and Marine was part of the round one fee study for our citywide fee study. So that may have also been something that was looked at during that.
Speaker 7: And I apologize. I know that this started before our current Parks and Rec director. We appreciate you. And we know you picked up a lot of projects and this is a big priority and I'll make sure it's done before the next fiscal year.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. I know Stacy Danes, who unfortunately is ill tonight, or she'd be able to probably answer this more specifically. But I know in our recent council briefing last month, we did discuss this in depth. And I know she is looking into that alignment, which makes a lot of sense. So we are working towards that. And I appreciate your bringing attention to this financial matter.
Speaker 7: Thank you. Mr. Monaco, do I have your assurances that this is something we can pursue before the next budget cycle? Or do I need to bring an agenda item?
Speaker 1: Sure, we'll work on it. I'll get this as an item you and I've talked about, and we're talking with the Parks and Rec director about what's the path forward and if you'll need to bring an item. If there's some other challenge that we need to tell you about, we will do that.
Speaker 7: Thank you. I appreciate it. I know it's a priority for animal lovers across the city and an opportunity for us to really find some cost savings and save the money for the department. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson, any comments?
Speaker 1: Okay. I'm good. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Okay. We have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes.
Speaker 2: Motion is carried.
Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule.  (Citywide)