R-10403City Council Meeting 6-23-09
RESOLUTION NO. 10403 (CCS)
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
Santa Monica, California
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ESTABLISHING AN ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT TO FEES
AND AMENDING PRIOR RESOLUTIONS THAT ALLOW FOR THE ANNUAL
ADJUSTMENT TO FEES
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica has established a comprehensive schedule of
City fees, including user fees and permit fees; and
WHEREAS, the City's study of its fees demonstrates that in many instances the full
costs of City services charged to particular individuals are not being paid by those
individuals because the fees charged by the City for user fees or permits are often set
Tower than the actual full costs of the City to provide such services; and
WHEREAS, Santa Monica Municipal Code section 2.72.020 allows fees to be set
either by ordinance, by a resolution adopted by the City Council, or by any other means
authorized by law; and
WHEREAS, through the adoption of various resolutions the City Council has
established user fees or fees for services and in these resolutions the City Council has
provided for the annual adjustment of such fees; and
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WHEREAS, the City desires to preserve public resources by ensuring that the
annual adjustment to fees does not result in City fees being set lowerthan actual City costs
and expected City cost increases,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Commencing on July 1, 2009 and on July 1 of each fiscal year
thereafter, all fees, including user fees and permit fees, established by any resolution of
the City Council, that are subject to annual adjustment, shall be administratively revised
and increased annually by a factor equal to the difference in the Los Angeles-Anaheim-
Riverside Consumer Price Index for Wage Earners and Clerical Workers forthe twelve (12)
month period February through February of the prior fiscal year, except that any such
administrative revision shall not be less than any annual cost of living adjustment provided
to the employees of the City of Santa Monica through- Memorandums of Understanding
entered into between the City and the employees' bargaining representatives for the
comparable fiscal year, and in no event shall the annual administrative revision be less
than zero percent (0%).
SECTION 2. This Resolution amends Resolutions 9670 (CCS), 10361 (CCS),
10322 (CCS), 10142 (CCS), and 10372 (CCS) as well as any other resolution of the City
Council of the City of Santa Monica that sets forth and allows for an annual administrative
revision of City fees.
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SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
MAR HA ES M UTRIE
City ttorn
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Adopted and approved this 23rd day of June, 2009.
Ken Genser, Mayor
I, Maria Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Resolution No. 10403 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting of the Santa
Monica City Council held on the 23~d day of June, 2009, by the following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Bloom, Davis, Holbrook, McKeown
Mayor Genser, Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: Shriver
ATTEST:.
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Maria Stewart, Ci Clerk