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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem VIII-B-4 AGENDA BILL APPROVAL FORM Agenda Subject: Resolution No. 3818 Department: Planning I Attachments: Building Resolution No. 3818. Administrative Recommendation: Date: January 27,2005 Budget Impact: City Council adopt Resolution No. 3818. Background Summary: Several years ago, after the Building Division was relocated into the Community Development Department, staff asked the Council to authorize a 15% across-the-board increase in building permit fees. At that time, the fee structure was based upon the 1997 Uniform Building Code and had not been adjusted since that edition was published. Subsequently, the Council recently adopted a 0.79% across the board fee increase for 2005. Permit Center staff recently discovered that the fee increases approved by the Council had not been properly computed from the original increase and the problem was compounded by the recent increase. It turns out that the formula that should have been used is fairly complex. The fees are predicated upon a base fee for construction in a given cost range and a multiplier. Problems became evident when it was clear that permit fees in the preceding or lower cost range actually were costing slightly more than more expensive projects. The biggest problem is that the City was in actually undercharging for most permits. The proposed fee table corrects past errors and will result in fee rates in accordance with those already approved by the Council. City fees are now reviewed annually in a comprehensive manner and no further adjustments will be proposed until that process is undertaken next Fall. Staff recommends that the City Council approve Resolution No. 3818 to correct Building Permit Fee Schedules to levels previously approved by the Council. CC\RES 3818 L0207 -3 F4.3 Reviewed by Council & Committees: ~Arts Commission COUNCIL COMMITTE S: Airport ~ Finance Hearing Examiner Municipal Servo Human Services Planning & CD Park Board Public Works Planning Comm. Other ~Re~~~r~g by Departm~en~toDiViSions: Cemetery Mayor Finance Parks Fire Planning Legal Police Public Works Human Resources Action: Committee Approval: BYes BNO Council Approval: Yes No Call for Public Hearing _/_/- Referred to Until / / Tabled Until / / Councilmember: Cerino I Staff: Krauss Meeting Date: February 7, 2005 litem Number: VIII.BA RESOLUTION NO.3 8 1 8 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN, WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE CITY OF AUBURN FEE SCHEDULE FOR CITY OF AUBURN FEES FOR 2005, CORRECTING THE FEE SCHEDULE FOR BUILDING PERMITS WHEREAS, the City of Auburn is engaged in various municipal functions, and the City provides various public services, a number of which entail fees; and. WHEREAS, in order to provide for such fees, the City Council adopted its Ordinance No. 5707, providing for the initial fee schedule and authorizing amendments to it through Resolution; and WHEREAS, in the course of reviewing City fees, and in keeping with the City's policy of setting fees in amounts so as to cover City costs, it was deemed appropriate to revise and amend the fees for the City of Auburn, effective in 2005; and WHEREAS, When the City's fee schedule was most recently amended in Resolution No. 3797, it did not factor in the multiplier effect of some dependent fees, so that the resulting fees could be inconsistent among themselves, depending on the valuation of penmit activity; WHEREAS, it is appropriate to amend the fee schedyle to accommodate the inter-tie between fees that build on a set base, depending on increases in valuation. NOW THEREFORE, and pursuant to the authority granted in Ordinance No. 5707, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN, WASHINGTON, HEREBY RESOLVES as follows: ---------------..... Resolution No 3818 January 26, 2005 Page 1 Section 1. AMENDMENT TO CITY FEE SCHEDULE. Effective , 2005, the City of Auburn Fee Schedule is amended as set forth in the schedule attached hereto, marked as Exhibit "A" and incorporated herein by this reference. Other than the changes to the fee schedule for Table l-A BUILDING PERMIT FEES, as set forth in said Exhibit "A," all other fees on the City of Auburn Fee Schedule shall remain unchanged and in full force and effect. Section 2. GENERAL SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Resolution or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid, the remainder thereof or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected. Section 3. IMPLEMENTATION. The Mayor is hereby authorized to implement such administrative procedures as may be necessary to carry out the diredives of this legislation. Section 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. That this Resolution shall be in full force and effect upon passage and signatures hereon, and on ,2005. ,2005. PASSED this Day of CITY OF AUBURN PETER B. LEWIS, MAYOR ----------------- Resolution No 3818 January 26, 2005 Page 2 ATTEST: Danielle E. Daskam, City Clerk ----------------- Resolution No 3818 January 26, 2005 Page 3 EXHIBIT "A" CITY OF AUBURN FEE SCHEDULE FEES FOR CITY PERMITS AND ACTIONS C. Permit Fees (Resolution No. 3773) Building Permit Fees The fee for each International Building Code, International Residential Code, Washington State Energy Code or Washington State Indoor Air Quality Code building permit shall be as set forth in Table 1-A, below. TOTAL VALUATION FEE $1.00 to $500.00 $29.00 $50) .00 to $2,000.00 $29.00 for the first $500.00 plus $5.00 for each additional $100.00, or rraction thereof, to and including $2,000.00 $2,001.00 to $25,000.00 $83:OOlQf,QQ fortllc firsl$2,OOO.OO plus $17.00 for each additional $1,000.00, or fraction thereof, to and includin. $25 000.00 $25,001.00 to $50,000.00 ~95.00 for the first $25,000.00 plus $13.00 for each additional $1,000.00, or 1ìaction thereof, to and includin. $50,000.00 $50,001.00 to $100,000.00 ~820.00 for the first $50,000.00 plus $9.00 for each additional $1,000.00, or fraction thereof, to and includinR$lOO 000.00 $)00,001.00 to $500,000.00 ~1.270.00 for the first $100,000.00 plus $8.00 for each additional $1,000.00, or fraction I thereof to and inc1udin. $500 000.00 $500,001.00 to $),000,000.00 S~.470 00 fur the first $500,000.00 plus $7.00 for each additional $1,000.00, or ftaction I thereof to and including $1 000,000.00 $1,000,000.00 and up S~7.970.00 for the first $1,000,000.00 plus $5.00 for each additional $1..000.00 or fraction I thereof Otber Inspections and Fees; 1. Inspectiœs outside of nonnal businc:ss hours........,................................. ............. ....................................... ............ .......... S57.oo per houri (núnimum charge - two hours) 2. Reinspection fees assessed under provisions of Section 109.4.13 ..................................................................................... S57.00 per houri 3. Inspections for which no fee is specifically indicated .......................................................................................................$57.00 per hourI (minimum charge - one half hour) 4. Additional plan review required by changes, additions or revisions to plans .................................................................... $57.00 per hourI (minimum ciulrge - one half hour) 5. For use of outside coi1sultants for plan checking and inspections, or both ..................."............................................ ............Actual costsl Table I-A BUILDING PERMIT FEES lOr the total hourly cost to the junsdiction, whichever is the greatest. This cost shall include supervision, overhead, equipment, hourly wages and fHnge benefits of the emplOyees involved. . '2 Actual costs include administrative Md overhead coSts. Exhibit A, Resolution No. 3797 Page 1 of 4 .... ~._-...-,,_.- -_.~-_...._-----_..._------'"