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Recommendation to Accept the Police and Fire Construction Impact Fee Annual Report. (Finance 10024051)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Police & Fire Impact Fee Fund (161) collects fees to support the debt service payments for the Police Building remodeling/construction that was done in the early 1990s. Since the collection of fees varies widely each year (no fees were collected in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-20 and $45,102 in fees were collected in FY 2020-21), no transfer was made to the Police Building Debt Service Fund in FY 2020-21. Based on the FY 2020-21 results, staff will propose to increase the transfer to the debt service fund as part of the mid-year FY 2021-22 budget update and reduce the transfer from the General Fund for debt service.
BACKGROUND
On March 21, 1990, the City Council adopted the Police and Fire Fee Ordinance, which established the City of Alameda's (City) Police and Fire Services Fee requirements as Section 27-2 of the Alameda Municipal Code and requires that this fee be imposed on all new construction. These fees serve to mitigate the impacts caused by new construction on Police and Fire facility demands. The original fee was 12 cents per square foot. In 1991, the fee was increased to 14 cents per square foot and in February 1995, it was increased to 15.5 cents per square foot.
DISCUSSION
Effective September 15, 2014, the Police and Fire Services Fee was eliminated and incorporated into the new Development Impact Fee (DIF) ordinance. However, the City continues to collect the Police and Fire Fees per the development agreement with TriPoint Homes since it was entered into prior to the establishment of the DIF. Collection and reporting of these fees will cease after the completion of the TriPoint Homes development agreement.
Under the Police and Fire Fee Ordinance, at the time of final inspection or date of the Certificate of Occupancy, whichever occurs first, the developer/builder...
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