A. Committee created. A development impact fee advisory committee of the city council is established as a standing permanent committee.
B. Committee name. The standing permanent committee is known and shall continue to be known and designated as the "City of Cascade Development Impact Fee Advisory Standing Committee" (hereinafter in this section referred also as "advisory committee" or "committee").
C. Membership. The members on the committee shall be appointed by the city council for a term of three (3) years or until someone is appointed in his/her place, and there shall not be fewer than five (5) members of which two (2) or more members shall be active in the business of development, building or real estate and at least two (2) or more members shall not be active in the business of development, building or real estate. All members must reside within the City of Cascade. No members shall be employees or officials of the City of Cascade or a governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement to enact an impact fee ordinance.
1. Any vacancy occurring on the committee during the year shall be filled during the year, by appointment of the city council.
D. Charge. The advisory committee shall serve as an advisory committee to the city council and any governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement to enact an impact fee ordinance and is charged with the following responsibilities:
1. Assist the city and the Cascade Rural Fire Protection District in adopting land use assumptions; and
2. Review the capital improvements plan; and
3. Monitor and evaluate implementation of the capital improvements plan; and
4. File with the administrator and the city clerk, at least annually, with respect to the capital improvements plan a report of any perceived inequities in implementing the capital improvements plan or imposing development impact fees; and
5. Advise the city council, and any governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement, to enact an impact fee ordinance of the need to update or revise land use assumptions of the capital improvements plans; and
6. The city and any governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement to enact an impact fee ordinance shall make available to the joint advisory committee, upon request, all financial and accounting information, professional reports in relation to other development and implementation of land use assumptions, the capital improvements plans and of the need for periodic updates of the capital improvements plans.
E. Advisory committee organization. The impact fee administrator shall staff the advisory committee to provide the committee with needed information for the committee's review and to provide for its compliance with the Open Meeting Law (Chapter 2 of Title 74 Idaho Code).
1. The advisory committee shall select its officers, which include a chairman, vice chairman and a secretary of the committee.
2. The chairman shall conduct the meetings of the committee. The duties of the chairman shall be performed by the vice chairman in the absence of the chairman or as delegated by the chairman. The chairman and the vice chairman shall be members of the committee.
3. The impact fee administrator shall serve as the secretary of the committee and shall take minutes and post agenda notices required by the Open Meeting Law. The secretary is not a member of the committee.
4. The committee shall establish a regular meeting schedule.
5. The agenda of each meeting shall include the approval of the minutes of the last meeting and the secretary shall provide a copy of the approved minutes to the city council and any governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement to enact an impact fee ordinance.
6. Fifty (50) percent of the membership of the committee shall constitute a quorum. Once a quorum is established for a meeting, the subsequent absence of a member present for creating the quorum shall not dismiss the quorum.
7. A majority vote of those present at any meeting is sufficient to carry motions.
F. Reporting. The joint advisory committee reports directly to the city council, and the governing board of any governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement to enact an impact fee ordinance, depending upon whose capital improvements plan is the subject of the report.
G. City Council and any governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement to enact an impact fee ordinance Review of Committee's Reports and Recommendations. The city council and the governing board of any governmental entity with whom the city has an intergovernmental agreement to enact an impact fee ordinance shall each consider the advisory committee's recommended revision(s) at least once every twelve (12) months. The Advisory Committee's recommendations shall be intended to ensure that the benefits to a development paying impact fees are equitable, so that the impact fee charged to the development shall not exceed a proportionate share of system improvements costs, and that the procedures for administering impact fees remain efficient. (Ord. 723, 10-3-2022)