The City Clerk/Treasurer shall compile the invoices from the city third party consultants and, no less frequently than once every 90 days, shall submit a statement and the supporting invoices to the requesting party for payment. All third party consultant invoices to the city shall be segregated for specific land use matters for a requesting party. The requesting party shall pay the statement within 15 days. If the requesting party disputes the fees of the city’s third party consultants, the requesting party shall submit a written objection to the fees to the City Administrator within 15 days of the receipt of the statement from the City Clerk/Treasurer. Concurrent with submission of the objection to the fees, the requesting party must pay the disputed fees to the City Clerk/Treasurer with instructions to the City Clerk/Treasurer to place the disputed fees into a separate escrow account. The requesting party shall first meet with the City Administrator and the applicable city third party consultants in an attempt to informally resolve the dispute as to the fees. If the fee dispute is not resolved in this manner, the requesting party may have the matter heard by the City Council. If the fees dispute is not resolved to the satisfaction of the requesting party either informally or by the City Council, the requesting party may assert any appeal rights pursuant to M.S. §§ 462.361 and 462.353, Subd. 4(d), as they may be amended from time to time. The city shall not condition the approval of any requesting party’s proposed subdivision or development on an agreement to waive the right to challenge the validity of the fees set forth in this section.
(Ord. 160, passed 12-6-2004)