A. An application fee to cover the expenses incurred by the city council in conducting the hearing for site approval requests for a new regional pollution control facility shall be paid by the applicant at the time the request for a siting approval is filed within the city clerk. The application fee shall be made payable to city and shall be paid to the city clerk's office.
(1) The application fee will cover notice costs, court reporter, and transcription costs and other direct expenses incurred by the city.
(2) The application fee for a regional pollution control facility site hearing shall be $20,000 and paid in the form of a certified or cashier's check upon acceptance of the completed application for filing of a siting application at a local financial institution acceptable to the city to cover reasonable and necessary costs, including but not limited to, notice costs, court reporter costs, transcription costs, city engineer costs, hearing officer's costs, and other reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the city in conducting the review of the request for the site location approval, the subsequent public hearing and the site location approval decision; provided, however, that any portion of the application fee that remains unexpended at the conclusion of the site location approval decision shall be returned to the applicant If the applicant, prior to completion of applicant's factual evidence and an opportunity for cross questioning by any party at the public hearing, the applicant files an amended application, no additional filing shall be required if at least $10,000 of the original application fee remains unused; if not, applicant must tender with the amended application sufficient funds to increase the unused fund to $10,000. When $20,000 balance is less than $5,000, the applicant shall within 15 days of written notice from the city of the account balance being less than $5,000 pay to the city a sufficient sum to raise the balance to $20,000.
(Ord. 93-16 § VI, 1992)