(A) The City Manager is hereby delegated the authority and directed to provide documents to the City Council to implement its herein enumerated policy to adjust fees and charges to recover the percentage of costs reasonably borne as established hereby, in providing the regulation, product or service enumerated in this chapter in the percentage of cost reasonably borne and on the schedule of rate review and revision, as hereinafter established in this chapter.
(B) The City Manager is hereby delegated the authority to issue executive orders defining terms, setting out administrative, fee collection and financial procedures, definitions and establishing effective dates of all fees set by the City Council by resolution. All executive orders shall be originated and signed by the affected department head, shall be signed by the Finance Director certifying that the financial requirements of this chapter are complied with and shall be signed by the City Manager connoting the effective date of the executive order and new or revised rate structure, procedure or definition.
(C) “Costs reasonably borne” shall be as defined in § 1.64.030. In adjusting fees and charges, the City Manager shall act in an administrative and ministerial capacity and shall consider only the standards and criteria established by this chapter and the procedures set hereby and by applicable state law. All executive orders issued hereunder shall comply in all respects with this chapter, and the several schedules of fees and rates as set by the City Council by resolution.
(1995 Code, § 1.64.020)