(A) All fees and service charges are listed on the master fee schedule.
(B) The City Manager, Finance Director and each city department head, under the direction of the City Manager, shall review annually the fees and service charges listed on the master fee schedule, and provide an adjusted master fee schedule, by resolution, to the City Council for its consideration so as to recover the listed percentage of cost reasonably borne necessary to provide the listed regulation, product or service. In the alternative, the Council may elect, by resolution, to automatically adjust fees by percentage equal to the Consumer Price Index as published by the Department of Labor for the preceding 12 months. Any such automatic adjustments shall not apply to fees which are based on variable factors which themselves result in an automatic adjustment or those which are specifically indicated otherwise.
(C) (1) For all fees and charges for services and programs provided by the Recreation Parks Divisions of the City of Tulare, the City Council does hereby designate the Parks and Community Services Commission as the body which shall establish a list of all such fees and charges. The Recreation, Parks and Library Director shall review the fees and charges as frequently as deemed necessary and provide an adjusted fee or charge schedule to the Parks and Community Services Commission for its consideration and adoption, so as to recover the established percentage of cost reasonably borne necessary to provide the listed service or program. With regard to Parks and Recreation fees and charges, whenever in this chapter there is a reference to the City Council, it shall mean the Parks and Community Services Commission; and whenever there is a reference to the City Manager it shall mean the Recreation, Parks and Library Director.
(2) For all fees and charges for services and programs provided by the Library Department of the City of Tulare, the City Council does hereby designate the Library Board as the body which shall establish a list of all such fees and charges. The Library Director shall review the fees and charges as frequently as deemed necessary and provide an adjusted fee or charge schedule to the Library Board for its consideration and adoption, so as to recover the established percentage of cost reasonably borne necessary to provide the listed service or program. With regard to Library fees and charges, whenever in this chapter there is a reference to the City Council, it shall mean the Library Board; and whenever there is a reverence to the City Manager it shall mean the Library Director.
(D) All fees and charges set pursuant to this chapter and section shall take effect 60 days after the City Council adopts a resolution establishing the fee amount.
(E) The schedule of frequency of rate adjustments may be varied by the City Manager to adjust revenues sufficient to meet debt service coverage requirements of any bond, certificate or ordinance, resolution, indenture, contract or action under which securities have been issued by the city which contain any coverage factor requirement.
(F) The City Manager may vary the annually scheduled review if, in the judgment of the City Manager and a directly affected and requesting department head, gross inequity would be perpetrated by not revising the rate schedule. Any such rate revision which deviates from the annually scheduled review shall be reported to the City Council at its next succeeding meeting.
(G) The City Manager is further delegated the authority to round off, either upward or downward as he or she deems appropriate, to the nearest dollar, five or ten dollars, as may be appropriate in light of the magnitude of the fee, the actual fee or service charge to be imposed, after applying the appropriate percentage rate, for the sale of ease of administration, accounting and financial operations.
(1995 Code, § 1.64.040) (Ord. 2020-05, passed 6-2-2020; Ord. 10-04, passed 2-16-2010; Ord. 06-2029, passed - -2006; Ord. 03-1925, passed - -2003; Ord. 03-1915, passed - -2003; Ord. 01-1887, passed - -2001; Ord. 01-1873, passed - -2001;)