DATE: September 11, 2018
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: David Pomaville, Director, Department of Public Health
SUBJECT: Amendment to Master Schedule of Fees, Charges, and Recovered Costs
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Conduct second hearing and adopt Ordinance to amend the Fresno County Master Schedule of Fees, Charges, and Recovered Costs Section 900 - Environmental Health by adding subsection 951 and waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety.
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will amend the identified rates in Section 900 by adding subsection 951 to the Master Schedule of Fees (MSF), deleted from Section 2100 on July 10, 2018 with the intent to move to this section. The proposed amendment is an 8% increase. To allow for the eventual 90% cost recovery in Section 900, similar increases will be required in FYs 2019-20 and 2020-21, after which the Department of Public Health will conduct an annual fee study. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board may direct staff to use current fees or propose alternative fees, which may not recover 90% of costs in Environmental Health.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the adoption of the recommended rates. The rates will be used by the Department to recover direct and indirect costs for services performed at 90 % for Environmental Health with 10% difference covered by Health Realignment to ensure the continued protection to public health.
DISCUSSION:
On August 7, 2018, your Board conducted the first hearing on the recommended amendment to the MSF for Section 900 - Environmental Health to add subsection 951.
The recommended rates in Exhibit A consist of applicable direct and indirect salaries, benefits, services and supplies, including departmental and countywide overhead costs. Attachment A provides detail of the rates to be added to Section 900 for comparative purposes. Section 2110, the fee for the Body Art Monitoring Program, was appr...
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