DATE: January 8, 2019
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Les Wright, Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer
SUBJECT: Amendment to Master Schedule of Fees - Department of Agriculture, Second Hearing
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Conduct second hearing to amend the Fresno County Master Schedule of Fees, Charges and Recovered Costs Ordinance by amending subsection 3305 of Section 3300-Agriculture (Weights & Measures) and waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety.
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action would revise the Department of Agriculture's existing Master Schedule of Fees, Charges and Recovered Costs. AB 347 extends, until January 1, 2022, the authority for a county sealer to recover the costs related to the inspection and testing of weighing and measuring devices, increases the fee caps for the inspection of computing scales and establishes a phased-in fee increase for compressed natural gas (CNG) meters and liquefied natural gas (LNG) meters. The change to the inspection fee cap and the phased-in fee increases related to CNG and LNG meters require an amendment to the Fresno County Master Schedule of Fees (MSF), which requires approval by the Board of Supervisors. The Department would like to adopt the new fee maximums set by the State legislature in AB 347 by updating the MSF for 2019. The new fee caps allow Department to recover a bigger portion of program expenses associated with inspecting and testing of devices. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
The Board can choose not to approve the increases to the MSF and the Department would not receive additional revenue from providing mandated inspection services.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The recommended action will allow the Department to collect higher fees for the testing and inspection of selected weighing and measuring devices. The revenue increase is estimated to be $6,500 for 2019, $6,700 for 2020, and $7,000 for 2021. The increase in revenue will offset a portion of the costs of operati...
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