DATE: April 23, 2019
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Jean M. Rousseau, County Administrative Officer
SUBJECT: Amendment to the Master Schedule of Fees for an Assessment Appeals Application Processing Fee
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Conduct a first hearing of a proposed Ordinance to amend the Fresno County Master Schedule of Fees, Charges and Recovered Costs Ordinance by adding Subsection 414 of Section 400 - Board of Supervisors, Application for Changed Assessment Processing Fee ($86); waive reading of the Ordinance in its entirety, and set second hearing for May 7, 2019;
2. Designate County Counsel to prepare a fair and adequate summary of the proposed Ordinance; and
3. Direct the Clerk of the Board to post and publish the required summary in accordance with Government Code Section 25124(b)(1).
REPORT
Approval of the recommended actions would revise the existing Master Schedule of Fees, Charges, and Recovered Costs to recover the costs of processing Applications for Charged Assessment to property tax (Assessment Appeals).
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board may choose not to implement an $86 fee to recover costs. If the fee is not implemented, the Clerk will continue to receive its allocation of SB2557 revenues, recovering only 25% of cost.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Currently, there is no fee to charge the property owners for the services provided by the Clerk and the Assessment Appeal Board for the filing of an Application for Changed Assessment. The Clerk does receive an allocation of Property Tax Administration Program (PTAP) revenues (SB2557) that provides only about 25% cost recovery ($9,214 for the Clerk). Charging an $86 fee would recover approximately 100% of costs ($37,324). The new revenues generated from the implementation of the proposed fee would potentially reduce or eliminate the $9,214 in SB2557 revenue transfers to the Clerk; however, it would still result in a net revenue increase of $28,110 based on the $86 fee times the number of...
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