ON THE AGENDA Here are some of...

ON THE AGENDA

Here are some of the issues the council will consider tonight.

DEVELOPER TRAFFIC FEES

The council will conduct its annual review of the fee developers

pay to offset traffic to their projects. These fees fund

transportation and circulation improvements necessitated by new

development and are required to comply with Measure M.

The council has reviewed the fee program every year since it was

first adopted in 1993.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Staff members and an ad hoc committee recommend continuing the

current fee of $177 per average daily trip to and from a development.

They also recommend that next year’s fee be adjusted to reflect

issues such as the completion of major freeway improvement projects.

FRANCHISE FEE

The council will consider a law changing the city code by adding a

solid waste-hauling franchise fee. In July, council members confirmed

their desire to put this fee in place. A franchise fee is a fee paid

to a city from a franchise operator for “rental” of the use of city

streets and rights-of-way. Revenue generated through this fee can be

used for any purpose.

Staff members are proposing a nonexclusive franchise fee, which

would allow trash haulers to set their own rates without any controls

by the city. This will preserve the free-market system and enable

comparing if waste-hauler rates in the city are lower or higher than

other communities with franchise fees, staff members say.

If the law is approved on its first reading Monday, a meeting will

be held with the waste haulers, and the council will consider a

resolution covering details such as the exact amount of the fee.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Staff members recommend approving the law because revenue from the

fee will help bridge the budgetary spending gap.

FAIRVIEW PARK CONSIDERATION

Councilwoman Libby Cowan will ask her colleagues to consider

referring three issues to the Parks and Recreation Commission about

Fairview Park: reconsideration of the installation of a lower parking

lot, licensing of model glider pilots and smoking restrictions.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Council members will consider Cowan’s request.

-- Compiled by Deirdre Newman