Revised Fees (36)

The division is requesting to revise 29 Yolo Central Landfill fees and 7 Esparto Transfer Station fees on the Master Fee schedule.

Yolo Central Landfill

Under Construction and Demolition fees, three of the revisions were decreased on the Master Fee schedule.
 

Fee Title	% Charge	$ Decrease
Electronic Waste - Non-Residential - Auto	-38%	-15.00
Electronic Waste - Non-Residential - Full Size pickups, full-size vans & small trailers less than 3 feet in height and less than 8 feet long	-38%	-85.00
Electronic Waste - Non-Residential - Mini pick-ups and minivans less than 3 feet high and 8 feet long	-40%	-60.00
Electronic Waste - Non-residential - One Garbage can, 60 gallons or less (maximum 2 cans per visit)	-25%	-5.00
Electronic Waste - Solar Panels	-39%	-14.48

The “Minimum Fee – Non-Residential Electronic Waste” fee has been significantly reduced from $150/each to $90/each resulting in a 40% decrease. However, the “Miscellaneous-Engineering/Hydrogeologist Waste Analysis” fee increased from $125/hour to $150/hour, or 20%, due partially to the equity increases. The remaining amount of the increase is due to regular cost of living adjustments as the fee has not been updated since May 2012.

Various Organics, Waste and Tire fees have been adjusted to achieve full cost recovery.   The revisions are all small dollar amounts, however two of the fees reflect large percentages.

• The “Green and Food Waste” and “Green or Wood Waste” fees both increased by $2, or 3%.
• The “Green or Wood Waste – Auto” fee increased by $7 (from $5 to $12) resulting in 140% increase.
• The “Green or Wood Waste – One garbage can, 60 gallons or less (max 2 cans)” fee increased $2 (from $3 to $5) resulting in a 67% increase.
• The “Waste” fee increased by $2 (from $78 to $80), or 3%.
• The “Waste – Auto” fee also increased by $2 (from $10 to $12), however the fee percentage increase is 20%.
• The “Waste Requiring Special Handling – Biosolids” fee also increased by $2 (from $31 to $33), or 6%.
• The “Waste Requiring Special Handling – grits, rags, sewage & septic sludge” fee increased by $2 (from $78 to $80), or 3%.
• The Waste fee that saw a reduction was the “Waste – one garbage can, 60 gallons or less (max 2 cans)” fee reduced by $1 (from $6 to $5), or 17%.

Esparto Transfer Station

Under the Esparto Organics section, the “Green or Wood Waste – garbage can, 60 gallons or less (max 2 cans)” and “Green or Wood Waste - Auto” fees have significantly higher percentage increases (67% and 140% respectively); however, the dollar amount increase is low. The garbage can fee increased by $2/each and the auto fee increased by $7/each to achieve full cost recovery.

Additionally, under the Esparto Tires section, the “Tires – Auto” and the “Tire – Truck” fees also have significant percentage increases (29% and 33% respectively); however, the dollar amount for the Auto fee increased by $1 while the Truck fee increased by $2.

Under the Esparto Waste section, the “Waste – Auto” fee increased by 20% or $2.  The other two fees, “Waste – garbage can, 60 gallons or less (max 2 cans)” and “Waste – Vehicles and trailers up to 6 feet heigh and 10 feet long” were decreased. The garbage can fee was reduced by 17%, or $1 and the Waste-Vehicle/trailer fee was reduced by 10%, or $5.

The fees under the Yolo Central Landfill and the Esparto Transfer Station were calculated and adjusted based on the prior year actuals, operations contract, general expenditure increases including salary and benefits, various services and supplies Integrated Waste Management needs to conduct business.

Overall, the proposed fees for Integrated Waste Management will increase revenue for the next fiscal year by approximately $119,650. These increases were included in the FY23-24 Recommended Budget for the division.

Library

The Library department is adding a keycard fine and replacement fee for branches that lend out keycards for after-hours meeting room use.  For security reasons, the keycard will be deactivated at the meeting’s scheduled end time, but if it is not returned, Library staff will have to request a new keycard and pick it up from the General Services Department.  The fine and replacement fee of $50.00 is both to encourage the return of the keycards and to recover the cost of staff time and mileage to obtain a new keycard.

Additionally, the Library is removing its $1.00 per page fee for color printing off the internet and changing its fees for copying to include both copying and printing.  These services will be offered at the previously used copying rates of $0.50 per page for color pages and $0.20 per page for black and white pages.  This change will provide consistent pricing for customers who use the public copiers or print from the public computers at our various branches.

Sheriff

The Sheriff’s Office is requesting to update the current Master Fee schedule to adequately reflect the cost of providing copies of crime reports. While the number of requests has remained relatively stable, staff has seen an increase in the time needed to produce these reports. At present, a request could require many steps such as locating the report and associated report supplements, contacting the case detective, redacting any information that would jeopardize an ongoing investigation, creating the actual copy, and mailing the report to the recipient. While salary costs for staff necessary to produce these reports has increased since the last fee update, staff has indicated that the amount of redactions and report supplements has also increased.  Crime reports of 20 or fewer pages have increased from $5.00 to $15.00 per copy while Crime reports 20 or more pages in length are now $15.00 for the first 20 pages and 0.25 per page thereafter.

Adjustments to the unit description, deletion of a redundant per page crime report copy fee, and code justification has been updated within the Master Fee schedule. As a result of these updates, it is estimated that the Detention Section will realize an increase of $1,785 in revenue per year.