TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Onyx Jones, Interim Finance Director
Libby Bretthauer, Financial Services Manager
Emy-Rose Hanna, Revenue Services Supervisor
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of an Ordinance and Resolution to Establish a $17 Processing Fee to Support the City's Regulation of Businesses (No Budget Impact) (Interim Finance Director Jones).
A) INTRODUCE ORDINANCE NO. 25-0001
B) ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 25-0002
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council consider adopting Ordinance No. 25-0001 and Resolution No. 25-0002 to establish a processing fee to support the City's regulation of businesses.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The City is currently implementing a new business license software system that will streamline the application process for new business licenses and the annual renewal process with new online functionality. This new advanced system will cost $17 per processed account; therefore, a $17 Processing Fee is being proposed to recover the cost of the new system and regulatory functions of the program.
Should the City Council decide not to adopt the fee, a budget appropriation of $90,100 is needed from the Unreserved General Fund balance to cover the cost of business license software and related services obtained through Hinderliter de Llamas & Associates ("HDL").
BACKGROUND:
The City requires all businesses operating within its jurisdiction to maintain a business license. This serves two purposes: to regulate business activity, and to facilitate collection of the City's business license tax. The City incurs costs to pursue both purposes, however, the City does not currently have a fee to recover these program costs.
The City has been utilizing the "Eden" software through Tyler Technologies for business license processing since 2007. However, this software is no longer supported and is being phased out b...
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