All council members are present.

Thank you.

Toby?

Okay, good afternoon.

Uh, we're back uh here this afternoon to talk about the comprehensive fee schedule.

So this is an annual exercise of the city council.

This is probably the easiest it's ever been for me and you to look at our fee schedule.

So typically the fee schedule, um, I mean, which is what almost a hundred pages or more.

I can't remember how thick that publication is.

But usually we'll propose a number of changes.

This year we're not proposing any changes to building zoning, planning.

So in the past, if we've proposed a one or two percent increase to those rates, it would change you know, dozens and dozens of pages of the comprehensive fee schedule.

We're not looking at changing uh hardly any fees this year, which um again we're doing the exercise of looking at them, and each department looked at all of their fees to see if there was anything missing from the C fee schedule or anything that needed to be added.

And so what you'll see here, and what Robert and Mark and I will talk about are just a few pretty simple modifications to the fee schedule.

And uh so the first one um that Debbie and I had talked about is just on the in your packet, which is on page shows page 41 of the comprehensive fee schedule.

It just says budget 25 dollars.

That's just if someone asks for a hard copy, printed copy of the budget.

We had annual adopted budget, but we're finding some people who ask for a budget tentative budget or preliminary budget, the things we give you um, which are all online for anybody to use on their own personal device, but if someone wants to come in and get any one of those, it's quite a copying job for the clerk's office to do, and we believe that just removing that anytime anybody asks for a hard copy of the budget, they should pay for it.

Now we do provide a copy in the back of the room when we do budget meetings.

I think you also put one at City Hall, is that correct?

Yes, there's also one downstairs for public view, and we keep it down there all the time.

And then when we actually have the meetings, I'll bring it here and we'll put it in the back as well.

But I think the the office, the clerk's office in the past, you know, sort of as a courtesy would you know, make some copies for people, and that's just a little a little too much.

And if uh a number of people come in and start asking for hard copies of budget books, that can get very expensive and very time consuming.

And um, so we believe that if you're gonna come in and ask for any budget, you should have to you know pay that.

And again, we make it very convenient for people to get a free copy at the city hall, a free copy in here, and all it's always online.

The same thing that you get is online.

Okay, so the next page, which would show up as page 35 of the fee schedule.

Um the only change there is the Gary Keith Park Pavilion.

And so uh we have all of our fees, and these are four really private rentals.

As you know, we don't charge for our nonprofits for the 15 years that I've been the city manager, not a one nonprofit is ever paid to rent our parks ever.

So if Rotary or Kawanis or any group wants to use the Gary Keith Park pavilion, they would uh be able to seek the uh waiver of all the fees.

So this would be if someone wants to rent it and have a private event or event where they have a jazz festival and charge $25 to come into their event, whatever they may seek to do to um to reserve uh the pavilion for private use.

So we looked at uh that facility, and that was the recommendation of Dave Heath uh for the pavilion.

Again, private, no nonprofit will pay anything as they don't for any of our utilizations.

Any questions or concerns on that?

Toby, I've got one quick question.

When you do rent out the park, say Gary Keith Park, are there signs posted around uh that's for private use only uh to keep the public from coming into the park?

It's very rare that we do that, but I'll give you a couple examples.

Um we might have a company that rents a portion of a park for a company picnic.

It's kind of their responsibility to keep their area cordoned off with some sort of signification that this is a private party.

Um, the recent football tournament that was here, uh, they actually put fence private fence up around the entirety of the football field that they rented.

We've seen that from other promoters when they're um having events.

Uh you'll see that this Thursday, Friday, Saturday for the Tournament of Champions, which is a city school district event, you won't be able to get in without paying, and everything is cordoned off, if you will.

So let's just say you wanted to rent Gary Keith Park out and have a jazz festival.

You would have to, as the promoter figure out how you're doing that.

It might be by wristbands that you're kind of trusting people, or you might actually put up a fence.

Not the city doesn't take responsibility for that.

We let the promoters or the event organizers take care of that.

Thank you very much.

City manager, uh the pavilion is the new amphitheater by the by the school.

Correct.

And if I rented it for a whole day to have my own concert, it'd be a thousand bucks.

Correct.

It's kind of light, ain't it?

It's a it's a tough, it's a tough one to answer.

We believe that almost all the rentals will be by nonprofits for charity events, Cornfest type events.

But yeah, I mean, think of the event you may have there.

Um typically, you know, from what we've seen, that would be a fair price.

Now, if we see a lot of utilization and people are like, oh, that's too cheap, we might want to come back and reconsider that.