A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Wednesday, May 30, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Brian S. McCarthy presided; Deputy City Clerk Judith Boileau recorded.
Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Judith Boileau; Alderman-at-Large David C. Tencza led in the Pledge
to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 14 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Ken Gidge and Alderman
Tom Lopez arrived after roll call at 7:02 p.m. and 7:03 p.m., respectively. Alderman-at-Large Brandon Michael
Laws was recorded absent.
PUBLIC HEARING
Amended, O-18-012
AMENDING THE FEE SCHEDULE OF THE CITY BUILDING REGULATIONS
As provided for in NRO 5-28, President McCarthy gave a brief explanation on Resolution
R-18-022 prior to hearing testimony from the public.
President McCarthy
The sole item on tonight’s agenda is a public hearing on amended ordinance 18-012 amending the fee
schedule of the City Building Regulations. To conduct the hearing | will turn the meeting over to the Chairman
of the Budget Committee but first | will invite the Deputy City Clerk to take her leave from us if she would like
to. | ask the Budget Clerk to take over.
Alderman O’Brien
Thank you.
Alderman Dowd
Let the record show that Alderman Gidge has arrived at 7:02. The Public Hearing is on the amended ordinance
O-18-012 amending the fee schedule of the City Building Regulations. Would Director Marchant and whoever
you would like to bring up come up so you can explain. Also, Alderman Lopez snuck in here at 7:03.
Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director
Good evening, thank you for having us. Sarah Marchant, Community Development Director and I'd like to
introduce Bill McKinney the Building Safety Manager. We are here before you with the update of the building
fee ordinance, it hasn’t been updated since 2007. We have had several discussions about this already and we
are happy to answer any questions you have. Itis pretty clear which fees are being proposed to be changed.
Alderman Dowd
Are there any questions relative to the ordinance that you would like to ask?
Alderman Tencza
If | could just ask generally how did you go about figuring the increases in cost. | am assuming, obviously, in
11 years the administrative costs go up but I’m not sure, did you use a guide or is this based on the amount of
time that the office puts into each application?
