After hours of questions about development-agreement and resubmittal fees — and concerns that some charges could affect affordable housing projects — Moab City Council approved an update to the planning and zoning master fee schedule and directed staff to return with recommended changes to the fee appeals process by January.

Staff presented a package of fee amendments across departments, estimating roughly $100,000 in additional revenue from parking and proposing increases to annual resident passes, monthly secured-structure passes and other permit fees; the committee voted to forward the package to a public hearing on Nov. 3.

Development Services presented a time‑based fee model driven by House Bill 803 that would shift permit costs onto small homeowners. Commissioners pulled related resolutions and continued the companion ordinance to Nov. 17 for further legal and policy review.

Planner Brandon Berry presented the first reading of an ordinance revising planning and zoning fees — including higher variance and site‑plan fees — and commissioners approved first reading with direction to staff to develop tiered fees or small‑business exemptions for hardship variances and common conditional uses.

Director Pearson denied Britney Broadbent’s request to waive a $568.75 fee for DCFS processing of narrowed email and message records, finding the estimate substantiated and the denial of the waiver reasonable; the director allowed a separate appeal on outstanding text‑message fees.

Staff recommended adjusting landfill leachate fees to make the program sustainable; board members debated an implementation schedule (staff proposed Jan. 1, 2028; a commissioner urged phased-in earlier adoption) and then approved the change.

Staff presented a fee ordinance aimed at new development that raises some tap and inspection charges (examples cited included a 5/8" meter line item shown as $2,800 and a typical new-residential total estimated at $6,320); staff emphasized the changes do not increase existing customers' water rates.

The council adopted recommendations to accept national skills exams for shorthand reporters, create registration and training for digital court recorders with human monitoring, pilot digital recording in courts, and require courts to publish court‑reporter fee schedules online for transparency.

Staff's 2025 investment-fee analysis showed $84.1 million in management, incentive and operating costs (about a 1.5% total fee ratio). Private strategies were the largest fee driver; staff said negotiated savings of roughly $19.1 million were realized in 2025.

After staff explained state limits on residential solar permit fees and residents and contractors raised objections, the board voted to table a proposal to reinstate and expand planning and fire charges for ground‑mount residential solar until after the county’s master fee study.

Lebanon City Council scheduled consolidated public hearings for Oct. 7 to take public input on proposed ordinance changes affecting airport landing/hangar/tie‑down fees (manager recommends CPI‑U Northeast indexing), landfill tipping fee structure, phased public utilities fee changes (water +3%, sewer +5%), cemetery fee adjustments, and excavation permit fees; councilors requested benchmarking data before the hearings.

Engineering staff briefed council on state-required consolidation of erosion and stormwater programs into a Virginia Erosion and Stormwater Management Program (VEMP), a draft repeal-and-replace of town code, and a state-set fee schedule that staff said will increase many fees by 40 60%.

Staff summarized amendments to the department’s fee schedules: many schedules were not raised across the board, two new schedules lower some fees (construction stormwater, sand and gravel), and proposed regulatory changes include updating the definition linked to delivery prohibition (6‑15‑O‑2) and the underground storage tank regulation fee.

A consultant presented recommended changes to St. Pete Beach parks and recreation fees, proposing to keep modest resident inflation indexing while raising nonresident and contractor-set fees, consolidating swim‑lane rentals, adding an event fee, and projecting cost recovery to rise from about 29% to about 47%.

Finance staff outlined multiple fee and rate proposals — including a sightseeing franchise increase to 4.5%, a 3.5% utility rate adjustment, a 4.2% stormwater and solid-waste CPI adjustment, a 4.92% fire-assessment proposal, and short-term rental permit fees raised to a $315.51 base with $82.85 per bedroom — and commissioners asked for combined-impact figures before final decisions.

Facing July 1 changes under House Bill 803, county building staff asked the commission to adopt a new fee schedule based on actual inspection costs, transfer building capital-reserve funds to finish an ongoing project, and implement the law’s $7,500 exemption process.

The Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee voted to report HB 925 favorably as amended. Sponsor Rep. Tribulski said the bill raises statutory reimbursements to $195 and adds approved civil indigency applications to requests; an adopted amendment removed redirects to general revenue and addressed fee-waiver language.

Commissioners analyze mobility fees in context of rising costs and neighboring county rates.

Council adopts grace period for vacation rental fees while discussing potential ordinance amendments.

District staff proposed modest changes to student, activity and parking fees phased across 2026–27 and 2029–30 to align with neighboring districts; board members raised concerns about economic hardship, the five‑year review cycle and transparency of fee bases. Final action is scheduled for March 4.

Legal counsel told the commission it may extend continuing-education (CE) deadlines or waive the CE requirement for hardship (medical or military), but statutory late fees are generally not subject to appeal; the commission voted to table individual waiver requests until a written legal opinion clarifies practice.

Senate Bill 2668 would limit compensation for individuals who help veterans pursue benefit claims, capping fees at the lesser of five times the monthly increase or $12,500 and requiring payment only after the veteran receives benefits; the committee adopted amendment language and reported the bill.

Anita Haines requests cancellation of landfill fees for up to 20 nonprofits in 2024