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MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor and Council September 14th, 1979
FROM: Finance Committee

The Finance Committee met on Thursday, September 13th, 1979 and
discussed the following items.
1, Charges for Building Permits

The Treasurer has done a review of our Building Permit fee structure.
Up until this year, our permit fees included the $800, per unit special
inspection fee and this made our permits very high compared to other municipalities...
Now that this fee has been transferred to the Development Cost Charge By-law,
our basic permit fees are quite a bit lower than other municipalities.

The Treasurer has suggested a simplified form of fee schedule and
the existing and proposed schedules are as follows.

Existing: (a) Value of Conscruceton Yerwit tse Favebis '
mr 200.00 secccccccarccescces 3e0O ‘ . .
. 201.00 = $00.00 ., tee .
$91.00 - 1,090.00 .
2,001.00 ~ 2,000.00 a
2,001.00 = 3,000.00 . :
3,001.00 = &,00U.00
#,001.00 5,000.00
$,091,00 = 6,000.00
6,001.06 - 7,000.00
- 7,001.90 = 3,000.00
8,001.09 - 9,030.00
9,001.60 ~ 10,090.00 |
40,001,039 = 11,000.60
81,601.00 = 12,000.60 . :
42,001.03 = 13,000.00 .
43,002.00 = 16,000.00 2.0... Loot,
. 16,032.09 © 15,000.00 ccccaccserscesevece 43.00 .
.* plus $1.50 addietonal fer exch additional $1,000.00 ef value. :
Proposed: ,
. Value cf Construction Permit Fee
$s $
. 0 - 1,000 7.50
1,001 - 5,000 15.00
5,001 - 10,000 25.00
10,001 ~ 100,000 20.00 + 3.50 per 1,000.
100,001 ~ and up 200.00 + 2.00 per 1,000.

The proposed schedule does not increase fees greatly in the lower
categories therefore permits for alterations and minor construction would
not change too much in cost. Permits for Single family dwellings, i.e. in the

$40-50,000. range would nearly double in cost and in the higher ranges, the
increases would be less severe.

The Treasurer has prepared a schedule applying these proposed rates
to various values of building permits and compared this with charges in other
municipalities. This schedule is attached and you will see that the proposed

rates compare favourably with the charges in other municipalities and they are
not, in any way, out of line.

The Finance Committee recommends that the By-law be amended to
incorporate the new rates,