Cotati City Council
Agenda Staff Report
Item type: CONSENT CALENDAR (ACTION)
To: City Council
Subject: CONSIDERATION TO ADOPT RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT
THE FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 ANNUAL REPORT OF
DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE ACTIVITY (AB1600)
Date: September 9, 2025
Written by: Angela Courter, Director of Administrative Services Recommendation
It is recommended that the City Council adopt a resolution accepting the fiscal year 2024-25 annual reports of development impact fee activity.
Background
The City imposes fees to mitigate the impact of development pursuant to the Mitigation Fee Act, Government Code Section 66000 et seq. When collected, the fees are deposited into special accounts. One of the mandated accounting guidelines, as stated in Government Code Section 66006(a), provides that the City shall establish separate accounts for each type of improvement funded by development fees. The City maintains and accounts for the following development fees:
• Inclusionary Housing: These fees are used for providing affordable housing. • Park-in-Lieu: These fees are used to fund the design and construction of park and park improvements required to mitigate the impact of new development. • Traffic Impact: These fees are used to fund the design and construction of things such as streets and traffic light improvements as identified in the fee program to mitigate the impact of new development.
Analysis/Discussion
Each local agency is required, within 180 days after the last day of each fiscal year, to make available to the public the following information:
• A brief description of the type of fee in the accounts; and • The amount of fees collected and the interest earned; and • The beginning and ending balance of the accounts; and • Identification of each public improvement on which fees were expended; and • The amount of expenditure for each public facility or improvement made from the account during the year; and
• Other specified information as applicable.
Upon requests from any person, the City will provide a copy of this report. No requests have been made and as such the report was provided online. The City also posted a notice on its website of the availability of the development impact fee information pending acceptance from the Council. Upon adoption of the report by the City Council, the report will be revised to include the adopted resolution.
Exhibit A to the resolution includes tables showing the change in fund balance/working capital, revenues, and expenses for fiscal year 2024-25 as well as a description of each the development fee types, and a schedule of the development fees. No interfund transfers or loans were made from any of the identified accounts during this fiscal year. There were no refunds of development impact fees collected, pursuant to Government Code Section 66001(e), nor were there any allocations of unexpended revenues collected, pursuant to Government Code Section 66001(f).
Financial Considerations
Not applicable.
Environmental Issues
Approval of the resolution to accept the report of development fee impact activity is an administrative activity of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. As such, the action does not constitute a project as defined by California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5) and therefore, no further environmental review is required.