City of Fort Bragg, California
Wastewater Capacity Fees Report
Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2023
Prepared by City of Fort Bragg
For purpose of compliance with California Government Code Subsection 66013(d), the following information regarding Capacity Charges is presented in connection with the City’s Sewer Capacity Charge Fund:
A description of the charges deposited in the fund.
Capacity Fees - Capacity charges collected are used for the planning, design, construction, or support activities of facilities in existence when the charge is imposed or for new facilities to be constructed in the future that are of reasonable benefit to the person(s) being charged.
Per AB 602, which requires all new impact fees to have a nexus study before adoption, staff released a Request for Proposals (RFP) and hired a consultant in the fall of 2022 to perform this study. The Consultant L&T presented the Impact Fee Report to the City’s Finance and Administration Committee on June 14, 2023, and again on August 24, 2023. City Council met on October 23, 2023, to consider approval of water, sewer, and storm drain capacity fees and the draft recommendations in the report. The final report is scheduled to come to the City Council for adoption on February 12, 2024.
FY 2023:
(2) The beginning and ending balance of the fund and the interest earned from investment of moneys in the fund. See statement below. (3) The amount of charges collected in that fiscal year. See statement below.
Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance (4) An identification of all of the following:
Each public improvement on which charges were expended and the amount of the expenditure for each improvement, including the percentage of the total cost of the public improvement that was funded with those charges if more than one source of funding was used.
Each public improvement on which charges were expended that was completed during that fiscal year.
No fees were expended in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023.
Each public improvement is anticipated to be undertaken in the following fiscal year.
Sewer Collection System Condition Assessment (in current CIP) This is a planning document that assesses future sewer improvements system-wide.
The estimated cost is $750,000 and is scheduled to be undertaken in FY 2023-24. (5) A description of each interfund transfer or loan made from the capital facilities fund. The information provided, in the case of an interfund transfer, shall identify the public improvements on which the transferred moneys are, or will be, expended. The information, in the case of an interfund loan, shall include the date on which the loan will be repaid, and the rate of interest that the fund will receive on the loan.
No interfund transfers or loans were made during the fiscal year utilizing these funds. pg. 4
City of Fort Bragg, California
Wastewater Capacity Fees
Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2023