1 RESOLUTION NO. ___________
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE,
ESTABLISHING NEW FEES AND INCREASING, DECREASING AND
MODIFYING CERTAIN EXISTING FEES FOR VARIOUS SERVICES
PROVIDED BY THE CITY AND ADOPTING CHANGES TO THE
COMPREHENSIVE CITYWIDE FEE SCHEDULE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2026-27 WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Glendale has determined that in order to continue providing effective services for the public welfare, the City must establish and increase fees for certain municipal services in order to accurately reflect the City's true cost in providing such services; and
WHEREAS, the Council has also determined that (1) by consolidating fees, rates, charges, penalties, fines (collectively, “fees”), and tables and schedules― which have been previously adopted― into a comprehensive Citywide Fee Schedule, the consolidation will centralize fees, tables, and schedules in a single document which can be published on the City’s website and considered each year as part of the budgetary process; and that (2) this Citywide Fee Schedule consolidates most existing fees, tables, and schedules into a single document; and
WHEREAS, the Council desires to enact some new fees― and increase, decrease, remove, or leave unchanged existing fees― for certain services and programs provided by the City and to include the new, increased, decreased, or unchanged fees, and the tables and schedules, in a comprehensive Citywide Fee Schedule, as outlined in the FY 2026-27 Budget Adoption Staff Report, dated June 23, 2026, and as contained in the FY 2026-27 Proposed Citywide Fee Schedule (attached hereto), both of which are incorporated herein his reference; and
WHEREAS, the FY 2026-27 Proposed Citywide Fee Schedule contains:
1. Newly created fees for:
A. Filming Charges [Section 1 – Filming & Special Event Fees: #15-16 (page 5)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and B. Filming Charges [Section 2 – Filming Fees – Library, Arts & Culture:
## 3, 5-7, 10, 13, 15, 21, and 22 (pages 7-8)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
C. Library, Arts and Culture Department [Section 1 – Library Meeting Space Fees: ## 1, 14, 23, 25, 27, 34, 44-46 (pages 30-33)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
D. Library, Arts and Culture Development [Section 2 – Miscellaneous Library Fees: #14, 28-32 (page 35-37)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
2 E. Community Development Department [Section 4 – License/Permit Type Fees: #11 (page 86) and #60 (page 89)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
F. Community Development Department [Section 5 – Taxicabs and Vehicle For Hire Fees: ## 6, 11, and 14 (page 90), for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
G. Community Development Department [Section 6 – Administrative Citations: ## 18, 20, 43, 46, 87, 88, 136-140, 142-144, 173-176, 245- 246, 276, 379, 381, and 431 (pages 91-105)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
H. Community Development Department [Section 7 – Housing Fees: # 12 (page 109)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
I. Glendale Water & Power (GWP) Rates and Charges [Section 1 – Water Section Fees ## 36-39 (page 174), for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
2. Existing fees that are increased (readjusted to reflect the City’s reasonable costs) for:
A. Filming Charges [Section 1 – Filming & Special Event Fees: #4 (page 5)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and B. Filming Charges [Section 2 – Filming Fees – Library, Arts & Culture:
#1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, & 23 (pages 7-8)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
C. Public Works Department [Section 5 – Parking Fees: ## 2, 3, 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 39 (page 24-26)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
D. Library, Arts and Culture Department [Section 1 – Library Meeting Spaces Fees: #2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 24, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, and 39-43, (page 30-32)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
E. Library, Arts and Culture Department [Section 2 – Miscellaneous Library, Arts & Culture Fees: ##1-8, 10-11, 20-21, 26 (pages 35-37)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and F. Community Development Department [Section 3 – Neighborhood Services Fees: ## 3, 9-10, 13-14, 18, 20-24 (pages 83-84)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
G. Community Development Department [Section 4 – License/Permit Type Fees: ## 1-3, 9, 15, 22-23, 26-29, 32-33, 38-40, 42-43, 57-59 (pages 86-88)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
3 H. Community Development Department [Section 5 – Taxicabs and Vehicles For Hire Fees: # 12 (page 90), for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
I. Community Development Department [Section 6 – Administrative Citations: ## 1-17, 19, 21-42, 44-45, 47-86, 89-131, 266-275, 283, 292-293, 295-296, 317-320, 330-333, 380, 382 (pages 91-103)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
J. Community Development Department [Section 7 – Housing Fees: ## 1-2, 11, 13-17 (page 109)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
K. Police Department Fees [Section 1 – Miscellaneous Police Fees:
#11-12 (Page 139)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
L. Fire Department Fees [Section 1 – Miscellaneous Fire Fees: #161 (Page 164)], for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and M. Glendale Water & Power (GWP) Rates and Charges [Section 2 – Electric Section Fees # 3-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17-20, 22-26, 28-29, 31-32, 34-38, 40-44, 46-47, 49-50, 52-53, 55-56, 58-59, 61, and 64 (page 175-179), for any one or more purposes listed in Paragraph 3; and
3. Fees which are a charge imposed for any one or more of the following purposes:
A. A specific City benefit conferred or privilege granted (California Constitution, Article XIII C, §1 (e)(1));
B. A City service or product (California Constitution, Article XIII C, §1 (e)(2));
C. A charge imposed for City’s issuing licenses and permits, performing investigations, inspections, and audits, and administrative enforcement and adjudication (California Constitution, Article XIII C, § 1 (e)(3)); or
D. A monetary charge imposed by the City as a result of a violation of law (California Constitution, Article XIII C, § 1 (e)(5)); and WHEREAS, certain adjustments in the proposed Citywide Fee Schedule reflect adjustments previously made or authorized by Council resolution (refuse rates and CPI adjustments); and
WHEREAS, the cost analysis for any new or increased fees are contained in the Comprehensive Citywide User Fee Study Report attached as Exhibit 3 to the Budget Report and also contained in other exhibits to the Budget Report, all of which are incorporated into this Resolution by reference; and
4 WHEREAS, the departments have reviewed the fees charged for such services, and with the approval of the City Manager, recommend the adoption of certain fees.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE:
SECTION 1. Notice of the public meeting and public hearing at which this Resolution was considered was properly given, and all oral and written presentations made to and heard by the City Council were properly considered.
SECTION 2. The cost estimates produced by City staff and considered by the City Council in establishing or increasing fees under this Resolution are reasonable cost estimates for the provision of the City services to which the fees pertain and were made available to the public.
SECTION 3. There is a reasonable relationship between the fees to be collected for the provision of various City services and the City's costs in providing those services, as identified in the data made available.
SECTION 4. The fees which are newly established or increased as set forth in the FY 2026-27 Proposed Citywide Fee Schedule:
1. Do not exceed the actual or estimated reasonable costs to the City of providing the services to which the fees relate;
2. Are reasonable and necessary to enable the City to provide the benefit or privilege, service or product, license or permit, use or rental, fine or penalty, or property development to which they relate;
3. Have been allocated in a manner such that the costs to a payor bear a fair and reasonable relationship to the payor’s burden on, or benefits received, from the City; and
4. Are hereby approved as the official fees of the City of Glendale for the public services and violations referenced in that document.
SECTION 5. Any fee listed or described in the FY 2026-27 Proposed Citywide Fee Schedule as an “in lieu” fee that a payor chooses to pay, is paid in place of a Glendale Municipal Code obligation imposed by the City.
SECTION 6. The Council hereby approves and adopts:
1. The FY 2026-27 Proposed Citywide Fee Schedule which:
A. Consolidates existing fees, tables, and schedules; and B. Creates, increases, decreases, or removes some fees; and
2. Any rate, fee, or charge established in FY 2026-27 by a duly adopted resolution of the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Commission under the Commission’s authority granted in Glendale Municipal Code 5 Section 2.60.140, shall be incorporated into the FY 2026-27 Citywide Fee Schedule.
SECTION 7. Any fee, rate, charge, penalty, fine, table, or schedule contained in the FY 2026-27 Proposed Citywide Fee Schedule, as adopted in this Resolution, will prevail and apply in the event of a conflict with any other fee, rate, charge, penalty, fine, table, or schedule.
SECTION 8. The Council authorizes an annual increase of the fees imposed by this Resolution as of July 1 st of each year, in an amount equal to the increase from the base index in the then latest available Consumer Price Index (CPI), as prepared and released by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Statistics, for the Los Angeles- Riverside-Orange County area, without separate action by the City Council.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that newly created fees and increased fees listed in this Resolution and set forth in the FY 2026-27 Proposed Citywide Fee Schedule become effective on the thirtieth (30 th) day following adoption of this Resolution. Fees that are unchanged and certain decreased fees become effective July 1, 2026.
Adopted this ________ day of June, 2026.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF GLENDALE )
I, Suzie Abajian, Ph.D., City Clerk of the City of Glendale, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No._________ was adopted by the Council of the City of Glendale, California, at a regular meeting held on the_______ day of June, 2026, by the following vote:
Ayes:
Noes:
Absent:
Abstain:
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City Clerk