Resolution No. 2026-XXX
RESOLUTION NO. 2026-XXX
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA ESTABLISHING A UNIFORM SCHEDULE OF
MISCELLANEOUS FEES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026-2027
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: The City Council hereby finds, determines, and declares as follows:
A. Each year, for the convenience of the publi c, the City Council gathers in a single document a comprehensive listing of fees and service charges imposed by the City upon those persons seeking services of value from the City.
B. This document is known as the “Miscellaneous F ee Schedule” for Fiscal Year 2026-2027 and is on file at the City Clerk’s office, and incorporated by this reference.
C. As part of approving the Miscellaneous Fee Schedule for Fiscal Year 2026- 2027, the various agencies of the City have analyzed the cost to administer the various programs, activities, and applications for which the City imposes fees or service charges.
D. On an annual basis, fees and related services associated with the Miscellaneous Fee Resolution are reviewed and adjusted to reflect the City’s costs in delivering the services. As of December 2025, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) is 3.59% for the Los Angeles- Long Beach-Anaheim area. The City Council finds that the cost of providing the services set forth in the Miscellaneous Fee Schedule for FY 2025-2026 must increase by 4% for the FY 2026-2027 Miscellaneous Fee Schedule to reflect the compensation increase for City staff providing the services.
E. In some circumstances, agencies have determined that a fee should be deleted; new charges should be added or modified; or existing charges raised. Such charges are listed in the “Deleted Miscellaneous Fees, ‘New Miscellaneous Fees’ and ‘Modify Existing Fees’, attached to the staff report submitted for this matter and made a part hereof by this reference.
F. To provide a single, comprehensive document for Fiscal Year 2026 -2027, the majority of fees that rem ain unchanged have simply been reprinted in the Miscellaneous Fee Schedule. The Council expressly states that it does not intend to repeal previously adopted fees and adopt new fees of exactly the same amount. It is simply repeating these fees so that the EXHIBIT 4
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Miscellaneous Fee Schedule can continue to be a comprehensive source of City fees and service charges.
G. In each of these cases, the Council finds, determines, and declares that such new or increased charges, fees, or service charges do not exceed the City’s estimated reasonable cost to provide the pertinent service, process the specified application, or administer the certain program for which the charge, fee, or service charge is imposed.
H. Based on the testimony, reports, and other evidence submitted in this matter, the City Council makes the above-specified findings.
Section 2: The Miscellaneous Fee Schedule for Fiscal Year 202 6-2027 is hereby adopted. Each fee or service charge set forth shall be levied until further resolution of this Council.
Section 3: To the extent that any fee or service charge established pursuant to City Resolution No. 2025-026 is inconsistent with the fees or service charges established pursuant to this Resolution, then said Resolution No. 2025-026 is hereby repealed.
Section 4 : If any charge, fee, service charge, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this Resolution is, for any reason, held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Resolution. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed and adopted this Resolution and each and every provision hereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more provisions may be declared invalid.
Section 5: This Resolution shall be operative from and after July 1, 2026.
[Signatures on the following page]
Resolution No. 2026-XXX
ADOPTED this 2nd day of June, 2026.
_______________________
Valerie Amezcua
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:________________________
Jonathan T. Martinez
Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers _______________________________________
NOES: Councilmembers _______________________________________
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers _______________________________________
NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers _______________________________________
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CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, JENNIFER L. HALL, City Clerk, do hereby attest to and certify the attached Resolution No. 2026-XXX to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana on June 2, 2026.
Date: ________________ ____________________________________ City Clerk
City of Santa Ana