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APPENDIX A AMENDMENT (B)
Ordinance No. 0-06-20
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the City of Gainesville Code of Ordinances, relating to fees; amending section (5), Traffic and Motor Vehicles, Appendix A; restoring the criminal justice assessment to a $2 fee; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing a retroactive effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
The City Commission, at its meeting of June 27, 2005, authorized the City Attorney to draft and the Clerk of the Commission to advertise an ordinance to remove embedded fees from the text of the Code of Ordinances and place all fees in Appendix A. Additionally at the July 13, 2005 and August 15, 2005 budget workshops, the City Commission approved a fee increase of 5.0% and an ordinance was drafted and approved increasing all fees by 5%, rounded to the next quarter.
In that process, a statutorily allowed fee of $2.00, for criminal justice education degree programs and training courses, was inadvertently increased by 5%. This ordinance restores the fee to the statutory maximum ($2.00) and adds the statutory cross-reference for future use and reference. Since this action is merely corrective, this ordinance has an effective date of October 1, 2005.
This ordinance requires two readings. If approved on first reading the second and final reading will be January 23, 2006.