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By Nicole Kissam and Sara Mares When development comes to town, or when it seems that funding is short to pay for services and facilities to serve new development, it is good to know about three [...]

By Nicole Kissam and Tim Seufert of NBS along with Scott Catlett, Finance Director and City Treasurer of City of Yorba Linda Part one provided an overview of fees applicable to fee studies, a [...]

By Nicole Kissam and Tim Seufert of NBS along with Scott Catlett, Finance Director and City Treasurer of City of Yorba Linda With ongoing economic constraints and changing work environments, it [...]

Effective cost recovery policies and procedures must come from an initial understanding of the true costs of providing services. Many local government agencies are aware that indirect [...]

Local agencies in California have the ability to charge a wide range of user and regulatory fees. Common examples of these include: Cities or fire districts have fire prevention programs and [...]

Fountain Valley is located in Orange County, California. With over 57,000 residents and a City budget of just under $100MM, the City has many demands. The most pressing of which was the fact that [...]

The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, “Metro Fire,” serves a population of over 727,000 in a 417 square mile service area. It is the 7th largest fire agency in the State of [...]

The SFMTA is a large and complex agency serving a very diverse set of objectives, from running a complicated mass transit system with buses, above and below ground trains, and the famous cable [...]

Seaside is a wonderful and diverse community, just across the bay from Monterey. It faced tremendous fiscal challenges over the past years and had to make drastic service and staffing cuts to [...]

NBS was retained by the City of Carlsbad to provide a user fee study for fire prevention services in the City. The City’s fire prevention fees had not been comprehensively reviewed in [...]