Successes
Included below are some representative samples of our past successes in helping communities fund tomorrow.
December 10, 2020
Parcel Tax Success – Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority
The Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority was recently established as a necessary step to further prevent and protect Marin County from fires and related destruction. The Authority hired NBS for guidance, support and analysis for a new revenue measure. After review of many parameters and conditions, NBS structured a parcel tax…
April 20, 2017
Storm Drain Special Tax Creation – City of Culver City
Cities across California grapple with the increasing annual costs and efforts to address stormwater. As charging any type of utility fee for this effort is challenging, most cities choose to pay for this with dwindling general funds. Culver City decided to try another approach, a parcel tax. The increasing demands…
April 20, 2017
Landscape Maintenance District (LMD) Formation and Administration and Proposition 218 Compliance – City of Oxnard
The City of Oxnard has close to 100 Special Financing Districts (SFDs) across the city, serving a variety of neighborhood needs. Over time, the management of these districts have become difficult, resulting in problems for the City. The City needed a complete overhaul of its numerous landscape and other assessment…
April 20, 2017
Landscape Maintenance District and Community Facilities District Formation and Administration – Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District
The Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District serves a very large area in Riverside County. They provide many services for dozens of parks and other facilities over hundreds of square miles, reflecting many diverse communities, as well as new development areas. This undertaking requires support, expertise and continuous effort to bring…
April 20, 2017
Community Facilities District (CFD) Feasibility Study and Formation – City of Folsom
The City of Folsom is using CFD financing to fund a portion of the estimated $877 million backbone infrastructure and public facilities necessary to serve the Folsom Plan Area (“FPA”) at build-out, and needed support, experience and expertise to forge ahead.
April 20, 2017
Business Improvement District (BID) Expansion and Renewal – Yerba Buena Community Benefit District (CBD)
The Yerba Buena CBD, a property-based BID, is an integral part of San Francisco’s lively South of Market Area, known to many as SOMA. This area has gone through a dramatic transformation with significant increases in residents, hotel guests, office workers, museumgoers, diners and nightlife patrons. This is all in…
December 2, 2016
Water Rate Study – County of Sonoma, County Service Area 41
The County of Sonoma Board of Supervisors governs four water systems referred to as Zone of Benefit: Fitch Mountain, Freestone, Jenner and Salmon Creek. These various zones range in size from under 30 connections to just over 300 connections. Given recent challenges of the environment, both natural and legal, the…
December 2, 2016
User Fee Study – City of Fountain Valley
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 a full cost allocation plan and master fee update had not been performed for over a…
December 2, 2016
SFD Formation – City of Burlingame, Downtown Burlingame Avenue
Burlingame Avenue – Before Burlingame Avenue – After Burlingame Avenue – Before Burlingame Avenue – After Burlingame Avenue is a quaint yet vital downtown district on the San Francisco Peninsula, with local restaurants, boutiques, and well-known retail stores. Sales and values per square foot are very high. The Avenue had…
December 2, 2016
Sewer Rate and Capacity Fee Study – Sussex County, DE
Sussex County is located in the southern part of Delaware with a population of approximately 200,000. The County manages, operates and maintains 28 separate Sewer Districts, all with various service charges, assessments and connection fees. When we met with County stakeholders, this complex web of fees and charges was no…
December 2, 2016
Sewer and Storm Drain System Rate Study – City of Sausalito
The picturesque town of Sausalito on San Francisco Bay has a diverse community of long-time residents, newcomers, and a wide range of local and tourist-serving businesses. The City has also had sewer and storm drain challenges for a number of years. The most pressing problems involved evaluating a more defensible…
December 2, 2016
Fire Prevention Fee Study – Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District
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 California and, understandably, has a diverse set of fiscal challenges to manage. The District’s fee structures, as supported by…
December 2, 2016
Water, Sewer and Solid Waste Rate Study – City of Redding
Water, Sewer, Solid Waste Rate Study and Development Impact Fee Study – City of Redding, CA The City of Redding has a population of over 90,000 people and hundreds of businesses. Their basic services of water, sewer and trash were perhaps taken a bit for granted. For a number of…
December 2, 2016
Cost Allocation Plan – San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
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 cars, to taxi permits and parking tickets to ensuring “complete streets” are adopted throughout the City of…
December 2, 2016
Citywide User Fee Study and Revenue Options Analysis – Seaside
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 remain solvent. The drastic cuts had taken a toll on the community. For many years, the City felt…
September 26, 2016
Cost Allocation Plan – City of Carlsbad Fire Prevention Services
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 approximately 20 years.
June 3, 2016
SFD Formation – Los Carneros Water District
NBS formed a special assessment district for the Los Carneros Water District to finance much needed recycled water infrastructure. For years, the District had attempted to find solutions to dwindling water supplies. The option to bring recycled water from Napa Sanitation District eventually bubbled up to the top of the…
March 27, 2016
SFD Administration – Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area
NBS was retained by the County of Salt Lake to provide billing, mailing, collecting, and administrative functions for the establishment of the Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area (SLVLESA). The SLVLESA would cover more than 43,000 property owners and 2,000 businesses. Like many public agencies during this recession, the…
February 28, 2016
Cost Allocation Plan and Fee Study – Town of Ross
NBS conducted a Full Cost Allocation Plan and Comprehensive Fee Study for the Town of Ross, a wealthy enclave in Marin County, California. A study of this nature had not been performed in quite some time; a fact that was known by Town staff and council, and was regarded as…
November 30, 2015
SFD Administration – East Bay Park District
NBS provides administration services for the many special assessment and special tax districts encompassed by the East Bay Regional Park District. This Park District is one of the largest of its kind in the country. To add to the complexity, it also has some of the largest parcel count special…