In its last meeting of the year, the Ceres City Council accepted the annual report on development impact fees for Fiscal Year 2023-24 as required by state law.
The state of California requires an annual accounting of the fees to be made available to the public within 180 days of the city’s fiscal year end.
Development impact fee are paid by developers to defray all or a portion of the cost of public facilities caused by their development. Cities and counties that collect and utilize Development Impact Fees are required to provide the following information regarding each fund or account established for the collection of impact fees: • A brief description of the type of fee in the fund;
• The amount of the fee;
• The beginning and ending balance of the account or fund;
• The amount of fees collected and the interest earned;
• An identification of each public improvement on which fees were expended and the amount of the expenditures on each improvement;
• An identification of an approximate date by which the construction of the public improvement will commence if the public agency determines that sufficient funds have been collected to complete financing of an incomplete public improvement;
• A description of each interfund transfer or loan made from the fund, including the public improvement on which the transferred or loaned fees will be expended, and, in the case of an interfund loan, the date on which the loan will be repaid, and the rate of interest that the account or fund will receive on the loan; and,
• The amount of refunds made of unexpended fees or allocations made.
If the funds have not been spent, the city must provide an explanation of which projects they are earmarked for and the approximate dates of completion.
City Engineer Michael Beltran gave the council a list of funds unspent for five years or more after they were collected:
In the General Government category, $162,393.93 remains for Corp yard facility improvements, a transit center parking structure, and transit center to be completed beyond Fiscal Year (FY) 2028. In addition there are fees totaling $577,732 for those projects in Planned Community portion of fees.
The balance designated as Public Works fees is $1,559,525, earmarked for corporation yard facility improvements.
Fees paid to help fund police facilities total $263,931.
The city has $557,905 committed to be spent on the Fire Training Facility to be completed beyond FY 2028.
The five-year remaining unexpended balance for Neighborhood Parks is $413,525, set aside for the completion of Lions Park to be completed beyond FY 2028.
Fees of $4,737,689 collected for the sewer main line fund, are designated for the Crows Landing Road Rehabilitation project to be completed beyond FY 2026; wastewater treatment plant tertiary improvements, the North Ceres Pump Station and Force Main, and other projects.
The five-year remaining unexpended balance for Water Supply Extension is $5,017,864, which is for the Hatch Road water main phase 2 to be completed beyond FY 2026; the third phase of the Hatch Road water main to be completed beyond FY 2027; replacement of three wells (14, 23 and 32), expansion of the surface water plant, pump station expansion at Ceres River Bluff Regional Park Station, a million gallon storage tank and pump station, and the surface water system’s south transmission main line to be completed beyond FY 2028.
The council approved the report 5-0. It was the last vote for Vice Mayor Bret Silveira who was replaced by Cerina Otero following the Nov. 5 election.
