CC - Agendas - City Council - REGULAR - 8/29/2006

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FIRE Development fees for fire are calculated using the incremental expansion approach. The components included in the fee consist of fire station land, buildings and support vehicles and equipment. All costs have been allocated to residential and nonresidential development and standards are calculated on a per capita basis for residential fees and square footage basis for nonresidential development. Average household size is used to determine the residential development fees while a per-1,000 square feet calculation is performed to determine nonresidential development fees. Fire call factors are shown in the table on the next page and were used to determine the residential and nonresidential service demands. Road related calls were omitted from this analysis because the destination of these trips is unknown. Residential and nonresidential use is 50%. The table on the next page lists the City's current inventory of fire stations, training facilities and fire's proportionate share of the communications center. City staff estimate similar downtown land to cost $871,200 per acre. Construction costs are estimated at $200 per square foot (based on a recently constructed Central Yavapai Fire Department station). The replacement value of the City's current fire facilities inventory totals $14,511,031. Since 50% of the fire building use is related to residential users, the value is adjusted accordingly. This value is divided by the current population resulting in a cost per person figure of$176.75 ($14,511,031 x 50% = $7,255,516/41,050 persons = $176.75). With the addition of new fire facilities to serve new growth, additional fire support vehicles and equipment will also be needed. The table on the next page lists the City's current inventory of fire support vehicles and equipment. These assets have a total value of $5,946,660. This results in a per person cost of $72.43 for fire support vehicles and equipment ($5,946,660 x 50% / 41,050 population =$72.43). The per capita household size of 2.11 is multiplied by the cost per person amounts for land, buildings and equipment to determine the residential fee. 2.11 x (176.75 + 72.43) = 525.77. The nonresidential fee is computed by apportioning 50% of the fire land, buildings and support vehicles and equipment to nonresidential use per 1,000 square feet. This value is then used to determine the fee of $618.42 for land and buildings and $253.43 for support vehicles and equipment per 1,000 square feet of nonresidential. ($14,511,031 x 50%) / (11,732,249/1,000) = $618.42 and (5,946,660 x 50%) / (11,732,249/1,000) = $253.43 or a total nonresidential fee of $871.85.