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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 44-92-14 of the City Manager of the City of Eugene ESTABLISIIING A FEE FOR PROCESSING CHECKS RETURNED NON-SUFFICIENT FUNDS, OR ACCOUNT CLOSED The City Manager of the City of Eugene finds as follows: A. Under Section 2.515 of the Eugene Code, 1971, the Finance Officer has the responsibility to receive, receipt and safely keep all moneys belonging to the City. Many of the payments received by the City are in the form of a check, and on occasion checks are returned unpaid because of non-sufficient funds in the payor's account or the account has been closed. B. Secti on 2.020 of the Eugene Code, 1971, authorizes the City Manager of the City of Eugene to determine and set fees and charges to be imposed by the City for services, goods, use of municipal property, and licenses and permits. In accordance with the procedures set forth therein, on J an uary 4, 1993, I notified the Mayor and City Councilors that I intended to establish a fee of $20.00 to be charged for checks returned to the City unpaid because of non- sufficient funds in the payor's account or the account has been closed, as set forth in the Notice of Intended Fee attached as Exhibit A thereto and incorporated therein by reference. The Notice was also posted at two locations at City Hall on January 4, 1993, and made available for interested persons at the offices of the City's Administrative Services Director, Aster Building, Eugene, Oregon 97401. The Notice provided that written comments would be received thereon for a period of 15 days from the first date of posting. No written comments were received within the time provided in the Notice. C. I find that the fee of $20.00 is consistent with applicable policies and directives of the City Council, the amount charged by businesses for such checks, and is necessary to recover the costs incurred by the City in reprocessing such checks and securing payment thereon. On the basis of these findings, I order that: 1. A fee in the amount of $20.00 is hereby established to be charged to the payor for a check returned to the City unpaid because of non-sufficient funds in the payor's account or the account has been closed. 2. The fee as established herein shall be applicable as of February 1, 1993. '1~. Dated this~l day of January, 1993.