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RESOLUTION NO. 4558
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE
USER FEES.
The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that:
A. Article VII of Amendment IV to the Eugene Charter of 1976, adopted by the voters
of the City on November 5, 1996, provides:
A. Each hazardous substance user shall pay an annual fee to the City of Eugene,
sufficient to jointly cover the implementation of this Act, including expenses incurred by the
Eugene Public Library, Fire Marshal, City of Eugene and the Toxics Board.
B. In order that this Act be self-supporting through hazardous substance user
fees, the fee amounts shall be recommended annually by the Toxics Board and approved and
amended as necessary by the Eugene City Council.
C. All fees due under this Act shall be paid by May 1 of each calendar year.
D. The operational budget for implementing this Act prior to the first collection
of fees as set forth in Article VII shall be paid for out of City of Eugene general funds. The
operational budget thereafter shall be funded wholly by hazardous substance user fees.
B. Consistent with Article VII-D of Charter Amendment IV, City General Fund support
has been provided to the Toxics Right-to-Know Program from its inception through the period
ending June 30, 1998. In order for the program to become self-supporting, fees should be imposed
as provided in Article VII of Charter Amendment IV, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1998.
C. The fees hereinafter set forth can reasonably be expected to cover the expenses of the
program for the 1998-99 fiscal year. Issues surrounding a shortage or surplus of funds at the end of
the fiscal year will be addressed equitably for all participating hazardous substance users, in
accordance with generally accepted accounting procedures.
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE, a Municipal
Corporation of the State of Oregon, as follows:
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Section 1. The following fees are hereby established as the fees to be paid, on or before May
1, 1998, by hazardous substance users within the City of Eugene, as defined by Amendment IV to
the Eugene Charter of 1976:
$500 per hazardous substance user; plus
$16.28 per employee of each hazardous substance user. In the event that additional
hazard substance users are identified before individual fees are calculated, this figure
may be revised downward.
Section 2. The fees collected pursuant to this Resolution shall be used solely for the purpose
of operating the Toxics Right-to-Know Program created by Amendment IV to the Eugene Charter
of 1976 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, and ending June 30, 1999.
Section 3. The Council finds that these fees should be established on the basis of information
contained in materials balance reports, which are unavailable at this time. The Council therefore
recommends that: (a) the fee structure established by this resolution be adjusted, and the 1999 fees
be calculated, on the basis of information contained in materials balance reports submitted as of
April 1 , 1999; and (b) the 1999 fees include an adjustment based on a retrospective look at the 1998
fees.
The foregoing Resolution adopted the 16th day of March, 1998.
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