Development Application User Fee Study Services

The Vendor is required to provide development application fee study is to develop updated rates and fees for development application services that reflect guiding principles of the town and are in compliance with relevant legislation.
- Requirement:
•    Meet with town staff to ensure a full understanding of the project expectations and schedule, review background information and confirm process, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities, etc.
•    Develop an activity-based costing model in excel that provides for full cost calculation of fees by services that:
o    Identifies direct costs based on legislative requirements, appropriate cost drivers and emerging best practices in other jurisdictions. 
o    Provides for an allocation methodology for linking indirect and capital costs to previously mapped direct costs (using identified allocation drivers). 
o    Incorporates the ability to forecast future revenues relative to anticipated expenditures to assess cost recovery. 
o    Is easy to use and provides for the ability to update from year to year to allow for additions, revisions or removal of direct or indirect costs and services, along with instructions on how to update.
•    Compare fees with those of municipalities (maximum of 10 to be identified) and prepare an average benchmarking rate for each. 
•    Identify and recommend new fees that comparators are charging that could implement.