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Regular Council Meeting December 12, 2022 Page 9 27. Discuss and act on an amendment to the Hangar Waiting List Policy to reduce the number of days a City owned T -hangar can remain vacant from 180 days to 90 days. Mr. Strahan said the current airport policy allowed a city owned T -hangar to be vacant without housing a plane for 180 days. Mr. Strahan explained that one of the ways the airport generates revenue is selling avgas and jet fuel and when T -hangars were vacant, potential fuel sales could be lost. Mayor Portugal said having been a previous Airport Advisory Board member and a Council liaison to the board, that she totally supported this amendment. A Motion to approve the amendment was made by Council Member Knox and seconded by Council Member Pankaj. Motion carried, 5 ayes — 0 nays. 28. Discuss and act on ORDINANCE NO. 2022-089: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, AMENDING APPENDIX A, "FEE SCHEDULE," OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT FEES; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, A SAVINGS CLAUSE, A PENALTY CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE r Mr. Mack said Building Official Duke McGee would be giving a presentation to Council about the amendment to the fee schedule. He said an increase was needed because of `staffing in part, and the increase of materials for water taps. Duke McGee said his presentation was mainly from a building department standpoint and one of the -90 als was to combine all of the development fees into one place. He explained that there was now an applicable fee associated with each permit because some of the permits that were issued had no fee at all. He said they had separated commercial from residential. Mayor Portugal inquired if the fees were comparable to other cities the size of Paris. Mr. McGee said they were because Paris was charging a flat fee where most cities had an additional fee for different parts of a permit. Mr. McGee also said the commercial fees were standard across the board throughout the United States because Paris uses the ICC. Council Member Knox said she noticed that the vacant building fee of $500.00 was included but the historic district vacant building registry reflected $250.00 and inquired as to why that was reduced. Mr. Mack said that was a typo and should read vacant residential historic district, and that staff would make the correction. Mr. McGee pointed out that would be Section 9.6.2 on the fee schedule. Council Member Pankaj said staff was doing a great job and the rates seemed fair. Council Member Knox said with the exception of the vacant residences in the Historic District because that was counterproductive of what they had been trying to do with rehabilitation of the neighborhoods. She said they were supposed to be protecting the Historic Districts from deteriorating. Council Member Pankaj suggested they go back and look at the fees for vacant residences in the Historic District. Mr. Path said they could do that. Council Member Knox said she very sensitive to the Historic District but that did not impact the work that staff had done on the fees and processes.