COM 0522.000 2002-2004 - Laserfiche WebLink

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Hawaii County Council Page 4 March I, 2004 • ADA Compliance for park facilities ($36M) • Police 800 (or 700) Mhz Communication System ($21M) • Alii Highway (County match of $15.8M) • Closure of the South Hilo Landfill ($12.65M) • West Hawaii County Building ($12M) • Regional Sort Station ($11.5M) Fair Share Contributions The CIP revision submittal in May will report on the fair share contributions pursuant to Hawaii County Code §2-162. The report will list the fair share contributions by applicant, rezoning ordinance number, nature and amount of the assessment, and status of collection. Fair share assessments are imposed for parks, police, fire, solid waste, and road. In developing the report (which is still underway), the Planning Department: • Reviewed all rezoning ordinances since 1991, the inception of the fair share assessment practice by the Council, to ascertain the fees owed; • Reviewed its records to verify the payments made, the in -lieu credits granted, and determined the disposition of the payments in coordination with the Department of Finance; • Developed a database and accounting system; • Developed a proposed procedure for appropriating fair share monies collected taking into consideration the following: where the Council identifies specific improvements in the ordinance to be provided by the developer and credited against the fair share assessment, the Planning Department will include these improvements in the Capital Budget or Program in order to better track the status of these improvements and ensure that they are built concurrent with the occupancy of the project; where cash is collected, the Planning Department will earmark the funds for an appropriated capital project, or include it in the Capital Budget or Program if the project has not yet been appropriated. By allocating the fair share assessments to a specific project through the CIP process, it ensures that the fair share payments do not languish in the accounts, are spent for appropriate projects in the vicinity of the contributing project, and are optimized as matching funds to leverage federal or state grants.