Resolution 2024-018 RESOLUTION#2024-018
A RESOLUTION OF THE IMMOKALEE FIRE CONTROL DISTRICT OF COLLIER COUNTY
FLORIDA,ADOPTING THE FINAL IMPACT FEE RATES FOR THE IMMOKALEE FIRE
CONTROL DISTRICT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, impact fees are a funding mechanism that a local government may utilize to pay
for public improvements that are necessary to serve new growth; and
WHEREAS, impact fees must satisfy a dual rational nexus test to be constitutional; and
WHEREAS,the dual rational nexus test requires a local government to show a reasonable
nexus between the local government's need for additional capital facilities and the new
construction and that a special benefit is conferred upon the fee payers; and
WHEREAS, Subsection 6 of chapter 2001-330, Laws of Florida, authorizes the Immokalee
Fire Control District to assess impact fees for capital improvements on new construction within
its boundaries; and
WHEREAS,the calculation of impact fee rates assessed effective for the 2024-2025 fiscal
year was based upon the most recent and localized data, as evidenced by the Immokalee Fire
Control District Update Study Final Report dated July 12, 2023 and approved by the Boad of Fire
Commissioners on July 20, 2023; and
WHEREAS,as required by Section 163.31801(4)(b), Florida Statutes,the accounting of the
impact fee revenues are provided for and reported in a separate and segregated special revenue
fund entitled Impact Fee Fund; and
WHEREAS,the impact fees adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the lmmokalee
Fire Control and Rescue District for the 2024-2025 fiscal year are imposed in compliance with
Section 163.31801, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, the final impact fee rates adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners were
adopted at a Public Meeting held on September 17, 2024;
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE
IMMOKALEE FIRE CONTROL DISTRICT of Collier County Florida, that the final charges for impact
fees of$0.94 per square foot of defined living area for residential development and $0.60 per
square foot of useable area for commercial and industrial structures as defined in Subsection 6
of Chapter 2001-330, Laws of Florida, are adopted in the Immokalee Fire Control District to be
used for capital improvements that are necessary to serve new growth in accordance with Florida
law. No reduction in the assessed impact fee charged in authorized.
This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
The foregoing resolution was offered by Commissioner k.L:A- 4 t`\(J-."._ ,
who moved its adoption.
The motion was seconded by Commissioner -0 CA c , and the
Vote was as follows:
Commissioner Joseph Brister
Commissioner Robert Halman
Commissioner Donald Gunthner
Commissioner Bonnie Keen (7C ;2,.n
Commissioner Patricia Anne Goodnight 4
Duly passed and adopted on this 17th day of September, 2024.
Board of Commissioners of the Immokalee Fire Control District
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Josep rist , Cir
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