PRESS RELEASE CITY OF MESA: 60-Day Notice of Proposed Fees + Charges... a clearly defined cost-recovery structure

City departments have the opportunity to evaluate their fees and charges and propose changes based on the use of services. 

1. Departments also evaluate whether fees and charges are consistent with the market rate or provide cost recovery of a program or service. 
2. The City Council will review and take action on the proposed text amendments, fees adjustments, and changes to the departmental updates listed below. 

To learn more about the proposed changes, please click the links below:

 

Notice of Proposed Fees –  

Administrative Updates, Arts and Culture, Business Services, Code Compliance, Development Services, Municipal Court, Office of Urban Transformation, and Transportation

April 2, 2026 at 6:51 am 

 

• Administrative Updates to Fees
• Arts and Culture Fees
• Business Services Fees
• City Clerk Fees
• Code Compliance Fees
• Development Services Fees
• Municipal Court Fees
• Office of Urban Transformation Fees
• Transportation Fees

In accordance with A.R.S. 9-499.15, this 60-day notice and report are posted regarding proposed Citywide Fees and Charges.

Fees and Charges Report
Date: March 5, 2026
To: Audit, Finance, and Enterprise Committee
Through: Michael Kennington, Deputy City Manager, Chief Financial Officer
From: Brian A. Ritschel, Office of Management & Budget Director
 

Subject: Citywide Administrative Updates to Schedule of Fees and Charges

Purpose and Recommendation
The Office of Management & Budget recommends administrative updates to various departmental
Fee & Charges schedules, including renaming a fee and moving fees between departments.

Background
The Office of Management & Budget gathers information from all departments on desired
updates to Fees & Charges Schedules on an annual basis. Departments recommend these
updates in their own report. 

There are several clean-up items/adjustments that need to be madethat the department would like to present as a whole for review.

 
Discussion
Departments that have minor updates to fee schedules, with no fiscal impact, include:
• Community Services – Animal Control Division (Exhibit A)

Copy the associated Animal Control fees from the Police Fee Schedule to the newly created Community Services Fee Schedule. Animal Control previously fell under Police,so its fees were listed in the Police Fee Schedule. It now operates under Community Services and provides services separate from Police.

• Business Services – Revenue Collection Operations (Exhibit B)
Move all Alarm Fines, Fees, and Assessments from the Police Fee Schedule to the
Business Services Fee Schedule, as Business Services has administered and charged
these fees for nearly a decade.

• Mesa Fire & Medical (Exhibit C)
Update the reference of ‘MVA’ to ‘911 Recording’ in ‘Fire Investigations, MVA, etc.’
under Photos/CD. Mesa Fire & Medical (MFMD) has never charged for MVA photos on
CDs, and this correction is necessary to accurately reflect the documents MFMD
provides.

 
• Mesa Police Department (Exhibit D)
Rename the Police Fee Schedule title, delete fee, and move fees under the appropriate1
departments.
o Rename the schedule from ‘Police, City Prosecutor’s Office & Animal Control
Division’ to just ‘Police’.
o Remove the Video Medium fee from the Police Fee Schedule. The 2024 addition
of the Police Video Recordings fee makes the existing Video Medium fee
obsolete.
o Remove the Alarm Fines, Fees, and Assessments from the Police Fee Schedule
and relocate to the Business Services Fee Schedule.

Alternatives
Taking no action will result in no fiscal impact, as the departments have been operating in this capacity.

Fiscal Impact
There is no fiscal impact to make these administrative updates and corrections to the applicable schedules.

Coordinated With
This report was coordinated with the Business Services, Community Services, Mesa Fire &
Medical, and Mesa Police Department

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• By Cecilia Chan, Tribune Managing Editor
• Mar 29, 2026

Pilots at Falcon Field Airport in northeast Mesa will start seeing higher charges such as for hangar rentals and ground leases and for the first time will pay a landing fee at the former WWII training site.

 

 

 

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