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bk:5/27/03 RESOLUTION NO. 2003- A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA MODIFYING FEES FOR ENTERPRISE ZONE VOUCHER APPLICATIONS, PARKING VIOLATIONS AND ZOO ADMISSION AND REPEALING IN PART RESOLUTION NO. 2008-041 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: The City Council hereby, finds, determines and declares as follows: A. The FY 2008-09 Miscellaneous Fee Schedule was established by the City Council by Resolution No. 2008-041. Various agencies of the City have continued to analyze the cost to administer the various programs, activities and applications for which the City charges, fees or service charges, and recommend certain modifications of this Resolution to adjust for increased costs to provide the programs, activities and services outlined herein. B. The City of Santa Ana has been designated as an Enterprise Zone ("EZ") by the State of California since 1993. The Santa Ana Enterprise Zone encompasses more than 7,100 acres of industrial and commercial land. Businesses located within the EZ qualify for certain tax incentives, including a significant Hiring Tax Credit. The Community Development Agency collects and processes Hiring Tax Credit voucher applications and the associated processing fee from the businesses and issues vouchers that can be used as tax deductions. In large part because of its active hiring tax voucher program, the City of Santa Ana has been recognized as the top Enterprise Zone performer in the state. C. The current $40 fee includes a $10 processing fee assessed by the State Department of Housing and Community Development. The EZ Hiring Tax Credit voucher application processing fee has remained the same since 2006. As costs to administer the voucher program have increased significantly during the past few years, staff recommends increasing the processing fee to $90 per application to recover eighty-five percent (85%) of the City's expenses in processing applications for tax credit vouchers. The proposed $90 application fee, which includes the $10 State processing fee, will place Santa Ana in the top twenty percent among other local Enterprise Zones that charge processing fees for the voucher program. D. The Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency has recommended that the Council increase the admission fees to the Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park by one dollar ($1.00). This modest increase will be used to help offset the costs of operating the Zoo. Recent new improvements, including the endangered 75A-7