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Application Fees $275 fee and $1,000 escrow Fees The application fees pay for administrative staff time related to the assembly and distribution of the application materials, administration of internal and public meetings, publication of the public hearing notice in the Elk River Star News, and for postage to mail the required notices to adjacent properties. These fees do not include professional staff review time, recording fees, or additional fees that may occur. Escrow The escrow is used to pay consultants/attorneys for review of land use cases, hours applied to an application by professional staff, as well as recording and additional fees, where required. Staff hours may include time spent on review, site visits, documentation, presentations, meetings, and all inspections. Professional staff services are billed at $75 per hour. If the escrow is used in its entirety, the responsible party indicated in Billing Information will be billed monthly for additional services (see Agreement to Pay Costs of Review). Remaining balances will be refunded to the party that posted the escrow. Agreement to Pay Costs of Review It is the policy of the City of Elk River to require the party indicated in Billing Information for land use approvals and licenses to reimburse the city for costs incurred by the city in reviewing and acting upon applications, so that these costs are not borne by the taxpayers of the city. These costs include all of the city's out-of-pocket costs for expenses, including the city's costs for review of the application by the city's environmental consultant, city engineer, planning staff, city attorney, or other consultants; recording fees, and necessary publication costs excluding public hearing notices. Additionally, these costs do include actual time spent by professional staff on a particular application. If payment is not received with the application, the city may return the application for failure to comply with the requirements for processing the application or may suspend the application review process. The city will invoice the party indicated in Billing Information for costs incurred after the escrow is depleted, and payment will be due within thirty (30) days. Payment for costs will be required whether the application is granted or denied and unpaid fees may be assessed to property taxes, with penalty. The undersigned has received the above policy regarding the payment of costs of review, understands that reimbursement to the city of costs incurred in reviewing the application will be required as set forth in the policy, agrees to reimburse the city as required in the policy, and make payment when billed by the city. Billing Information Same as Appllcantg] Some as Properly Owner ❑ Differea4 as below ❑ (Check one) Name: Address: Phone: E-mail address: @ Street City State Zip Code Signature: ` Date: Public Information Except for personal information, all forms of correspondence to and from staff, consultants, city attorney, and public officials are considered public information. Page 2 (Last Modified 7/21/2022)