Towing rates resolution
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Regular item on the advantage.
Five minutes.
Yeah. We do that in five minutes or not.
Will you do your uh old business problem? You
want to do the there is an addendum item regular. We can do that one five minutes.
Oh you
think
we can get that? Which item
you're talking about now? So
Oh okay.
So this is a this is a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County establishing maximum rates which may be charged on the towing of vehicles or mobilization of vehicles on private property, removal of stor storage of wrecked or disabled vehicles from an accident scene, or for the removal of
The removal and storage of it in the event the owner or operator is incapacitated or unavailable, leaves procurement of record service to law enforcement at the scene, or otherwise does not consent to the removal of the vehicle, providing annual adjustment rates based on consumer price index providing for an effective date. On June 8th, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. brought to the board's attention that uh the fees allowed under resolution 07169 had not been revised in
some time. um and concerns of the two operators that are on the sheriff's and f FHP tow rotations had uh basically asked for an increase in value uh in um the class A wrecker uh service fees um at that time um Mr. Goldstein on my behalf Staff asked the board that if they were going to raise the Class A, that
they also asked staff to review Class B and Class C so that there wasn't a disparity between the different levels of tow that your resolution previously covered. Staff went and looked at surrounding jurisdictions. Um and we have prepared a resolution which is attached uh raising the rates consistent to a to a large extent with uh what Hillsboro County
is charging. The CLAT we did bump at Commissioner Fitzpatrick's request, we did Bumped the base rate for Class A records to 150, which is what the record operator had requested, based on some information that Hillsboro was currently reviewing their record record charges anyway. It is in the b board's purview uh whether or not to adopt such a
resolution or whether or not any other fees need to be adjusted, but this was our attempt to comply with uh what the board had requested on June 8th.
Okay. Any questions?
Mm-hmm.
Okay. Entertain a motion.
Motion to approve.
Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed like sign. Motion passed 4-0. Okay. At this time we're going to uh break for the no,
Mr. Chairman.
You got something