ITEM TITLE:
#23-75 - Naming Rates and Fees for Use of Facilities in the Valdez Harbors and Repealing Resolution No. 23-19 Formerly Naming Such Rates and Fees
SUBMITTED BY: Sarah Von Bargen, Harbormaster
FISCAL NOTES:
Expenditure Required: N/A
Unencumbered Balance: N/A
Funding Source: N/A
RECOMMENDATION:
Approve recommendation to City Council naming rates and fees for use of facilities in the Valdez Harbors and repeal Resolution No. 23-19 formerly naming such rates and fees.
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The Ports & Harbor Commission has reviewed the attached resolution with proposed increases and changes to the Harbors’ rates. The Commission and staff are now submitting to City Council for approval their final recommendations for rate increases for use of the facilities within the Valdez Harbors.
The following recommended changes for approval are as follows:
• Increase in both daily and monthly moorage rates (prepaid and billed)
• Increase to summer truck/trailer parking areas used for storage
• Adjustment of “failure to cancel lift” rate from $150.00 to one-half the regular lift rate for scheduled vessel
• Adjustment of “vessels without insurance” rate from additional $1.00 per foot to $2.00 per foot
• Increase of grid use rates for different sized vessels
• Increase of “after hours labor”
• Adjustment of verbiage for “accounts sent to collections” fee
PROJECTIONS:
Based on the proposed changes to the rates, the majority of any projected increase that may be seen will be in the daily and monthly transient rates and labor fees. All other increases will be variable based on use.
• Transient Prepaid Monthly Increase - $4,255
• Transient Billed Monthly Increase - $666
• Transient Prepaid Daily Increase - $2,994
• Transient Billed Daily Increase - $603
• Regular Labor Increase - $8,900
H-K Replacement Projected Increase (based on the addition of 16 slips, however will not affect the budget until 2025) - $20,987