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Yuba County Water Agency officials are trying to block a state plan that would increase their dam inspection fee by more than $200,000. Agency Director Don Schrader said he was in Sacramento on Tuesday, walking the halls of the Legislature to meet lawmakers and urge them to kill the plan. "What the state has decided to do is to make up for what they are losing in taxes with fees," Schrader said. Currently, the agency pays the state about $15,000 in inspection fees for Bullards Bar Reservoir. The Division of Safety of Dams performs the inspections. Under the new plan, according to Schrader, the revised fee could reach $250,000. "Meeting with some of the legislators and staffs, they seem to think this is the solution to California's problems, to simply add fees to all of the bodies they could charge fees to and we'll pay the fees and it will solve the state's problems," Schrader said. The Water Agency can't pass the increase on to its member districts or anyone else, Schrader said. The agency would have to take the money out of funds reserved for flood control projects or from the account that's supposed to pay for the relicensing of Bullards Bar in 2016, he said. "How do they justify those increases when fees have to be based on services?" he asked. "The state will have a tremendous problem justifying a $250,000 fee." Schrader said he wasn't sure where the proposal is in the Legislature. |
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