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The simplest sub- permit fee is insulation with a standard 530. 06 fee . Roof permit fees . on the other hand . are based on roof square footage . For electric , plumbing , and mechanical permits , however . fees are based on the amount and type of equipment and fixtures . Consequently , determining electric , plumbing , and mechanical permit fees requires more building counter staff time , and requires more information , some of which the general/residential contractor may not have . Without changing the current building permit fee schedule , the combo permit process would be inefficient. That inefficiency derived would occur because the fee for the combo permit would be by calculating the fees for each sub- permit. summing those fees , and then addin . that amount to the building permit fee to obtain the combo permit fee amount . In order to ensure that the combo permit system will be simple , efficient, and less time consuming. for applicants and staff, county staff and Treasure Coast Builders Association officials identified building permit fee alternatives and drafted the changes reflected in the attached draft resolution . As proposed, the building permit fee changes are revenue neutral . Consequently , aggregate fees for a project should be essentially the same as they are now, and there should be no increase or decrease in building permit fee revenue from instituting the attached fee schedule changes . ALTERNATIVES : With the objective of developing a simple, easy-to-administer combo permit fee , staff and TCBA officials identified and evaluated several combo permit fee alternatives . These alternatives were : using the present fee schedule, developing a square footage based fee. or creating a valuation/square footage based fee . These alternatives are discussed below . ` • Use Present Fee Schedule Using the existing fee schedule for combo permits reduces some of the efficiencies which the combo permit process creates . Because the existing fee schedule requires that electric , plumbing , and mechanical fixtures/components be compiled to calculate those permit fee amounts , use of the existing fee schedule would require that applicants and staff spend considerable time determining fee amounts . For that reason, it was decided not to use the existing fee schedule . • Square Footage Based Fee One simple and efficient way to set combo permit fees is to establish asquare footage based fee . From an administrative perspective, this is desirable . Applying a single rate to a proposed unit ' s square footage would be a simple, effective, and efficient wav to calculate the combo permit fee . To develop a square footage based combo permit fee rate, staff and TCBA officials analyzed a number of recently issued building permits . That analysis involved adding the building and sub- permit fees together to obtain a total permit fee for each project and then dividing each project ' s total permit fee by the proposed unit ' s square footage to obtain a fee amount per square foot for each project in the sample . JUNE 199 2001 uil i U 10 - 77 -