Twin Falls Looking to Fill Positions for Development Committee

TWIN FALL, Idaho (Press Release)-The Development Impact Fee & Improvement Reimbursement Committee is currently seeking volunteers for two vacancies. The committee meets twice a year - usually in April and in October - at 12 p.m. in the Twin Falls City Council Chambers located at 305 Third Ave. East.

The vacancies must be filled by members actively engaged in the profession of community development. Please submit a letter of interest with qualifications and contact information to tvitek@tfid.org SUBJECT: Impact Fee/Reimbursement Committee or fax it to 736-641 or mail it to P.O. Box 1907 Twin Falls, ID 83303 by March 28, 2016

The Committee is responsible for advising the Twin Falls City Council and staff on updates to land use assumptions, capital improvements plans and development impact fees. As well as filing periodic reports, at least annually, with respect to the capital improvements plan and report to the governmental entity with any perceived inequities in implementing the plan or imposing the development impact fees.

Other responsibilities include the following:

- Monitor and evaluate implementation of the capital improvements plan
- Review the capital improvements plan and proposed amendments and file written comments
- Administer the council approved resolution for the amounts, methods and procedures for reimbursement of costs to private initial developers who installed public works improvement(s) by any subsequent developer or property owner that connects to those systems.
- With the assistance of the city engineer, prepare and maintain a system to track any public works improvement(s) that are subject to reimbursement.
- Accept requests for reimbursement, to include actual receipted costs and plans, from the initial developers that have installed the public works improvement(s), to be paid back by subsequent developers or property owners.
- With the assistance of the city engineer, establish the boundaries of properties that will be required to reimburse the initial developer that installed the public works improvement(s), and notify the owners of those properties of the requirement to reimburse when their own properties develop.
- Using cost information from the developer that installed the public works improvement(s) or other approved method, determine the proper compensation that any developer or property owner that connects to the public works improvement(s) will pay.
- Verify that the reimbursement has been made to the initial developer that installed the public works improvement(s) by any subsequent developer or property owner that connects to those systems, before allowing any subsequent development or property owner to connect to those systems.