April 2023

Fees Going Up!

Seven Sonoma County departments are requesting increases in fees covering a wide range of government services.  Some of the increases would involve airport parking, environmental reviews and cannabis inspection.  The departments have proposed adjustments to 867 fees.  The majority are in the county’s permitting department.  The department is requesting updates to 563 fees.  The new fees would not take effect until July after budget workshops in April and formal hearings in June.

A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end

up with neither equality nor freedom.                 Milton and Rose Freidman