GARDEN GROVE : City to Drop Fee for Fire Inspections
A $50 fire-inspection fee for businesses will cease at the end of the year, the City Council has decided.
On a 4-1 vote, with Councilman Francis L. Frank Kessler dissenting, the council decided this week (Oct. 15)to drop the fee, which had become a political issue in the council election. The fee was originally enacted to raise $250,000 to defray the cost of the city’s fire-inspection program.
Bruce Broadwater, president of the Garden Grove Chamber of Commerce and a council candidate, called the fee outrageous and discriminatory. “You should take a hard look at how to finance the budget without socking it to the businesses,” he said.
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