The Board of Supervisors Tuesday authorized the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health to conduct a fee study to determine the amount that the agency can hike its rates for a range of services before the start of fiscal year 2025-26.
Environmental Health Director Jeff Johnson submitted the request to the board, seeking approval of the study to lay the groundwork for a proposed “revision” to the county’s environmental health fees ordinance, which the board unanimously approved without comment.
Johnson last came before the board to alter the fee structure in June. At that time, his adjustments were based on an internal cost assessment, not exclusively the consumer price index for the region, which the Department of Environmental Health had used in the past…