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Session 1304, Minutes Page 2 May 3, 1982 with motor vehicle licenses, and that nearly 1,000 tickets were issued to cars with- out city stickers after the March 1 deadline for purchase. The number of automo- biles belonging to University City residents is not known, and with the help of Mr. Lieberman, the administration had just last week obtained the computer tape which contains every motor vehicle registration in St. Louis County. He said the City's computer programmer would be paid to make an alphabetical printout of every vehicle and owner in University City, and each would be checked to see if a city sticker had been issued. The City will then know how many vehicles are unlicensed, how much rev- enue is being missed, and how to go about collecting the revenue. Mayor Mooney asked if the state could not collect for the city sticker, at the same time a vehicle owner bought his state license, noting that it would be worth a small collection fee to insure that every vehicle has a city license. Mr. Lieberman said the.state would not do this, since not every city in the state required a city sticker. Mr. Ollen- dorff said University City was the first city in the state to get the list mentioned earlier, and he felt the state would not collect city license fees as a service any time in the near future. He thought that revenue from liquor licenses.and dog li- censes would remain about the same as this year. Brief discussion about dog licenses ensued, with Mrs. Thompson feeling that there would be fewer dogs on the street, and additional revenue could be realized if more dogs were licensed. However, Mr. Lie- berman said that most of the dogs picked up by the animal control officer already have a license. It was noted that the cost of an animal control officer far exceed- ed the revenue brought in by licenses. Mr. Ollendorff said he would try to get some additional information on this matter for Mrs. Thompson. Charges for City Services (page B-8). Revenue from recreation fees show estimated amounts for 1982-83 which reflect the effect for a full year of fees which were in- creased in the middle of last year. Responding to Mr. Schoomer, Mr. Ollendorff said the City contracted out concession stand services, receiving a percentage of the revenue. The amount is verified by checking with the state to see what is filed for sales tax purposes. Mrs. Metcalfe asked if the administration had looked into the recent court case having to do with fee increases. Mr. Ollendorff said the admin- istration believed that all of the City's fee increases were previously authorized by law and that there had been no increases not already authorized by the City's voters. For example, the City is authorized to charge fees up to the actual cost of the service, as in refuse collection. Mrs. Metcalfe asked for more information about University City's position on this matter, and also more about the court case and its possible repercussions. Mr. Ollendorff said he would-try to get that infor- mation, but that the County had previously authorized fee increases only adminis- tratively and not by ordinance, which is different than what has been done in Uni- versity City. He said City Attorney Dennis Kay had met with a number of other city attorneys and County Municipal League officials, and the general concensus was that increases in fees were legal if they were already authorized by ordinance. Mr. Ollendorff said the largest item in this category was refuse collection fees, with the budget calling for an increase of about 10%.• He distributed a breakdown of costs to councilmembers. It was estimated that the cost for 1982-83 will be $1,214,741, and based on that figure, it was recommended that refuse collection revenue will be about $1,056,000, or about 85% of the actual cost. Mr. Ollendorff said this large increase was mainly due to higher landfill and equipment costs. In response to Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Ollendorff said he did not yet have a recommendation of individual refuse collection rates, as there were a number of factors and compar- isons still to be determined.