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<br /> ...1 <br /> Boulder Valley that use the use tax we're <br /> the one that is different and that makes <br /> that harder on developers. We should fit <br /> the norm rather than the exception and <br /> especially if there is not revenue <br /> difference to the city. Does staff have <br /> a particular preference for one reason or <br /> another over the use tax versus the <br /> services expansion. Davidson is not so <br /> strong on this issue that if staff didn't <br /> have a very good reason to keep the <br /> service expansion fee instead of the use <br /> tax he wouldn't consider that. <br /> Brand: The service expansion fee includes a lot <br /> of costs; you wouldn't be abandoning it <br /> for the use tax, just part of it. <br /> Davidson: Is it possible to go ahead and do it in <br /> the election but then make the effective <br /> date far enough in the future such that <br /> City staff would have enough time to do <br /> that analysis? <br /> Ross: I will have to refer back to you on that. <br /> Carnival: Sharon, can you respond to Margaret's <br /> comments about the current system being <br /> an administrative nightmare? <br /> Asti-Caranci: Actually to my knowledge, and maybe John <br /> could help because they go to the <br /> Building Department, I only know of two <br /> people who have applied for a refund <br /> since it started. <br /> Hornbostel: What happens to the guy that doesn't know <br /> it exists? I am worried about it being <br /> an exception. I want some regularity and <br /> fairness, if we are talking about <br /> fairness to companies like Alpine Lumber <br /> you want to make things as normal as <br /> possible. The normal mechanism for these <br /> things is a use tax not a credit. <br /> Brand: This doesn't have anything to do with <br /> whether you extend the use tax to include <br /> residential building material on the <br /> ballot. As a point of clarification about <br /> 12 <br />