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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">PLEASE do not
reply to this email, contact</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="color:red">BUSD Facilities at <a href="mailto:developerfees@berkeley.net" target="_blank">developerfees@berkeley.net</a>.</span></span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:baseline" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">BUSD Implements Developer Fees (School Facility Fee)</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Effective
June 8, 2017, many new developments in Berkeley will be assessed one-time
Developer Fees, known also as a School Facility Fee, by the Berkeley Unified
School District. The fees will be $3.48 per square foot for residential
development of more than 500 square feet and $0.56 per square foot for new
commercial and industrial development.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The
District has prepared the following documents with more information about the
fees:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">• <a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BUSD-School-Facility-Fee-Notice-5-16-17.pdf" target="_blank" style="outline:0px none"><span style="color:windowtext;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">BUSD School Facility Fee Notice</span></a><br>
• <a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BUSD-Developer-Fees-FAQs-6-1-17.pdf" target="_blank" style="outline:0px none"><span style="color:windowtext;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">BUSD Developer Fees FAQs</span></a><br>
• <a href="http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BUSD-Developer-Fees-Flowchart-6-6-17.pdf" target="_blank" style="outline:0px none"><span style="color:windowtext;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">BUSD Developer Fees Flowchart</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For
questions or additional information, call BUSD Facilities at <a href="tel:%28510%29%20644-6066" target="_blank" value="+15106446066">510-644-6066</a> or
send an email to <a href="mailto:developerfees@berkeley.net" target="_blank">developerfees@berkeley.net</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px none"><strong style="outline:0px none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">Background and rationale for the fees:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">California
state law authorizes local school districts to adopt one-time fees for new
housing and commercial developments. The fees are designed to help school
districts meet the costs of expanding their facilities to accommodate increased
enrollment caused by new development.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Such fees
have been widely adopted by districts in California, including many of
Berkeley’s neighboring districts such as Oakland, Alameda, West Contra Costa
County, San Francisco and Hayward. Berkeley Unified School District, however,
has been enduring an extra financial burden caused by not having such fees and
thus not receiving the revenue that State law authorizes for development-caused
enrollment growth.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Accordingly,
the BUSD Board of Education took up the issue of developer fees in Oct. 2015,
as reported at the time by Berkeleyside. The Board voted unanimously on Oct.
28, 2015 to proceed with an <a href="http://agendaonline.net/public/Meeting/Attachments/DisplayAttachment.aspx?AttachmentID=499211&IsArchive=0" target="_blank" style="outline:0px none"><span style="color:rgb(116,51,153);border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">independent study</span></a> of the impact of new
development on enrollment in Berkeley and the corresponding amount of fees that
would be justified. The study, completed in Sept. 2016 and described in a
presentation at the Board’s Dec. 7, 2016 meeting, found that BUSD would be
justified in collecting the legal maximum of $3.48 per square foot for
residential development of more than 500 square feet and $0.56 per square foot
for new commercial and industrial development.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">On Feb.
8, 2017, the Board of Education held a public hearing on the fees and
subsequently voted unanimously to adopt them.</span></p>
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