Inside Bay Area - Fire inspection fees will be charged, retroactively
Hotels and apartment complex owners in Belmont and San Carlos may have thought they were off the hook for fire inspection fees between $300 and $600 last year. No such luck.
After a brief debate, the Belmont-San Carlos Fire Department's board voted 3-1 to retroactively charge for mandatory fire inspections conducted in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 fiscal years. The move reverses a decision made by the former fire chief in 2005 to drop the fees amid staffing shortages and uncertainty over the department's future.
