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SANTA BARBARA — Docking your boat at a slip in Santa Barbara Harbor could become a little more expensive next year. Transferring your slip or liv- ing aboard your vessel might be more costly, as well, as the Santa Barbara Harbor Commission approved several budget recommendations to the City Council on March 17. Waterfront Business Manager Brian


Bosse outlined the proposed increases to a shorthanded four-member Harbor Commission, outlining how each boater fee would either stay stationary or increase. Santa Barbara slip fees could


increase by 2 percent, while slip trans- fer fees will remain steady for some boaters but increase for others. A slight increase for liveaboard fees is also on the table. “We are still very affordable for folks [and] our occupancy rate is at 100 per- cent,” Bosse told commissioners. A comparison of select slip fees up


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and down the Southern California coast shows Santa Barbara’s rates are more affordable than at least four other harbors, including Anacapa Isle Marina (Ventura), Ventura Village Marina, Bahia Marina (Ventura) and Long Beach Shoreline Marina. The slip rate for a 40-footer in


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Santa Barbara was $402, for example, compared to $507 at Ventura Village Marina, $654 at Bahia Marina, $669 at Long Beach Shoreline Marina, and $696 at Anacapa Isle Marina. The rate for a 40-footer in San


Diego ranges from $440 at Sea World Marina to $868 at the Marriott Marquis, according to a fee compari- son chart published by Chula Vista


Marina. Bosse explained an owner of a 20- foot vessel would pay an additional 17 cents per foot per month for his or her slip, increasing one cent for every 5- foot increase in boat size up to 60 feet (and an additional 24 cents per foot per month) Staff recommended the slip trans- fer fee to remain the same for 28- and 30-footers and designated commercial fishing slips at $400/foot. The transfer fee would increase by $25/foot for any vessels of 31 feet and larger. “Slip transfer fees are a big part of


our marina management revenues,” Bosse said. Transfer fees were at about $600,000 in 2009 and dipped to about $300,000 one year later before gradu- ally increasing to about $1.2 million in 2015. Meanwhile liveaboard fees would


increase for the first time since 2004 to $150 per month, up $10. A fee assessed to cruise ships dock-


ing in Santa Barbara Harbor would change from $5 for passengers and crew to $7 for passengers only, accord- ing to Bosse. The proposed fee increases would


help Santa Barbara Harbor maintain its revenue assumptions and proposed expenditures, according to staff. Bosse said the harbor expects to pull in more than $14.5 million in fis- cal year 2017, a 2 percent increase from 2016. Proposed expenditures for fiscal year 2017 is about $14.4 million, also a 2 percent increase from 2016. The city’s waterfront department seeks to add a new position, the first in 14 years, to handle billing for 1,139 boat slips and 67 leaseholds, track and analyze revenue, and process other accounting duties. The Santa Barbara City Council will


review the fee proposals at a budget work session in May; budget hearings will take place in late June.


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