The city council finds that in order to avoid any person or particular class of persons being unduly benefited at public expense, and in order to equitably apportion certain administrative costs of the city, made necessary by reason of their employment by the citizens in their legitimate request for public services, it is reasonable and necessary to fix charges therefor, not as a means of revenue, but in order to defray a portion of the city’s costs of such services to the taxpayer. (Ord. 1520 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023).