§ 14.16.161. Customer facility charge.

A.

Beginning February 1, 2012, the city will impose a customer facility charge (CFC) in the initial amount of $3.50 per transaction day on each customer renting a motor vehicle from an on-airport vehicle rental concessionaire. The city manager or his/her designee shall provide thirty days prior written notice to the on-airport vehicle rental concessionaires before the initial fee is imposed. The amount of the CFC may be adjusted from time to time by the city in its annual budget resolution approved by the city council.

B.

"Motor vehicle" means a driverless automobile as that term is defined in Section 6.36.010 of the El Paso City Code.

C.

"Transaction day" means, with respect to rentals of motor vehicles, up to a twenty-five-hour period or fraction thereof for the first transaction day and successive twenty-four-hour periods (or fractions thereof) for each successive transaction day.

D.

The on-airport vehicle rental concessionaires shall collect the CFC from their customers on behalf of the city. The vehicle rental concession agreement approved by the city council will govern how the on-airport vehicle rental concessionaires identify the CFC on contracts, and each on-airport vehicle rental concessionaire must so identify the CFC. Each on-airport vehicle rental concessionaire must charge each customer the total amount of CFCs due under the customer's contract at the time the final number of transaction days are determined under the contract, and must remit such total amount of the CFCs pursuant to the terms and conditions of its vehicle rental concession agreement.

E.

"Permitted costs" means the costs eligible for payment with funds created by the collection of the CFC. Permitted costs shall include:

1.

To pay the city costs of customer facility charge administration and any rebate requirements related to the bonds;

2.

To fund a renewal and replacement reserve fund to fund major facility maintenance and other costs;

3.

To fund operational and maintenance expenses of the ConRAC, including operational and maintenance expenses for equipment in the ConRAC and signage and landscaping related to the ConRAC;

4.

To pay reimbursable operational and maintenance costs incurred by the city;

5.

To fund the customer facility charge surplus fund to be available to finance eligible costs related to the ConRAC, including the reimbursement of supplemental consideration previously paid by the concessionaire,

6.

To fund a one-time tenant improvement allowance for the initial build-out of tenant improvements, prior to date of beneficial occupancy of the ConRAC; and

7.

To pay for design, demolition, construction, operation, and maintenance of airport-owned facilities in the on-airport car rental operations support areas located in the consolidated facility or in the airport terminal and of the signage and landscaping related to the consolidated facility.

8.

To pay for design and construction costs arising from the reallocation of the exclusive use areas within the consolidated rental agency, from time to time, pursuant to the terms of the consolidated rental agency complex facilities lease, as amended from time to time, (or similar agreement then in effect) between the city and the on-airport vehicle rental concessionaires at the airport.

(Ord. No. 17699, § 1, 12-20-2011; Ord. No. 18489 , § 1, 4-19-2016)