Kraft's decision to pursue a hostile bid will create a fees bonanza for the company's many advisers.
Legislative budget writers have proposed creating a fee schedule that would charge counties for inspections and recoup about $280,000 of the money lawmakers are proposing to cut from the commission's budget.
When Baden-Württemberg created a fee of $448 per semester for a student who studies beyond seven years, four students went to court claiming violation of their right to choose an occupation freely.
The deal, which would affect the state's 8.6 million workers, aims to cut costs by limiting the number of years that some injured workers receive weekly benefits and by creating a fee schedule for drugs, lab tests and prosthetic devices used in workers' compensation cases.
There is no talk, for instance, about creating a fee-financed, independent credit rating agency, one modeled along the lines of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which was established to oversee auditors after the Enron debacle — an idea floated by Christopher J. Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman as recently as August.
The La Cañada Flintridge City Council will conduct public hearings at its next regular meeting Tuesday, seeking input on proposals to repeal a 22-month ban on approving permits for massage establishments, regulate the indoor personal cultivation of marijuana and create a master fee schedule to consolidate all city permit and process fees.
Hunt wants to create a licence fee payers' trust.
Then create a second fee package for cyberspace.
First, the state will create a new "fee" for all college students.
