A. The Assembly of the Fairbanks North Star Borough has full legislative responsibility for all service areas and may review and accept, reject or modify the budget, annual plans and proposed tax levy of the service area commission.

B. The Assembly, with the recommendation of the administration, shall set a direct services fee for each service area to cover the administrative cost of that service area. For road, sewer, light and water service areas, the direct services fee shall be limited to no more than the full cost of liability insurance plus the actual expenditures of Rural Services for the preceding closed fiscal year. The fee may be less, depending upon whether additional non-service area duties are imposed on Rural Services staff, and other factors. This limitation, however, does not preclude direct costs chargeable to individual service areas because of particularized services such as legal costs, or costs incurred pursuant to subsection (B)(2) of this section.