For City Council Meeting [September 24,2019]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Administrator
FROM: Sean Grayson, Acting Public Works Director
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Request City Council to Set a Public Hearing for November 12, 2019 to Conduct a Property Owner Protest Ballot Proceeding; Adopt Resolution No.7560 Initiating the Proceedings for the Annexation of Properties to the Rialto Landscaping and Lighting District No. 2 and to Levy and Authorize Collection of Assessments Commencing with Fiscal Year 2020/2021; and to Adopt Resolution No.7561 Declaring the Intention to Annex Properties to the Rialto Landscaping and Lighting District No. 2 and Conduct a Property Owner Protest Ballot Proceeding On The Matter of the New Assessments Related Thereto Commencing with Fiscal Year 2020/2021.
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BACKGROUND:
The Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, (the "Act"), beginning with Section 22500 of the California Streets and Highways Code, authorizes the City Council to establish a special district to pay for the costs to operate and maintain public improvements that benefit private properties. In January 2005, the City Council established Rialto Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 2 ("LLMD 2") to fund costs for the operation of new street lights added to the City's street light system, and to fund costs for the maintenance of exterior parkway and median irrigation and landscaping adjacent to and associated with private land development.
The City established LLMD 2 to annex the public landscaping and lighting related to all new developments within the City. In contrast with LLMD 1, the City may annually adjust the special assessments for inflation, using the Consumer Price Index ("CPI"). The City conditions new development to annex into LLMD 2 to fund maintenance of exterior landscaped parkways or medians, or new street lights. Proposition 218 allows the special assessments levied under LLMD 2 to increase commensurate with the CPI without...
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