For City Council Meeting [April 10, 2018]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Robb Steel, Interim City Administrator
FROM: Robert G. Eisenbeisz, P.E., Public Works Director/City Engineer
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Request City Council to 1) Set a Public Hearing for April 24, 2018 to Conduct a Property Owner Protest Ballot Proceeding; 2) Adopt Resolution No. 7311 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 2018/2019; 3) Adopt Resolution No. 7312 Declaring the Intention to Annex Properties to the Rialto Landscaping and Lighting District No. 2 and 4) Direct Willdan Financial Services, on behalf of the City Clerk, to mail a public notice and official ballot to all affected property owners.
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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 that new development annex into LLMD 2 to fund maintenance of exterior landscaped parkways or medians, or new streetlights. Proposition 218 allows the special assessments levied under LLMD 2 to increase commensur...
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