For City Council Meeting [April 23, 2019]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Interim City Administrator
FROM: Robb Steel, Assistant CA/Development Services Director
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Request City Council to Approve Professional Services Agreement with Stanley R. Hoffman & Associates to Prepare a Citywide Fiscal Impact Analysis for the Purpose of Establishing a Mitigation Fee Schedule in the amount of $20,000.
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BACKGROUND:
The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 provides the foundation for establishing Community Facilities Districts. The Mello-Roos Act allows cities to levy a special tax upon real property to finance facilities or services by forming a CFD. Most cities have used CFD's to finance facilities, but many have also financed services. The City establishes the CFD after a vote by the affected landowner(s), usually the land developer conditioned by the City to create one to mitigate the impacts of the project.
The Act places limitations on the scope of services payable via a special tax. The permissible services include police protection, jail or detention facilities, fire protection and suppression services, ambulance and paramedic services, park and open space maintenance, flood control and environmental remediation services. The City may not levy special taxes for recreation programs, library, museums, cultural facilities, or schools.
A key legislative requirement is that the CFD may only finance services "to the extent they are in addition to those provided within the area of the district before the district was created" and the additional services may not supplant services already within that territory when the district was created". Landowner vote CFD's could only be used to mitigate the impacts of new development, and not to address existing service deficiencies (in effect, to finance existing service levels).
Existing CFD's in Rialto
On November 1, 2005, the City Council adopted a policy for new develop...
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