For City Council Meeting May 14, 2024
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Tanya Williams, Acting City Manager
FROM: Tim Sullivan, Director of Maintenance and Facilities
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Request City Council to Conduct Public Hearing for May 14, 2024, 1) Property Owner Protest Ballot Proceeding; 2) Adopt Resolution No. 8202 Initiating the Proceedings for the Annexation of Properties to the Rialto Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 2 and to Levy and Authorize Collection of Assessments Commencing with Fiscal Year 2024/2025; and to 3) Adopt Resolution No. 8203 Declaring the Intention to Annex Properties to the Rialto Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 2 and Conduct a Property Owner Protest Ballot Proceeding on the Matter of the New Assessments Related Thereto Commencing with Fiscal Year 2024/2025.
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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 No. 2) to fund costs for the operation of new streetlights added to the City's streetlight 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 No. 2 to annex the public landscaping and lighting related to all new developments within the City. In contrast with LLMD No. 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 No. 2 to fund maintenance of exterior landscaped parkways or medians and/or new streetlights. Proposition 218 allows for the maximum special assessment rate, levied under L...
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