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Resolutions (2).pdf1  RESOLUTION NO.  A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ORDER THE  LEVY AND COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS PURSUANT  TO THE LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ACT OF 1972  CITY OF SARATOGA LANDSCAPING AND  LIGHTING ASSESSMENT DISTRICT LLA­1  FISCAL YEAR 2009­2010  RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, as follows:  WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 09­008, "A Resolution Describing Improvements  and Directing Preparation of Engineer's Report for Fiscal Year 2009­2010", for City of Saratoga  Landscaping and Lighting District LLA­1, adopted on February 18, 2009, by the City Council of  said City, pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, the Engineer of said City has  prepared and filed with the Clerk of this City the written report called for under said Act and by  said Resolution No. 09­008, which said report has been submitted and preliminarily approved by  this Council in accordance with said ActÍž  NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby found, determined and ordered, as follows:  1. In its opinion the public interest and convenience require and it is the intention of  this Council to order the levy and collection of assessments for Fiscal Year 2009­2010 pursuant to  the provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, Part 2, Division 15 of the Streets and  Highways Code of the State of California, for the construction or installation of the  improvements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, more particularly  described in Exhibit "A" hereto attached and by reference incorporated herein.  2. The cost and expenses of said improvements, including the maintenance or  servicing, or both, thereof, are to be made chargeable upon the assessment district designated as  "City of Saratoga Landscaping and Lighting District LLA­1," the exterior boundaries of which are  the composite and consolidated areas as more particularly described on a map thereof on file in  the office of the Clerk of said City, to which reference is hereby made for further particulars.  Said  map indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory included in the district and of any zone  thereof and the general location of said district.  3. Said Engineer's Report prepared by the Engineer of said City, preliminarily  approved by this Council, and on file with the City Clerk of this City is hereby referred to for a  full and detailed description of the improvements and the boundaries of the assessment district and 2  any zones therein, and the proposed assessments upon assessable lots and parcels of land within  the district.  4. Notice is hereby given that Wednesday, the 3rd day of June, 2009, at the hour of  7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 13777 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, California, be and  the same are hereby appointed and fixed as the time and place for a hearing by this Council on the  question of the levy and collection of the proposed assessment for the construction or installation  of said improvements, including the maintenance and servicing, or both, thereof, and when and  where it will consider all oral statements and all written protests made or filed by any interested  person at or before the conclusion of said hearing, against said improvements, the boundaries of  the assessment district and any zone therein, the proposed diagram or the proposed assessment, to  the Engineer's estimate of the cost thereof, and when and where it will consider and finally act  upon the Engineer's report, and tabulate the ballots.  5. The Clerk of said City be, and hereby is, directed to give notice of said hearing by  causing a copy of this Resolution to be published once in the Saratoga News, a newspaper  published and circulated in said City, and by conspicuously posting a copy thereof upon the  official bulletin board customarily used by the City of Saratoga for the posting of notices, said  posting and publication to be had and completed at least ten (10) days prior to the date of hearing  specified herein.  6. The Office of the City Engineer be, and hereby is designated as the office to  answer inquiries regarding any protest proceedings to be had herein, and may be contacted during  the regular office hours at the City Hall, 13777 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, California 95070, or  by calling (408) 868­1241.  * * * * *  Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, at a meeting  thereof held on the 15th day of April, 2009, by the following vote of the members thereof:  AYES:  NOES:  ABSENT:  ABSTAIN:  Chuck Page, Mayor  Attest: City of Saratoga  Ann Sullivan, City Clerk Exhibit A DESCRIPTION OF IMPROVEMENTS The design, construction or installation, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, of landscaping, including trees, shrubs, grass or other ornamental vegetation, statuary, fountains and other ornamental structures and facilities, and public lighting facilities for the lighting of any public places, including traffic signals, ornamental standards, luminaries, poles, supports, tunnels, manholes, vaults, conduits, pipes, wires, conductors, guys, stubs, platforms, braces, transformers, insulators, contacts, switches, capacitors, meters, communication circuits, appliances, attachments and appurtenances, including the cost of repair, removal or replacement of all or any part thereof, providing for the life, growth, health and beauty of landscaping, including cultivation, irrigation, trimming, spraying, fertilizing and treating for disease or injury; the removal of trimmings, rubbish, debris and other solid waste; electric current or energy, gas or other illuminating agent for any public lighting facilities or for the lighting or operation of any other improvements; and the operation of any fountains or the maintenance of any other improvements. 1 RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION OF PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF ENGINEER'S REPORT CITY OF SARATOGA LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ASSESSMENT DISTRICT LLA-1 FISCAL YEAR 2009-2010 RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California as follows: WHEREAS, pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, on the 18th day of February, 2009, said Council did adopt its Resolution No. 09-008, "A Resolution Describing Improvements and Directing Preparation of Engineer's Report For Fiscal Year 2009-2010", for the City of Saratoga Landscaping and Lighting District LLA-1, in said City and did refer the proposed improvements to the Engineer of the City and did therein direct said Engineer to prepare and file with the City Clerk of said City a report, in writing, all as therein more particularly described: WHEREAS, said City Engineer prepared and filed with the City Clerk a report in writing as called for in said Resolution No. 09-008 and under and pursuant to said Act, which report has been presented to this Council for consideration; WHEREAS, said Council has duly considered said report and each and every part thereof, and finds that each and every part of said report is sufficient, and that neither said report, nor any part thereof should be modified in any respect; NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby found, determined and ordered, as follows: 1. That the plans and specifications for the existing improvements and the proposed new improvements to be made within the assessment district or within any zone thereof, contained in said report, be, and they are hereby preliminarily approved. 2. That the Engineer's estimate of the itemized and total costs and expenses of said improvements, maintenance and servicing thereof, and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith, contained in said report, be, and each of them are hereby preliminarily approved. 3. That the diagram showing the exterior boundaries of the assessment district referred to and described in said Resolution No. 09-008 and also the boundaries of any zones therein and the lines and dimensions of each lot or parcel of land within said district as such lot or parcel of land is shown on the County Assessor's maps for the fiscal year to which the report applies, each of which lot or parcel of land has been given a separate number upon said diagram, as contained in said report, be, and it hereby is preliminarily approved. 2 4. That the proposed assessment of the total amount of the estimated costs and expenses of the proposed improvements upon the several lots or parcels of land in said assessment district in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by such lots or parcels, respectively, from said improvements including the maintenance or servicing or both, thereof, and of the expenses incidental thereto, as contained in said report, be, and they are hereby preliminarily approved. 5. That said report shall stand as the Engineer's Report for the purpose of all subsequent proceedings to be had pursuant to said Resolution No. 09-008. * * * * Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, at a meeting thereof held on the 15th day of April, 2009 by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: Chuck Page, Mayor ATTEST: City of Saratoga Ann Sullivan, City Clerk