HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 16-025 - Resolution of intention Order the Levy & Collection of Assessments LLA 1617RESOLUTION NO. 16-025
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 LLA -1
FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, as follows:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No.15-063, "A Resolution Describing Improvements
and Directing Preparation of Engineer's Report for Fiscal Year 2016-2017", for City of Saratoga
Landscaping and Lighting District LLA -1, adopted on October 21, 2015, 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. 15-063, which said report has been submitted and preliminarily approved by
this Council in accordance with said Act;
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 2016-2017 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 LLA -1," 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 any zones therein, and the proposed assessments upon assessable lots and parcels of land
within the district.
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4. Notice is hereby given that Wednesday, the 1st day of June, 2016, 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) 868-1241.
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Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, at a meeting
thereof held on the 20th day of April 2016, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: Mayor E. Manny Cappello, Vice Mayor Emily Lo, Council Member Mary -Lynne
Bernald, Howard A. Miller, Rishi Kumar
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST:
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Cry Bothelio, City Clerk
DATE:
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E. Manny Cappello, Mayor
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; the operation of any fountains; and bioretention treatment swales or the
maintenance of any other improvements all as more particularly described in the City of Saratoga
Engineer's Report for fiscal year 2016/2017.
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