HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 20-017 LLAD Collection of assessmentsRESOLUTION NO. 20-017
A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ORDER THE
LEVY AND COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS FOR THE CITY OF SARATOGA
LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ASSESSMENT LLA-1 PURSUANT TO
THE LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ACT OF 1972
AND TO SET A HEARING THEREON
FISCAL YEAR 2020-2021
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, as follows:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 19-058, "A Resolution Describing Improvements
and Directing Preparation of Engineer's Report for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 ", for City of Saratoga
Landscaping and Lighting District LLA-1, adopted on October 16, 2019, 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
("Report") and by said Resolution No. 19-058, 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 2020-2021 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-I," 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. As detailed in said Engineer's Report, the proposed assessments are not
proposed to increase above amounts previously approved.
4. Notice is hereby given that Wednesday, the 17th day of June, 2020, at the hour of
7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at either (1) the City Council Chambers at 13777
Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, California, or (2) a teleconference location to be specified in the
agenda for the City Council meeting to be held on that day is 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. At said hearing the City Council 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.
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 together with any other notice required by law.
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 (except when closed due to emergency orders), by e-mailing jcherbone@saratoga.ca.us, or
by calling (408) 868-1241.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, at a meeting
thereof held on the 15th day of April 2020, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: Mayor Howard A. Miller, Vice Mayor Mary -Lynne Bernald, Council Members E.
Manny Cappello, Yan Zhao, Rishi Kumar
NOES:
ABSENT:
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ebbie Bretschneider, City Clerk DATE
Howard A. Miller, Mayor
City of Saratoga
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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, basins,
and infiltration systems or the maintenance of any other improvements all as more particularly
described in the City of Saratoga Engineer's Report for fiscal year 2019/2020.
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