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RESOLUTION NO. 232
A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ACQUIRE
ANDCONSTRUCTIMPROVEMENTS
PIKE ROAD ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
RESOLVED, by the city council of the City of Saratoga, Calif-
ornia, as follows:
1. That in its opinion the public interest and conveniencf
require and that it is the intention of said Council to order
the following acquisitions and improvements, to-wit:
Pierce
Road running thence southerly and south-easterly 3000 feet,
more or less, and the improving thereof by clearing, grubb-
ing, grading and the construction therein 0f base, pavement
curbs, gutters and surface and subsurface storm drainage
facilities, where necessary, together with all appurtenances
thereto.
(b) The acquisition of all lands and easements and the
performing of work auxiliary to any of the above which may be
necessary to complete the same.
2. Whenever any public way is herein referred to as
running between two public ways, or from or to any public way,
the intersections of the public ways referred to are included
to the extent that work shall be shown on the plans to be done
therein.
3. Said streets and highways are more particularly shown
in the records in the office of the County Recorder of Santa
Clara County, California, and shall be shown upon the plans
herein referred to and to be filed with the City Clerk of said
City.
4. All of said work and improvements are to be construct-
ed at the places and in the particular locations, of the forms,
sizes, dimensions and materials, and at the lines, grades and
at the lines, grades and elevations as shown and delineated
upon the plans, profiles and specifications to be made therefor,
as hereinafter provided.
5. There is to be excepted from the acquisitions and
improvements herein described any thereof which have already
been acquired or improved to the standards required by the City
of Saratoga at the ~ime said improvements were installed°
6. Notice is hereby given of the fact that in many cases
said work and improvement will bring the finished work to a
grade different from that formerly existing,~and that to said
extent said grades are hereby changed and that said work will
be done to said changed grades.
7. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as the
official grades for said work the grades and elevations to be
shown upon said plans, profiles and specifications. All such
grades and elevations are to be in feet and decimals thereof
with reference to the datum plane of the City of Saratoga.
8. The descriptions of the improvements and the termini
of the work contained in this resglution are general in nature.
All itsms of work do not necessarily extend for the full length
of the description thereof. The plans and profiles of the work
and the maps and descriptions, as contained in the Engineer's
report, shall be controlling as to the correct and detailed
description thereof.
9. That the City will contribute an amount equal to two-
thirds of the cost of said improvements, together with the
expenses incidental thereto, and that the balance of the cost
and expenses incidental thereto be assessed upon the district
benefited thereby, which district is described as the exterior
boundaries of the consolidated and composite area of the par-
cels of property fronting on the proposed improvements more
particularly shown on a map thereof entitled "M]ap Showing the
Exterior Boundaries of the Pike Road Assessment District", on
file in the office of the City Clerk, which indicates by a
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boundary line the extent of the territory proposed to be in-
cluded in the assessment district and which shall govern for all
details.
10. Said Council further declares that all public 'streets
and highways within said assessment district in use in the
performance of a public function as such shall be omitted from
the assessment hereafter to be made to cover the costs and ex-
penses of said acquisitions and improvements.
ll. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent
the unpaid assessments, and bear interest at the rate of not
to exceed six per cent (6%) per annum, will be issued hereunder
in the manner provided in the Improvement Bond Act of 1915~
Division lO of the Streets and Highways Code~ the last install-
ment of which bonds shall mature not to exceed fourteen (14)
years from the second day of July next succeeding ten (lO)
months from their date.
12. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance
of bonds~ all of said improvements shall be done pursuant to
the provisions of the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913.
13. Reference is hereby made to proceedings had pursuant
to Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code on file in the
office of the City Clerk.
14. Said proposed acquisitions and improvements are he~e-
by referred to the Director of Public Works~ being a competent
person employed by said City for that purpose; and said Engin-
eer is hereby directed to make and file with the City CLerk of
said City a report in writing, presenting the following:
(a) Plans and specifications of the proposed improve-
ments to be made pursuant to this Resolution of Intention;
(b) Engineer's statement of the itemized and total
estimated costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improve-
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ments and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith;
(c) Diagram showing the assessment district above re-
ferred to, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respec-
tive subdivisions of land within said district as the same
existed at the time of the passage of this Resolution of Inten-
tion, each of which subdivisions shall be given a separate
number upon said diagram;
(d) A proposed assessment of the total amount of the
costs and expenses of the proposed acquisitions and improvements
upon the several subdivisions of l~nd in said district in pro-
portion to the estimated benefits to be received by such sub-
divisions, respectively, from said acquisitions and improvements
and of the expenses incidental thereto~ and
(e) Naps and descriptions of any lands and easements
and property to b:e acquired.
15. If any excess shall be realized from the assessment
it shall be used, in such amounts as the Council may determine
in accordance with the provisions of law~ for one or more of
the following purposes:
(a) Transfer to the general fund of the City, provided
that the amount of any such transfer shall not exceed the lesser
of $1,000 or 5% of the total amount expended from the ~provemenl
fund;
(b) As a credit upon the assessment and any supplemental
assessment~ or
(c) For the maintenance of the improvements.
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I hereby certify~ that the foregoing is a full, true and
correct copy of Resolution duly passed and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Saratoga, California, at a meeting thereof
held on the Fth day of April , 196 5 by the following
vote of the members thereof: '
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Glennon,
Drake, Hartman, Tyler, Burry
NOES, Councilmen: none
ABSENT, Councilmen: none
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