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RESOLUTION NO. 565
A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ACQUIRE
AND CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS
SARATOGA CAMPUS RECREATIONAL FACILITIES
ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
RESOLVED, by the City Cotmcil of the City of Saratoga,
California, that
1. In its opinion the public interest and convenience require
and that it is the intention of said Council to order the acquisi-
tions and improvements as hereinafter described.
2. Whenever any public way is heroin referred to as running
between two public ways, or from or to any public way, the intersec-
tions 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 arejmore particularly shown in
the records in the office of the County Recorder of the County of
Santa Clara, 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 constructed
at the places and in the particular locations, of the forms, sizes,
dimensions and materials, 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 work herein described any
of such work already done to line and grade and marked excepted or
shown not to be done on said plans, profiles and specifications.
6. Notice is hereby given of the fact that in many cases said
work and improvement will bring the finished work to a grade differ-
ent 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 acquisitions and improvements are more particularly
described as follows:
A. Parking Lots
The improving of the following portions of the Saratoga Campus of
the West Valley Community College District as offstreet parking
lots by grading and the construction thereon of pavement~ curbs,
gutters, storm drainage facilities, planting and landscaping
facilities complete with automatic sprinkler irrigation systems,
and lighting facilities:
Lot No. 1
An area of land lying easterly of and near Fruitvale Avenue com-
mencing approximately 600 feet southerly of Allendale Avenue and
extending southerly about 820 feet, including the improving of an
access road southerly and adjacent thereto, extending from
Fruitvale Avenue easterly along said proposed parking lot, thence
continuing northeasterly and northerly to the Campus Center.
Lot No. 2
A parcel of land at the southeasterly intersection of Allendale
Avenue and Fruitvale Avenue, including the construction of an
identification sign.
Lot No. 3
Two parcels of land lying southeasterly of the existing perimeter
access road through the Campus lying between the proposed Field
Game Area and the existing Library and Warehouse and Maintenance
Center.
Lot No. 4
A parcel of land at the southwesterly comer of the Campus adjacent
to Fruitv~le Avenue.
B. ~.~letic Recreation Field
The construction of an athletic recreation field in the southeast-
erly area of the Campus easterly of'the existing tennis courts,
by grading and the installation and construction of turfing, auto-
matic sprinkler irrigation system, erosion control facilities,
storm drainage system, chain link fence, goal posts, equipment
shed, bleachers, and appurtenances.
C. R~ning Track
The construction of a running track around the proposed athletic
recreation field, including concrete curbing, track runways and
track surfacing.
D. Baseball Field
The construction of a baseball field southerly of Parking Lot
No. l, by grading and the construction of and installation of curb-
ing, turfing, automatic sprinkler irrigation system, storm drainage
system, retaining walls, chain link fence, back stop, dugout and
storage areas~ guard rails, bleachers~ and appurtenances.
E. Tennis Courts
The construction of eight (8) tennis courts immediately easterly of
Parking Lot No. ~, with synthetic surfacing on blacktop, fencing,
lighting, and nets.
F. Handball Courts
The construction of handball courts northerly of the athletic
recreation field and running track, by excavation and the con-
struction of concrete floors and walls, and necessary drainage
facilities.
G. Challenge Course
The construction of a challenge course immediately northerly of
said handball courts, including grading and the construction of
sand bed, concrete curbing, challenge course equipment, drainage
system, and A.C. paving.
H. Field Game Areas (Football Practice, Soccer and Hockey Fields)
The construction of a field game area southerly of proposed Park-
ing Lot No. B at the southeasterly corner of the Campus, by
grading, turfing, sprinkler irrigation systems, erosion control
facilities, storm drainage facilities, chain link fencing, goal
posts (football, soccer and hockey), football tackling foundations,
softball back stops, and portable bleachers.
I. Golf Area
The construction of a golf practice area westerly of the handball
and challenge course areas, by the construction of a putting
green, driving nets, golf tee areas, and appurtenances.
J. AEhery Field
The construction of an archery range area immediately southerly
of the baseball field, by grading and the construction of turfing,
sprinkler irrigation facilities, erosion control facilities, and
storm drainage facilities.
K. Swimming Pool Bleachers
The construction of bleachers along the westerly side of the exist-
ing swimming pool, consisting of concrete structure with plastic
benches.
L. Fencing
The construction of a perimeter chain link fence along the east-
erly line of the Campus from an angle point northerly of the
existing warehouse and maintenance center and running in a
generally southerly direction to the south boundary of the Campus,
thence westerly about BOO feet.
M. Pathway System
The construction of a system of interconnecting pathways to pro-
vide pedestrian access among the various foregoing facilities.
N. Auxi.!.iar~
The acquisition of all lands and easements and the construction
of all work auxiliary to any of the above and necessary to complete
the same.
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8. Notice is further given that the City Council proposes to
enter into an agreement with the West Valley Joint Community College
District pursuant to Sections 10109 and following of the Streets and
Highways Code, which will provide for the ownership and responsibility
for maintenance and operation of all of said recreational facilities
proposed to be constructed pursuant to this Resolution of Intention
will vest in said College District.
9. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as the offi-
cial grades for said work the grades and elevations to be shown upon
said plans, profiles and specifications. All such grades and eleva-
tions are to be in feet and decimals thereof with reference to the
datum plane of the City of Saratoga.
10. The descriptions of the acquisitions and improvements and
the termini of the work contained in this Resolution are general in
nature. All items 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 descrip-
tion thereof.
11. Said contemplated acquisitions and improvements, in the
opinion of said Council, are of more than local or ordinary public
benefit, and the costs and expenses thereof are made chargeable
upon an assessment district, the exterior boundaries of which dis-
trict are the composite and consolidated area of the lands of the
West Valley Joint Community College District at the southeasterly
corner of Allendale Avenue and Fruitvale Avenue, more particularly
shown on a map thereof on file in the office of the City Clerk, to
which reference is hereby made for further particulars. Said map
indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory included in
the proposed district and shall govern for all details as to the
extent of the assessment district.
12. 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 expenses of said acqui-
sitions and improvements.
1B. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent the
unpaid assessments, and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed
seven percent (7%) per annum, will be issued hereunder in the manner
provided by Chapter 4.5, commencing with Section 6~68, of Part 5 of
Division 7 of the Streets and Highways Code, the Improvement Act of
1911. The bonds shall be issued in ten (lO) even annual series,
payable on the second day of June every year, beginning with the
fiscal year next following the date of the bonds.
14. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance of
bonds, all of said improvements shall be done pursuant to the pro-
visions of the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913.
15. Reference is hereby made to proceedings had pursuant to
Division ~ of the Streets and Highways Code on file in the office
of the City Clerk.
16. Said proposed acquisitions and improvements are hereby
referred to the Engineer of Work, being a competent person employed
by said City for that purpose; and said Engineer 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 improvements
to be made pursuant to this Resolution of Intention;
b) Engineer's statement of the itemized and total esti-
mated costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements and
of the incidental expenses in connection therewith;
c) Diagram showing the assessment district above referred
to, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respective
subdivisions of land within said district as the same existed at the
time of the passage of this Resolution of Intention, 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 land in said district in proportion
to the estimated benefits to be received by such subdivisions,
respectively, from said acquisitions and improvements, and of the
expenses incidental thereto;
e) Maps and descriptions of the lands and easements to
be acquired.
When any portion or percentage of the cost and expenses
of the acquisitions and improvements is to be paid from sources
other than assessments, the amount of such portion or percentage
shall first be deducted from the total estimated cost and expenses
of said acquisitions and improvements, and said assessment shall
include only the remainder of the estimated cost and expenses.
Said assessment shall refer to said subdivisions by their respective
numbers as assigned pursuant to subdivision (c) of this Section.
17. If any exce~s 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 fol-
lowing 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 improvement 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 ~7~h day of .... March
19?l, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen:
Councilmen Robbins, Smith, Dwysr, Sanders, Bridges
NOES~ Councilmen: None
ABSENT, Councilmen:
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APPROVED:
Mayor