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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 577 WJML: KJmh 5-24~71-15 RESOLUTION NO. 577 A RESOLUTION AND ORDER ADOPTING ENGINEER'S REPORT, CONFIRMING THE ASSESSMENT AND ORDERING THE WORK ' AND ACQUISITIONS SARATOGA CAMPUS RECREATIONAL FACILITIES ASSESSMENT DISTRICT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, that WHEREAS, on March 17, 19?l, this Council adopted its Resolu- tion of Intention No. 565, to acquire and construct public improve- 'merits in said City, and referred the proposed acquisitions and improvements to the Engineer of Work of said City, he being the officer having charge and control of the construction of improve- ments in and for said City of the kind described in said Resolution of Intention, and being a competent person appointed by said Council for that purpose; WHEREAS, said Council thereby directed said Engineer of Work to make and file with the City Clerk of this City a report in writing in accordance with and pursuant to the Municipal improve- ment Act of 1913; WHEREAS, said report was duly made and filed with the Clerk of this City, whereupon said Clerk presented. it to this Council for consideration; WHEREAS, this Council thereupon duly considered said report and each and every part thereof and found that it contained all the matters and things called for by the provisions of said Act, in- cluding (1) plans and specifications of the proposed improvements, (2) estimate of costs, (3) diagram of district, (4) an assessment according to benefits, and (5) maps and descriptions of lands and easements to be acquired, all of which was done in the form and manner required by said Act; WHEREAS, said Council found that said report and each and every part thereof was sufficient in every particular and determined that it should stand as the report for all subsequent proceedings under said Act, whereupon said Council, pursuant to the require- ments of said Act, appointed Wednesday, the 2nd day of June, 1971~ at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P.M. of said day, in the Council Chambers, 13777 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, California, as the time and place for hearing protests in relation to said proposed acquisitions and improvements, and directing the City Clerk to give noticeof said hearing as required by said Act~ WHEREAS, it appears that notices of said hearing were duly and regularly posted, mailed and published in the time, form and manner required by said Act, as evidenced by the affidavits on file with said Clerk, whereupon said hearing was duly and regu- larly held at the time and place stated in said notice~ and WHEREAS, no persons interested, objecting to said acquisitions and improvements, or to the extent of the assessment district, or to the proposed assessment or diagram~ or to the maps and descrip- tions, or to the grades at which said work will be done, or to the Engineer's estimate of the costs and expenses thereof, filed written protests with the Clerk of said City at or before the time set for hearing, and all persons interested desiring to be heard were given an opportunity to be heard, and all matters and things pertaining to said acquisitions and improvements were fully heard and considered by said Council, and this Council has acquired Jurisdiction to order said acquisitions and improvements and the confirmation of said diagram and assessment to pay the costs and expenses thereof; NOW, THEREFORE, said Council does hereby FIND, DETERMINE and ORDER, as follows: 1. That the owners of one-half of the area to be assessed for the cost of the project did not, at or prior to the time fixed for said hearing~ file written protests against the said proposed acquisitions and improvements as a whole, or against the said dis- trict or the extent thereof to be assessed for the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements as a whole, or as to the Engineer's estimate of said costs and expenses, or against the maps and descriptions, or against the diagram or assessment to pay the costs and expenses thereof. 2. That the district benefited by said acquisitions and improvements and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, and the exterior boundaries thereof, are more particularly described in said Resolution of Intention and made a part hereof by reference thereto. 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 said district and from the levy and collection of the special taxes to be hereafter levied and collected to cover the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 3. That the plans and specifications for the proposed improvements, contained in said report, be, and they are hereby adopted and approved as the plans and specifications to which said work shall be done as called for in said Resolution of Intention. 4. That the Engineer's estimate of the itemized and total costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements~ and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith, contained in said report, be, and it is hereby adopted and approved as the Engineer's total and detailed estimate of the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 5. That the maps and descriptions of the lands and easements to be acquired, as contained in said report, be, and the same are hereby approved and confirmed. 6. That the public interest and convenience require and said Council does hereby authorize i~provements to be made at the expense of the West Valley Joint Community College District to Fruitvale Avenue Parking lot 3 No. 1 and that the public interest and convenience require and said Council does order the acquisitions and improvements to be made as describedin and in accordance with said Resolution of Intention subject to confirmation of validity of these assessment proceedings in accord with supplemental legal opinion obtained by city. Reference to said Resolution of Intention, on file in the office of the Clerk of said City, is hereby made for a more particular description of said acquisitions and improvements. Said acqui- sitions shall include acquisition of improvements made to Fruitvale Avenue Parking Lot No. 1 at the expense of West Valley Joint Community College District in accord with plans approved for said parking lot improvement. Further ref- erence is made to said Resolution of Intention for further particulars pursuant to the provisions of said Municipal Improvement Act of 1913. 7, That the diagram showing the assessment district referred to and described in said Resolution of Intention, 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 said Resolution of Intention, each of which sub- division having been given a separate number upon said diagram, as contained in said report, be, and it is hereby approved and confirmed as the diagram of the properties to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 8. That the 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 said subdivisions, respectively, from said acquisitions and improvements, and of the expenses incidental thereto, contained in said report, be, and the same is hereby approved and confirmed as the assessment to pay the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements. 9. That said Engineer's report be, and the sameis hereby adopted and approved as a whole. 10. That the City Clerk shall forthwith deliver to the Superintendent of Streets the said assessment, together with said diagram thereto attached and made a part thereof, as confirmed by this Council, with his certificate of such confirmation thereto attached and of the date thereof; and that said Superinten- dent of Streets shall record said diagram and assessment in his office in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose, and append thereto his _&_ certificate of the date of such recording, and such recordation shall be and constitute the assessment roll hereino llo That said Superintendent of Streets, upon the recording of said diagram and assessment, shall mail to each owner of real property within the assessment district at his last known address as the same appears on the tax rolls of the City, or on file in the office of the City Clerk of this City, or to both addresses if said address is not the same, or to the general delivery when no address so appears, a statement containing a designation by street number or other description of the property assessed suffi- cient to enable the owner to identify the same, the amount of the assessment, the time and place of payment thereof~ the effect of failure to pay within such time, and a statement of the fact that bonds will be issued on the unpaid assessmen~ pursuant to the Improvement Act of 1911. 12. That said Superintendent of Streets shall also give notice by publishing a copy of a Notice to Pay Assessments by three successive insertions in the Saratoga News, a newspaper published in said City, that said assessment has been recorded in his office, that all sums assessed thereon are due and payable immediately, and that the payment of said sums is to be made thirty (SO) days after the date of recording said assessment~ which date shall be stated in said notice, and of the fact that bonds will be issued upon unpaid assessmen~ as above provided. 5 I hereby certify that the fsregoing 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 16th day of June , 19 71. ~ by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Councilmen Robbins, Smith, Dwyer, Bridge s NOES, Councilmen: None ABSENT, Councilmen: Non~ ABSTAINED: Councilman Sanders APPROVED: Mayo r