HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 22-013, Intention to Levy and Collect Assessments for LLA-1, FY 22-23RESOLUTION NO. 22-013
A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SARATOGA 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 2022-2023
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, as follows:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 21-079, "A Resolution Describing
Improvements and Directing Preparation of Engineer's Report for Fiscal Year 2022-2023", for
City of Saratoga Landscaping and Lighting District LLA-1, adopted on December 1, 2021, 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. 21-079, 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 2022-2023 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.
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4. Notice is hereby given that Wednesday, the 15th day of June, 2022, at the hour of
7:00 p.m. 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, 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 (except when closed due to emergency orders), by e-mailing jcherbone@saratoga.ca.us, or
by calling (408) 868-1241.
The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the
Saratoga City Council held on the 20t" day of April 2022 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS BERNALD, KUMAR, ZHAO, VICE MAYOR
FITZSIMMONS, MAYOR WALIA
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
Tina Walia, Mayor
ATTEST:
Britt Avrit, City Clerk
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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 2022-2023.
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