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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 888-J· t933A-' ~Sa WM.AM= PDA: rva 01/1.L./79 12C RESOLUTION NO. 888-J A RESOLUTION AND ORDER ADOPTING ENGINEER'S REPORT, CONFIRMING THE ASSESSMENT AND ORDERING THE WORK AND ACQUISITIONS VILLAGE PARKING DISTRICT NO. 2 ASSESSMENT DISTRICT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, that WHEREAS, on the 3rd day of January, 1979, said Council adopted its Resolution of Intention No. 888-D, to acquire public improvements in said City, and referred the proposed acquisitions to the Engineer of Work of said City, he being the officer having charge and control of the acquisitions and construction of public improvements in and for said City of the kind described in said Resolution of Intention, and being a competent person appointed by said City for that purpose; WHEREAS, said Council thereby directed said Engineer of Work to make and file with the City Clerk of said City, a report in writing in accordance with and pursuant to the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, Division 12 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California; WHEREAS, said'report was duly made and filed with the City Clerk, whereupon the Clerk presented it to this Council'for consideration; WHEREAS, said 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, including (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 and said Resolution of Intention, whereupon said Council, pursuant to the requirements of said Act, appointed Wednesday, the 7th day of February, 1979, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock p.m. of said day in the regular meeting place of said Council, Council Chambers, City Hall, 13777 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, California, as the time and place for hearing protests in relation to said acquisitions and directing the Clerk of said City to give notice of 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 certificates and affidavits on file with said Clerk, whereupon said hearing was duly and regularly held at the time and place advertised in said notices; and WHEREAS, persons interested objecting to said acquisitions, or to the extent of the assessment district, or to the proposed assessment or diagram, or to the grades at which said work will be done, or the Engineer's estimate of the costs and expenses thereof, or to the maps and descriptions, filed written protests with the Clerk of said City at or before the time set for said 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 were fully heard and considered by said Council, and were overruled, and said Council has acquired jurisdiction to order said acquisitions 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 of the property to -2- be assessed for the cost of said project did not, at or prior to the time fixed for said hearing, file written protests against said proposed acquisitions as a whole, or against said district or the extent thereof to be assessed for the costs and expenses of said acquisitions as a whole, or as to the Engineer's estimate of costs and expenses of said project, or against the grades at which said work is proposed to be done, or against the maps and descriptions, or against the diagram and assessment to pay for the costs and expenses thereof. 2. That any and all protests made either to said proposed acquisitions, or the grades at which said work is proposed to be done, or the extent of the assessment district, or the amounts of the several assessments, or the maps and descriptions, and all persons desiring to be heard in relation to any of said matters, whether as protestants or otherwise, have been fully heard and considered, and have been overruled. 3. That the district benefited by said acquisitions'and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, and the exterior boundaries thereof, is the district described in said Resolution of Intention and made a part hereof by reference thereto. 4. 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. 5. That the Engineer's estimate of the itemized and total costs and expenses of said acquisitions, and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith, contained in said report, be, and it is hereby, finally adopted and approved as the Engineer's total and detailed estimate of the costs and expenses of said acquisitions. 6. That the plans and specifications for the proposed improvements contained in said report, be, and they are hereby, -3- finally adopted and approved as the plans and specifications to which said work shall be done as called for in said Resolution of Intention. 7. That the public interest and convenience require, and said Council does hereby order the acquisitions to be made and done as described in and in accordance with said Resolution of Intention on file in the office of the Clerk of said City, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description of said acquisitions and for further particulars pursuant to the provisions of said Act. 8. 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 subdivisions having been given a separate number upon said diagram as contained in said report, be, and it is hereby, finally approved and confirmed as the diagram of the properties to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses of said acquisitions. 9. That the assessment of the total amount of the costs and expenses of the proposed acquisitions 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 of the expenses incidental thereto, as contained in said report, be, and the same is hereby, finally approved and confirmed as the assessment to pay the costs and expenses of said acquisitions. 10. That the maps and descriptions of the acquisitions to be made, as contained in said report, be, and the same are hereby, approved and confirmed. 11. That said Engineer's Report be, and the same is hereby, finally adopted and approved as a whole. 12. That the Clerk of this City shall forthwith deliver to the -4- Superintendent of Streets of said City the assessment, together with said diagram thereto attached and made a part thereof as confirmed by this Council, with her certificate of such confirmation thereto attached and of the date thereof, and that said Superintendent of Streets shall forthwith 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 therein. 13. That the Collection Officer, upon the recording of said diagram and assessment, shall, upon further order of this Council, cause to be mailed 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, 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 sufficient to enable the owner to identify the same, the amount of the assessment, the date of the recordation of said 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 unpaid assessments pursuant to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, Division 10 of said Streets and Highways Code, or, in the event there are unpaid assessments upon publicly owned operative property that bonds or certificates will be issued on unpaid assessments pursuant to Section 10206 of said Streets and Highways Code and in the manner provided in Section 6467 or Chapter 4.5, (commencing with Section 6468) Part 5, Division 7 of said Streets and Highways Code, Improvement Act of 1911. 14. That said Collection Officer shall, upon further order of this Council, also cause Notice to Pay Assessments to be published in two successive issues of the Saratoga News, a newspaper published and circulated in said County, there being no newspaper published in -5- said City, that said assessment has been recorded and that all sums assessed thereon are due and payable immediately and that the payment of said sums is to be made within thirty (30) days after the date of the order of said Council but in not event less than thirty (30) days after the date of recording said assessment, which date shall be stated in said notice, the effect of the failure to pay assessments within the 30 day period, and of the fact that bonds will be issued upon unpaid assessments as above provided. Said publication shall be made once a week for two successive weeks with at least five days intervening between the respective publication dates, not counting such publication dates. 15. That final adoption and approval of the Engineer's Report as a whole, and of the plans and specifications, estimate of the costs and expenses, maps and descriptions of the lands and easements to be acquired, the diagram and the assessment, as contained in said Report, as hereinabove determined and ordered, is intended to and shall refer and apply to said Report, or any portion thereof, as amended, modified, revised or corrected by', or pursuant to and in accordance with any resolution or order, if any, heretofore duly adopted or made by this Council. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, at a meeting thereof held on the 7th day of February, 1979, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Kraus, Corr, Callon, Kalb,& Matteoni NOES, Councilmen: None ABSENT, Councilmen: None City Cle of Saratoga (SEAL) APPR : tayor -6-