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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 2331F017-36 WMAM:JEB:c~w 05/16/86 12c RESOLUTION NO. 2331F A RESOLUTION OVERRULING PROTESTS AND ORDERING THE ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY TO AN EXISTING ASSESSMEN~ DISTRICT, ORDERING THE IMPROVEMENTS AND CONFIRMING THE DIAGRAM AND ASSESSMENT CITY OF SARATOGA LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING DISTRICT LLA-1 ANNEXATION 1986-1 FISCAL YEAR 1986 - 1987 RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saratoga, California, as follows: WHEREAS, on the 16th day of April, 1986, said Council adopted its Resolution No. 2331, Determining to Undertake Proceedings for the Annexation of Territory to an Existing Assessment District Known as "City of Saratoga Landscaping and Lighting District LLA-I" Pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, and directed the City Engineer (herein the "Engineer") to prepare and file with the Clerk of this City a written report called for under said Act and by said Resolution No. 2331; WHEREAS, said report was duly made and filed with the Clerk of said City, whereupon said Clerk presented it to this Council for its consideration~ j 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 and said Resolution No. 2331, including (1) plans and specifications of the existing improvements and the proposed improvements; (2) estimate of costs; (3) diagram showing the exterior boundaries of the area proposed to be annexed to the existing assessment district, which is also the area proposed to be assessed; and (4) an assessment according to benefits; all of which were 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 requirements of said Act, appointed Wednesday, the 2nd day of July, 1986, at the hour of 7:00 o'clock p.m. of said day in the regular meeting place of said Council, City .Hall, 13777 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga, California 95070, as the time and place for hearing protests in relation to the annexation of ,territory to an existing assessment district and the levy and collection of the proposed assessment pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, and to said proposed improvements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, and directing said City Clerk to give notice of said hearing as required by said Act; WHEREAS, it appears that notices of said hearing were duly and regularly published and mailed in the time, form and manner required by said =Act, as evidenced by-the Affidavits and Certificates on file with. said Clerk, whereupon said hearing was duly and regularly held at the time and place stated in said notice; and WHEREAS, persons interested, objecting to the annexation of territorV to an exi. stinq assessment district, or of said ~mprouements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, of to the extent of the proposed assessment district, or anV zones therein, or to the proposed assessment or diagram or to the Engineer's estimate of costs thereof, filed written protests with the Clerk of said City at or before the conclusion of said hearing, and all persons interested desiring to be heard were given an opportunity to be heard, and all matters and things pertaining to the annexation of territorV to said existing assessment district and said improvements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, were fully heard and considered by said Council; NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY FOUND, DETERMINED and ORDERED, as follows: 1. That protests against the annexation of territory to said existing assessment district or of said improvements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, or to the extent of the assessment district or any zones therein, or to the proposed assessment or diagram, or to the Enqineer's estimate of costs thereof, were not signed by the owners of a majority or more of the area of assessable lands within said territory proposed to be annexed and assessed herein, and that said protests be, and each of them are hereby, overruled. 2. That the public interest, convenience and necessity require the annexation of territory to an existing assessment district and the levy and collection of assessments pursuant to said Act, for the construction or installation of the improvements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, more particularly described in said Engineer's Report and made a part hereof by reference thereto, which annexation is hereby ordered. 3. That the annexed territorV and the boundaries thereof benefited and to be assessed for said costs for the construction or installation of the improvements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, are situate in the City of Saratoga, California, and are more particulariV described by reference to a map thereof on file in the office of the Clerk of said City. Said map indicates by a boundary line the extent of the annexed territory included in said assessment district, and of any zone thereof and the general location thereof. -2- 4. That said annexed territory be, and it is hereby, designated as "City of Saratoga Landscaping and Lighting District LLA-1 Annexation 1986-1" by which name it may hereafter be referred to. 5. That the plans and specifications for the existing improvements and for the proposed improvements to be made within said assessment district or within any zone thereof contained in said report, be, and they are hereby, finally adopted and approved. 6. That the Engineer's estimate of the itemized and total costs and expenses of said improvements, maintenance and servicing thereof, and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith, contained in said report, be,'and it is hereby, finally adopted and approved. 7. That the public interest and convenience require, and said Council does hereby order the improvements to be made as described in and in accordance with said Engineer's Report, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description of said improvements. 8. That the diagram showing the exterior boundaries of the annexed territory referred to and described in said Resolution No. 2331, and also the boundaries of any zones therein and the lines and dimensions of each lot or parcel of land within said annexed territory as such lot or parcel of land is shown on the County Assessor's maps for the fiscal year to which it applies, each of which lot or parcel of land has been given a separate number upon said diagram, as contained in said report, be, and it is hereby, fina].ly approved and confirmed. g. That the assessment of the total amount of the costs and expenses of the proposed improvements upon the several lots or parcels of land in said annexed territory in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by such lots or parcels, respectively, from said improvements, including the maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, and of the expenses incidental thereto, contained in said report, be, and the same is hereby, finally approved and confirmed. 10. That said Engineer's Report be, and the same is hereby, finally adopted and approved as a whole. 1l. That the City Clerk shall forthwith file with the Auditor of Santa Clara County the said assessment, together with said diagram thereto attached and made a part thereof, as confirmed by the City Council, with the certificate of such confirmation thereto attached and of the date thereof. -3- 12. That the order ordering the annexation of territory to an existing assessment ~ist[ict and the final adoption and approval of the Enginee['s Report as a whole, and of the plans and specifications, estimate of the costs and expenses, the diagram, the assessment, as contained in said Report, as hereinabove dete[mined and orde[ed, is intended to and shall refer and apply to said ~epo~t, or any portion thereof, as amended, modified, revised or corrected by, or pursuant to and in accordance with any resolution or order, if any, he[etofo[e duly adopted or made by this Council. I hereby certi[V 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 2~_d .... daV of J_u!_~ , 1986__, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES, and in favo~ thereof, Council Members: , Member s: None ABSENT, Council Members: Nc~e APPROVED: -4-