HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 2001-111B N.C.S. 06/04/2001
. Resolution No. 2001-111 B N.C.S.
of the City of Petaluma, California
ADOPTING REASSESSMENT REPORT, CONFIRMING AND ORDERING THE
REASSESSMENT PURSUANT TO SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS AND DIRECTING
ACTIONS WITH RESPECT THERETO
Assessment District No. 23, Redwood Business .Park 3
(Reassessment and Refunding of 2001)
RESOLVED, by the City Council (the "Council") of the City of Petaluma (the "City"),
County of Sonoma, (the "County") California:
WHEREAS, on June 4, 2001, this Council adopted the Resolution of Intention to Levy
Reassessments and to Issue Limited Obligation Refunding Improvement Bonds Upon the
Security Thereof (the "Resolution of Intention"), in and for the City's Assessment District No.
23, Redwood Business Park 3 (Reassessment and Refunding of 2001) (the "Assessment
District"), and therein directed the making and filing of a reassessment report (the "Report") in
writing in accordance with and pursuant to the Refunding Act of 1984 for 1915 Improvement Act
Bonds, Division 11.5 of the Streets and Highways Code of California (the "Act") which Report
includes reassessments for each of the individual assessment districts described in Exhibit A to
the Resolution of Intention; and
WHEREAS, the Report was duly made and filed, and duly considered by this Council
and found to be sufficient in every particular, and the Report shall stand for all subsequent
proceedings under and pursuant to the aforesaid Resolution of Intention.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDERED as follows:.
1. Conditions Satisfied. Under Section 9525 of the Act, and based upon the Report
this Council finds that all of the following conditions are satisfied that:
(a) Each of the estimated annual installments of principal and interest on the
reassessment as set forth in the Report is less than the corresponding annual installment
of principal and interest on the original assessment as also set forth in the Report, by the
same percentage for all subdivisions of land with the Assessment District;
(b) The number of years to maturity of all proposed refunding bonds or
separate series thereof proposed to be issued under the Resolution of Intention is not more
than the number of years to the last maturity of the bonds proposed to be refunded (the
"Prior Bonds"); and
(c) Except as expressly permitted by the Act, the principal amount of the
reassessment on each subdivision of land within the Assessment District is less than the
unpaid principal amount of the original assessment by the same percentage for each
subdivision of land in the Assessment District.
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2. Public Interest. The public interest, convenience and necessity require that the
reassessment be made.
3. Boundaries Approved. The Assessment District benefited by the reassessment
and to be reassessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, and the exterior boundaries thereof,
are as shown by the boundary map and reassessment diagram thereof on file in the office of the
City Clerk, which map and diagram are made a part hereof by this reference thereto. The
provisions of the above-referenced Resolution of Intention are hereby incorporated herein by this
reference and hereby made a part hereof.
4. Report Approved. Pursuant to the findings hereinabove expressed with respect to
Section 9525 of the Act, the conditions, and all of them are deemed satisfied and that the
following elements of the Report are hereby finally approved and confirmed without further
proceedings, including the conduct of a public hearing under the Act, to wit:
(a) a schedule setting forth the. unpaid principal and interest on the Prior
Bonds proposed to be refunded and the total amounts thereof;
(b) an estimate of the total principal amount of the reassessment and of the
refunding bonds and the maximum interest thereon, together with an estimate of cost of
the reassessment and of issuing the refunding bonds, including expenses incidental
thereto;
(c) the auditor's record kept pursuant to Section 8682 of the Streets and
Highways Code of California showing the schedule of principal installments and interest
on all unpaid original assessments and the total amounts thereof;
(d) the estimated amount of each reassessment, identified by reassessment
number corresponding to the reassessment number of the reassessment diagram, together
with a proposed auditor's record for the reassessment prepared in the manner described in
Section 8682; and
(e) a reassessment diagram showing the Assessment District and the
boundaries and dimensions of the subdivisions of land and the zones therein.
Final adoption and approval of the Report as a whole, estimate of the costs and expenses,
the reassessment diagram and the reassessment, as contained in the Report, as hereinabove
determined and ordered, is intended to and shall refer and apply to the 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.
5. Findings and Determinations. Based on the oral and documentary evidence,
including the Report, offered and received by the Council, this Council expressly finds and
determines:
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(a) that each of said several subdivisions of land within the Assessment
District will be .specially benefited by said reassessment at least in the amount,. if not
more than the amount, of the reassessment apportioned against the subdivisions of land,
respectively;
(b) there is substantial evidence to support, and the weight of the evidence.
preponderates in favor of, the above finding and determination as to special benefits; and
(c) the reassessment approved and confirmed under Section 9525 of the Act
shall not be deemed an assessment and, therefore, is ordered without compliance with the
procedural requirements of Article X» of the California Constitution.
6. Reassessment Levy. The reassessment, including all costs and expenses thereof,
is hereby levied. [The original assessments, as shown in the Report, are hereby superseded and
supplanted by the reassessment herein levied. Under the Act, reference is hereby made to the
Resolution of Intention for further particulars.
7. Recordings Directed. The City Clerk shall forthwith cause:
(a) the reassessment to be delivered to the official of the City who is the
Superintendent of Streets of the City, together with the reassessment diagram, as
approved and confirmed by this Council, with a certificate of such confirmation. and of
the date thereof, executed by the Clerk, attached thereto. The Superintendent of Streets
shall record the reassessment acid reassessment diagram in a suitable book to be kept for
that purpose, and append thereto a certificate of the date of such recording, and such
recordation shall be and constitute the reassessment roll herein;
(b) a copy of the boundary map and the reassessment diagram and a notice of
reassessment, substantially in the form specified in Section 3114 of the Streets and
Highways Code of California and executed by the Clerk, to be filed and recorded,
respectively, in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Sonoma; and
(c) a copy of this resolution to be provided to the Auditor of the County of
Sonoma upon delivery of the debt service records for the reassessments.
From the date of recording of the notice of reassessment, all persons shall be deemed to
have notice of the contents of such reassessment, and each of such reassessments shall thereupon
be a lien upon the property against which it is made, and unless sooner discharged such liens
shall so continue for the period of ten (10) years from the date of said recordation, or in the event
bonds are 'issued to represent the reassessments, then such liens shall continue until the expiration
of four (4) years after the due date of the last installment upon such bonds or of the last
installment of principal of such bonds.
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The appropriate officer or officers of the City are hereby authorized to pay any and all
fees required by law in connection with the above.
8. Effective Date. This resolution shall take effect-upon the date of its adoption.
Under the power and authority conferred upon this Council by the Charter of said City.
REFERENCE: I hereby certify the foregoing Resolution was introduced and adopted by the
Council of the City of Petaluma at a Regular meeting on June 4, 2001,
by the following vote: Approved as to
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City Attorney
AYES: O'Brien, Healy, Torliatt, Maguire, Vice Mayor Cader-Thompson
NOES: None
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: Moynihan, M T mpson
ATTEST:
~0 ayor
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