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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 00-193 N.C.S. 10/16/2000 Resolution No. 00-193 N.C.S. of the City of Petaluma, -California PRELIMINARILY APPROVING ENGINEER'S REPORT AND DIRECTING ACTIONS WITH RESPECT THERETO ASSESSMENT DISTRICT 2000-01 (MCDOWELL/E. WASHINGTON) RESOLVED, by the City Council (the "Council") of the City of Petaluma (the "City"), County of Sonoma, (the "County") California: L Resolution of Intention. On October 16, 2000, this Council adopted its Resolution of Intention to Make Acquisitions and Improvements, (the "Resolution of Intention") under the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, Division 12 of the Streets and Highways Code of California, (the "Act") to initial proceedings under the Act. in and for the City's Assessment District 2000-01 (McDowelUE. Washington) (the "Assessment District"). 2. Engineer's Report. The Resolution of Intention referred the acquisitions and improvements described therein to the person designated therein as the Engineer of Work and directed the Engineer of Work to prepare and file with the City Clerk a report (the "Engineer's Report") pursuant to the Act and containing information set forth in the Resolution of Intention, to which reference is hereby made for further particulars. 3. Engineer's Report Preliminarily Approved. The Engineer of Work has prepared and filed the Engineer's Report with the City Clerk, and this Council with the aid of City staff has reviewed the Engineer's Report, and hereby finds it to be sufficient for, and that it shall stand for purposes of subsequent proceedings for the Assessment District and the Engineer's Report is hereby preliminarily approved. 4. Public Hearing. Pursuant to the Act, this Council hereby orders that a public hearing shall be held before this Council, in the regular meeting place thereof, City Council Chambers, City Hall, 11 English Street, Petaluma, California on Monday, December 4, 2000, at the hour of 7:00 p.m. for the purposes of this Council's determination whether the public interest, convenience and necessity require the acquisitions and improvements, whether the properties in the Assessment District are specially benefited by the acquisitions and improvements, the tabulation of special assessment ballots and the determination of the existence of any majority protest and this Council's final action upon the. Engineer's Report and the assessments therein.. The public hearing may be continued from time to time as determined by the Council. 5. Notice. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed. to cause notice of the hearing ordered under Section 4 hereof to be given by mailing, postage prepaid, in the United States mail, and such notice shall be deemed to have been given when so deposited in such mail. The envelope or cover of the mailing shall include the name of the City and the return address of the City Clerk as the sender. The mailed notice shall be given to all property owners within the Assessment District as shown in the Engineer's Report by such mailing byname to those persons whose names and addresses appear on the least equalized assessment roll of the County of Sonoma or the State Board of Equalization assessment roll, as the case maybe. The amount of the proposed assessment for each parcel shall be calculated and Reso. 00-193 NCS ~ Page 1 the record owner of each parcel shall be given written notice by mail of the proposed assessment, the total amount thereof chargeable to the entire Assessment District, the amount chargeable to the owner's particular parcel, the anticipate duration of payments for the assessment if bonded, the reason for such assessment and the basis upon which the amount of the proposed assessment was calculated. Each such mailed notice to owners shall contain a ballot which includes the City's address for receipt of completed ballots showing the owner's name, identification of the parcel and support or opposition to the proposed assessment. Each notice shall include, in a conspicuous place, a summary of the procedures applicable to the completion, return.. and tabulation of ballots, including adisclosure-that the existence of a majority protest (wherebyballots submitted in opposition exceed those submitted in favor ofthe assessment, with ballots weighed according to proportional financial obligation of the affected property) will result in the assessment not being imposed. The notice herein provided shall be mailed not less than forty-five (45) days before the date of the public hearing ordered under Section 4 hereof. 6. Ballots. The City Clerk shall maintain a separate and secure file for the safekeeping of the assessment ballots as they are received and pending tabulation. Ballots shall be received up to the time of the closing of the public hearing. 7. Boundary Map. The proposed boundaries of the proposed Assessment District are hereby described as shown. on a map thereof on fle in the office of the City Clerk (the "Boundary Map"), which indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory to be included in the proposed Assessment District and which Boundary Map shall govern for all details for further purposes of the proceedings for the Assessment District and to which reference is hereby made for further particulars. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to endorse upon the original and at least one copy of the Boundary Map the date of the filing thereof and date and adoption of this resolution and to cause of copy of the Boundary Map to be filed with the CountyRecorder of the County of Sonoma, in which all of the proposed Assessment District is located, within fifteen (15) days of the adoption of this resolution, but in no event later than fifteen (15) days before the date of the public hearing ordered under Section 4 hereof. The County Recorder shall endorse upon the Boundary Map the time and date of filing and shall fasten the same securely in a book of maps of assessment and community facilities districts, which the County Recorder shall keep in his or her office. The County Recorder shall index the Boundary Map by the name of the City and by the distinctive designation of the proposed Assessment District. 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 Approved as to Council of the City of Petaluma at a Regular meeting on October 16, 2000, by the following vote: City Attorney AYES: Cader-Thompson, Keller, Maguire, Hanulton, Vice Mayor Torliatt, Mayor Thompson NOES: None ABSENT: Healy ATTEST: - City Cle Mayor Reso. 00-193 NCS Page 2