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RESOLUTION OF INTENTION NO. 2235
A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION PRELIMINARILY ADOPTING,
CONFIRMING, AND APPROVING THE PUBLIC WORKS
DIRECTOR'S REPORT FOR THE CONSOLIDA TED MAINTENANCE
DISTRICT AND T HE 2025-2026 BUDGET AND SETTING THE TIME
AND PLACE FOR HEARING PR OTESTS REGARDING THE
AMOUNT OF PARK LANDSCAPING ASSESSMENTS TO BE
LEVIED THROUGHOUT THE CONSOLIDATED MAINTENANCE
DISTRICT. (ALL WARDS)
WHEREAS, Chapter 13.04 of Title 13 of the Municipal Code of the City of Bakersfield provides for an alternative procedure by which the City Council may provide for the payment of the whole or any part of the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating any public improvements which are local in nature, from annual benefit assessments apportioned among the several lots or parcels of property within the maintenance district established therefore; and
WHEREAS, the Public Works Director has on this date filed with the Clerk of said Council his Report, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit "1", which includes the following attachments:
a) The benefit formula, attached to the Director’s Report as Exhibit "A”;
b) The proposed 2025-2026 budget, containing the matters specified in Section 13.04.120 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code, attached to the Director’s Report as Exhibit "B"; and
WHEREAS, t he amount of assessment to be levied against each parcel within the Consolidated Maintenance District is on file in CD format with the office of Public Works Subdivisions.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Bakersfield, State of California, as follows:
1. The foregoing recitals are true and correct and are incorporated herein.
2. The City Council hereby reserves the right to perform the work of maintenance and operation of the public improvements within the Consolidated Maintenance District by City forces or by private contractor.
Such determination and election is to be made for each year at the time the budget and assessment is approved for the year in question.
3. The City Council hereby preliminarily adopts and approves the Public Works Director's Report and declares that the territories within the boundaries so specified and described in the Consolid ated Maintenance District benefit from said local improvements; that the expense of maintaining and operating said improvements is hereby made assessable upon said S:\PROJECTS\MAINDIST\2025-2026 MD Info\Folder for City Info\CSMD\Park Landscaping\ROI 2235 Park.docx
territories, as previously passed by their respective Council Resolutions and are now on file with those Resolutions in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield, California.
4. The City Council hereby sets WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2025, AT 5:15 P.M., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, at the Council Chambers of the City Council, 1501 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California, as the time and place for hearing protests on the following matters:
Fairness of the benefit formula;
Zone of benefit including tier level;
The amount of the park landscaping assessment on any parcel of property to be assessed; and
Reservation by city of right to elect whether to proceed to perform work by city forces or by private contractor.
Any interested person may object to any of the above- listed matters by filing a written protest with the City Clerk at 1 600 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California, at or before said time set for the protest hearing; and said City Clerk shall endorse on each protest the date and hour of its receipt, and at said hearing shall present to the Council all such protests filed with said Clerk.
5. The City Clerk is hereby further directed to cause notice of said protest hearing to be published in a ccordance with Chapter 13.04 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution of Intention was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on _________________________________, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBER ARIAS, GONZALES, WEIR, SMITH, KOMAN, BASHIRTASH, KAUR
NOES: COUNCILMEMBER
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBER
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER
_______________________________________
JULIE DRIMAKIS, MMC
ACTING CITY CLERK and Ex Officio
Clerk of the Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED _______________________
By: _______________________________
KAREN GOH
MAYOR of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED as to form:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
CITY ATTORNEY
By: ________________________________
VIRIDIANA GALLARDO-KING
Deputy City Attorney II
Attachments:
Exhibit 1 - Director’s Report
Exhibit A - Director’s Report Benefit Formula
Exhibit B - Director’s Report Budget