CITY OF FAIRFIELD
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-34
AUTHORIZING AN UPDATE TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 BUDGET FOR LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NOS. 2023-1 (GATEWAY) AND 2023-11 (PARADISE VALLEY)
WHEREAS, on June 7, 2023, the City formed Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District Nos. 2023-1 ( Gateway) (LLMD No. 2023 -1) and 2023-11 (Paradise Valley) (LLMD No. 2023 -11) to provide landscaping and lighting maintenance services in each community beginning July 1, 2023; and
WHEREAS, the 1972 Landscaping and Lighting Act (1972 Act) and Article XIII D of the California Constitution, also known as Proposition 218, require that the City develop an annual engineer’s report to justify and support assessments levied upon district properties; and
WHEREAS, assessments are paid by property owners to finance all administrative costs and all direct operating costs attributable to improvements that confer a special benefit upon individual properties; and
WHEREAS, the City is responsible for making General Benefit Contributions to each district to finance the portion of direct operating costs attributable to improvements that confer a general benefit to the public at-large; and
WHEREAS, City staff costs for both Public Works Engineering staff and Public Works Operations staff were aggregated under the administrative costs category of expen ses in fiscal year (FY) 2023-2024 and FY 2024-2025; and
WHEREAS, Public Works Operations staff costs are more suitably classified under the direct operating costs category of expenses to be shared by property owners and the City; and
WHEREAS, the council wishes to adjust the FY 2023 -2024 and FY 2024 -2025 General Benefit Contributions to LLMD No. 2023-1 and LLMD No. 2023-11 to defray the financial burden placed on district property owners; and
WHEREAS, the one-time General Fund Contribution was not appropriated in the FY 2023-2024 and FY 2024-2025 Budget, thus requiring a budget adjustment from the General Fund (Fund 101) to LLMD No. 2023-1 (Fund 187) of $9,603 and to LLMD No. 2023-11 (Fund 188) of $39,532; and
WHEREAS, the revised appropriation constitutes an update to the FY 2024-2025 Budget approved pursuant to Resolution No. 2023-149.
RES. NO. 2025-34
NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD HEREBY RESOLVES:
Section 1. The council hereby approves a one-time budget adjustment of $9,603 ($4,015 for a retroactive adjustment to the FY 2023 -2024 General Fund Contribution and $5,588 for an adjustment to the FY 2024 -2025 General Fund Contribution) from the General Fund (Fund 101) to the FY 2024-2025 LLMD No. 2023-1 operating budget (Fund 187).
Section 2. The council hereby approves a one-time budget adjustment of $39,532 ($13,063 for a retroactive adjustment to the FY 20 23-2024 General Fund Contribution and $26,469 for an adjustment to the FY 2024 -2025 General Fund Contribution) from the General Fund (Fund 101) to the FY 2024-2025 LLMD No. 2023-11 operating budget (Fund 188).
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 4th day of March 2025, by the following vote:
AYES: MEMBERS: MOY/BERTANI/CARR/PANDURO/SANDHU/TONNESEN/WILLIAMS NOES: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________ ABSENT: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________ ABSTAIN: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________
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MAYOR
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CITY CLERK