PARADISE VALLEY MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING DISTRICT
RESOLUTION NO. PVMMD 2025-02
APPROVING THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 BUDGET AND ORDERING THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 ASSESSMENTS FOR THE PARADISE VALLEY MAINTENANCE
AND MONITORING DISTRICT
WHEREAS, on July 6, 2010, the City of Fairfield City Council adopted Resolution 2010 -188, approving and ordering the formation of the Paradise Valley Maintenance and Monitoring District (PVMMD or District), a Geologic Hazard Abatement District within the meaning o f California Public Resources Code (PRC) Division 17, and appointing itself as the board of directors of the PVMMD (PVMMD Board). This formation was described in the Petition for Formation and in the PVMMD Plan of Control; and
WHEREAS, in order to pay for the cost and expenses of maintaining and operating the improvements for the District as described in the Plan of Control, pursuant to PRC sections 26500 et seq., it will be necessary to provide a reliable source of funding; and
WHEREAS, PRC sections 2665 0 et seq. authorize, after a noticed public hearing, the levy and collection of an assessment upon specially benefited property within the PVMMD to pay for the maintenance and operation of PVMMD improvements. Article XIII (D) of the California Constitution imposes additional requirements for the levy and collection of said assessment; and
WHEREAS, an Engineer’s Report dated July 2010, was prepared by ENGEO Incorporated (ENGEO), a registered professional engineer certified in the State of California, in com pliance with Public Resources Code section 26651 (a) and section 4(b) of Article XIII(D) of the California Constitution.
The Engineer’s Report sets forth the purpose of the PVMMD, the estimated budget, the total assessment, the proposed estimate to be levi ed against each parcel within such territory, and a description of the method used in formulating the estimated assessments; and
WHEREAS, on October 5, 2010, the City of Fairfield City Council, acting as the PVMMD Board, adopted Resolution 2010 -274, appro ving the initial assessments against those parcels in the PVMMD as identified on the boundary map, which are specially benefited by the PVMMD; and
WHEREAS, on July 5, 2022, the PVMMD Board adopted Resolution No. PVMMD 2022 -01 approving an updated Plan of Control, Reserve Fund Study establishing a District reserve goal of $1,570,000 (in FY 2022-2023 dollars), and Engineer’s Report dated July 6, 2022 (2022 Engineer’s Report) prepared by ENGEO; and
WHEREAS, the PVMMD Board desires to adopt the budget, approve the assessments to be levied against each assessable parcel in the District, and approve the method used in formulating the assessments for fiscal year (FY) 2025-2026 to allow for funding of District activities; and RES. NO. 2025-02
WHEREAS, a Supplement to the 2022 Engineer’s Report for FY 202 5-2026 (FY 202 5-2026 Supplement) has been prepared by a registered professional engineer for the PVMMD; and
WHEREAS, on May 20, 2025, by its Resolution No. PVMMD 2025-01, a resolution of the PVMMD Board granting preliminarily approval of the FY 202 5-2026 budget, declaring intent to order the levy and collection of FY 202 5-2026 assessments, and providing notice of the June 1 7, 2025, public hearing, the Board found the FY 202 5-2026 Supplement, duly ma de and filed with the clerk, to be sufficient in every particular, whereupon it was determined that the report should stand as the FY 2025-2026 Supplement for all subsequent proceedings under and pursuant to the aforesaid resolution; and
WHEREAS, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 6:00 p.m., in the regular meeting place of this PVMMD Board, the City of Fairfield Council Chamber, Civic Center, 1000 Webster Street, Fairfield, California or in any other manner as specified on the regular meeting agenda, was appoi nted as the time and place for a hearing of this PVMMD Board on the question of the levy of the proposed assessment, notice of which hearing was duly and regularly mailed; and
WHEREAS, at the appointed time and place, the hearing was duly and regularly held, and all persons interested desiring to be heard were given an opportunity to give testimony, and all matters and things pertaining to the levy were fully heard and considered by this PVMMD Board, and all oral statements and all written protests or communications were duly heard, considered, and overruled, and this PVMMD Board thereby acquired jurisdiction to order the levy and collection of the assessments as contained in said FY 2025-2026 Supplement.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD HEREBY RESOLVES:
Section 1. The public interest, convenience, and necessity require that the levy be made.
Section 2. The district benefited by the monitoring, inspections, and repair of improvements installed and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, and the exterior boundaries thereof, are as shown by a map thereof filed in the office of the clerk, which map is made a part hereof by reference thereto.
Section 3. The FY 2025-2026 Supplement, as a whole and each part thereof, are hereby finally approved and confirmed, to wit:
a. The estimate of the itemized and total costs and expense of maintaining and operating the improvements and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith. b. The assessment of the total amo unt of the cost and expenses of the proposed monitoring, inspections, and repair of improvements upon the lots and parcels of land in the district in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by such lots and RES. NO. 2025-02
parcels, respectively, from the maint enance and operation, and of the expenses incidental thereto.
Section 4. Final adoption and approval of the FY 202 5-2026 Supplement, as a whole and of the plans and specifications, estimate of the costs and expenses, and the assessment, as contained in the FY 202 5-2026 Supplement, as hereinabove determined and ordered, is intended to and shall refer and apply to the FY 2025-2026 Supplement, or any portion thereof.
Section 5. The annual assessments for FY 2025-2026 are proposed at the rates shown on Exhibit A. These rates do not exceed the FY 202 5-2026 maximum annual assessment rates established in 2010 and adjusted annually by the San Francisco-Oakland-hayward Consumers Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
Section 6. The assessment to pay the costs and expenses of the maintenance and operation of the improvements is hereby confirmed , and the levy and collection of the assessment for FY 2025-2026, pursuant to Public Resources Code sections 26650 et seq., is hereby ordered.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1st day of July 2025, by the following vote:
AYES: MEMBERS: MOY/BERTANI/CARR/PANDURO/SANDHU/TONNESEN/WILLIAMS NOES: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________ ABSENT: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________ ABSTAIN: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________
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CHAIR
ATTEST:
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BOARD CLERK