HERCULES CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. ___
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HERCULES APPROVING THE FISCAL YEAR 2026-27 WRITTEN REPORT AND AUTHORIZING THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF SEWER SERVICE CHARGES ON THE CONTRA COSTA COUNTY TAX ROLL IN THE SAME MANNER, BY THE SAME PERSONS, AND AT THE SAME TIME AS, TOGETHER WITH AND NOT SEPARATELY FROM, GENERAL TAXES WHEREAS, on July 22, 2025, the City Council of the City of Hercules (“City”) passed Resolution 25-044, approving updated rates for sewer collection, treatment, and disposal service; and WHEREAS, the sewer service charges were adopted in compliance with Article XIIID, Section 6 of the California Constitution, Government Code section 53750 et seq., and Health and Safety Code section 5471; and WHEREAS, the City would like to continue imposing the previously adopted sewer service charges on an annual basis by collecting the sewer service charges for those customers on the Contra Costa County tax roll pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 5473 et seq.; and WHEREAS, the City prepared a written report for Fiscal Year 2026-2027 (“Report”), which contains a description of each parcel of real property that receives sewerage services from the City’s sewerage facilities and the amount of the sewer service charge for each of those parcels for Fiscal Year 2026-2027, computed in conformity with the sewer service charges set by Resolution 25-044; and WHEREAS, the Report was filed with the City Clerk on June 30, 2026, and has been available to the public; and WHEREAS, at its meeting on July 14, 2026, after duly publishing all required notices, the City Council held a public hearing to consider the Report and heard all objections or protests to the Report, if any.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Hercules as follows:
The recitals set forth above are true and correct and are hereby incorporated herein by this reference as if fully set forth in their entirety.
The City Council finds and determines that notice of the filing of the Report and of the time and place of the hearing thereon was provided in accordance with Health and Safety Code Sections 5473.1.
After hearing and considering all objections or protests to the Report, if any, the City Council finds that protest was not made by a majority of the separate parcels of property described in the Report, overrules all objections or protests to the report, and hereby adopts the Report.
The sewer service charges listed in the Report shall be collected on the tax roll in the same manner, by the same persons, and at the same time as, together with and not separately from, the general taxes for Fiscal Year 2026-2027.
The County Controller of the County of Contra Costa is hereby authorized to collect the sewer service charges listed in the Report on the tax roll.
This resolution shall take effect immediately.
The foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Hercules held on the 14th day of July, 2026 by the following vote of the Council:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
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Chris Kelley, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Eibleis Melendez, City Clerk
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