NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
CITY OF RIALTO
Community Facilities District No. 2020-1 (El Rancho Verde) Date of Public Hearing: September 13, 2022
The City Council of the City of Rialto, acting as the legislative body of the City of Rialto Community Facilities District No. 2020-1 (El Rancho Verde) (the “Legislative Body”), gives notice that the Legislative Body has adopted the following entitled resolution on August 9, 2022 (the “Resolution”):
RESOLUTION OF CONSIDERATION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RIALTO, CALIFORNIA, ACTING AS THE LEGISLATIVE BODY OF THE CITY OF RIALTO COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT NO. 2020 -1 (EL
RANCHO VERDE), DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO MODIFY THE RATE
AND METHOD OF APPORTIONMENT OF THE SPECIAL TAX RELATING
TO SAID COMMUNITY F ACILITIES DISTRICT, ELIMINATE THE
DESIGNATION OF IMPROVEMENT AREAS, REMOVE TERRITORY FROM
THE BOUNDARIES OF THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT,
INCREASE THE SPECIAL TAX RATES, INCREASE THE MAXIMUM
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS, AND REVISE THE APPROPRIATIONS LIMIT
OF SAID COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT, AND OTHER RELATED
ACTIONS IN CONNECTION THERETO
The Resolution was adopted pursuant the Mello- Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, Sections 53311 et seq., of the California Government Code (the “Act”). Reference is hereby made to the Resolution on file with the City Clerk for further particulars at 150 South Palm Avenue, Rialto, California 92376. Further, the following summary of the Resolution does not purport to be comprehensive or definitive, and reference should be made to the Resolution for full and complete details.
In the Resolution, the Legislative Body states its intention to modify the City of Rialto Community Facilities District No. 2020-1 (El Rancho Verde) (the “ District”) to (A) eliminate the designation of improvement areas; (B) modify the original rates and methods of apportionment to consolidate into one rate and method of apportionment and increase certain special tax rates to finance (i) the public facilities of the City and West Valley Water District and development impact fees and other fees of both entities which pay for numerous facilities, including but not limited to regional and local street improvements, fire facilities, library facilities, water and wastewater facilities (the “Facilities”), (ii) various City services, including police, fire, maintenance of parks, sidewalks, etc. (the “Services”) ; and ( iii) the incidental expenses incurred in connection with financing the Facilities and Services, and forming and administering the Di strict (the “Incidental Expenses”); (C) increase the maximum bonded indebtedness for the District to not to exceed $50 million; (D) modify the boundaries of the District to eliminate certain non -taxable property; and (E) revise the appropriations limit for the District, all of which are subject to a public hearing and landowner election proceedings, all as provided in the Act. Copies of the amended boundary map, amended rate and method of apportionment of the special taxes for the Services and Facilities and exhibits to the Resolution are on file in the office of the City Clerk.
On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon as possible thereafter, in the City Council Chambers located at City Hall, 150 S. Palm Avenue, Rialto, CA 92376, the City Council will hold a public hearing on the modifications to the District.
At the hearing, the testimony of all interested persons (including all property owners in the District and anyone registered to vote in District) for and against the modifications to the District will be heard. If you wish to legally challenge any action taken by the City on the above matter, you may be l imited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing. Written comments may be submitted prior to the public hea ring to the City Clerk at the above address. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the City may limit the ability of interested persons to physically appear at the time and place set forth above and provide alternative means for interested persons to observe and be heard consistent with Governor Newsom’s Executive Orders N-29-20 and N-63-20, or any other Executive Orders that may exist at the time of the Hearing.
If the greater of 50 percent or more of the registered voters, or six registered voters, residing within the District, or the owners of one-half or more of the area of the land in the District that are not otherwise exempt from special taxes, file written protests against the modifications to the District and protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the value of the protests to less than a majority, no further proceedings to modify the District shall be taken for a period of one year from the date of the decision of the legislative body.
If the majority protests of the registered voters or of the landowne rs are only against the furnishing of a specified modification within the D istrict, those specified modifications shall be eliminated from the resolution of change . If no majority protest exists, the Legislative Body shall provide for an election related to modifications to the District.
The voting procedure with respect to the modifications to the District specified by the Resolution shall be by hand delivery or mailed ballot election.
Dated: This ___ day of September, 2022
BARBARA McGEE, City Clerk