City Council
259 N. Wilma Avenue
Ripon, CA 95366
MEMO
To: Honorable City Council
From: Kevin Werner, City Administrator
Date: 01/14/2025
Subject: Landscape Maintenance Districts - 1st Annual Resolution RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Requesting Council order the City Engineer to prepare the report for the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 pertaining to the annual assessments for the City of Ripon’s ten Landscape Maintenance Districts.
BACKGROUND:
Pursuant to the provision of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, Part 2, Division 15 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California and Proposition 218, the City Council conducts proceedings for the formation of the City of Ripon Landscape Maintenance Districts as outlined in the table below.
Formation of Landscape Maintenance District Check List
Step Description
1 City Council adopts the resolution of intention to undertake proceedings for the formation of an assessment district directing the City Engineer to prepare a report in connection with the proposed formation of the assessment district. (1st Formation Resolution)
2 City Council adopts the resolution approving the Engineer’s Report in connection with the proposed formation of the assessment district, declaring its intention to form an assessment district and setting a time and place for a public hearing. (2nd Formation Resolution)
3 City Council adopts the resolution ordering the formation of the assessment district. (3rd Formation Resolution)
4 City submits required documents to County to set up new tax code required to levy the assessment.
DISCUSSION:
Upon formation of assessment district, the City is required to go through a process to approve the levying of the annual assessment district fees. The following table outlines the steps required to approve the levying of the annual assessments.
Annual Levy of Landscape Maintenance District Assessment Check List Step Description
1 City Council initiates the Landscape Maintenance District proceedings and adopts a resolution directing City Engineer to prepare the Engineer’s Report pertaining to the annual assessments. (1st Annual Resolution)
2 City Council adopts (1) a resolution giving preliminary approval of the Engineer’s Report, and (2) a resolution declaring its intention to order the levy and collection of the annual assessments and setting a time and place for a public hearing. (2 nd & 3rd Annual
Resolution)
3 City Council adopts a resolution determining the amount of and approving the levy and collection of the annual assessments. (4
th Annual Resolution)
4 City submits required documents to County to levy annual assessments for the coming fiscal year.
The attached resolution is the 1
st step in the annual process to levy assessments for the City of Ripon’s ten Landscape Maintenance Districts for the coming fiscal year.
RESOLUTION NO. 25-3
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RIPON ORDERING THE CITY ENGINEER TO PREPARE ON
BEHALF OF THE CITY OF RIPON THE ENGINEER'S
REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 PERTAINING
TO THE ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS FOR THE CITY OF
RIPON'S TEN LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICTS
LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN,
CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, previous hereto pursuant to Resolutions adopted by the City Council of the City of Ripon, the Assessment Districts noted in the table below were formed creating an assessment district pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 for the maintenance of general landscaping and irrigation systems in the City of Ripon; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 22565, et seq. of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California, the City Engineer is required to prepare and file with the City of Ripon a report for each fiscal year for which assessments are to be levied and collected by the City within said districts in order to pay for the costs of maintaining improvements as described in the Engineer’s Report.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Ripon that the City Engineer is hereby ordered pursuant to Section 22565 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California to prepare and file the annual engineer’s report in reference to the Landscape Maintenance Districts noted in the table below pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, for approval by the City Council, which said report shall indicate the present boundaries, the description of the work of improvements for which assessments are to be levied for the fiscal year, the method of assessment spread, their estimate of the maintenance costs, the assessment roll, and the assessment diagram and boundary map within said Districts and their proposed annual assessments for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2025, to and including June 30, 2026.
FORMATION OF LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE DISTRICTS
District Name
Council
Acceptance Date Resolution No.
Dutch Meadows #89-1 November 7, 1989 89-60
Country Woods Unit No. 2 & Zumstein Estates Subdivisions #89-2 January 2, 1990 90-1 Farmland Estates #92-1 June 2, 1992 92-30
Main Street Landscape Maintenance District #94-1 June 7, 1994 94-36 Boesch-Kingery Estates #96-1 April 2, 1996 96-17
Jacobs Landing #98-1 May 5, 1998 98-37
Carolina’s Landscape Maintenance District #02-1 August 6, 2002 02-77 Cornerstone 1 Landscape Maintenance District #07-1 April 7, 2007 07-36 Alexandra Place #17-2 June 12, 2018 18-55
The Vineyards #17-1 June 12, 2018 18-54
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Ripon this 14th day of January, 2025, by the following vote:
RESULT: ADOPTED AS AMENDED BY CONSENT VOTE [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Leo Zuber, Council Member
SECONDER:Michael Restuccia, Council Member
AYES: de Graaf, Barton, Uecker, Restuccia, Zuber
THE CITY OF RIPON,
A Municipal Corporation
By ________________________________
DANIEL DE GRAAF, Mayor
ATTEST:
By: ___________________________
LISA ROOS, City Clerk