Resolution No. 2025-XX
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-xx
A RESOLUTON OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA CONFIRMING THE COSTS
OF SECURING AND/OR DEMOLITION OF
VARIOUS STRUCTURES DECLARED TO BE
PUBLIC NUISANCES; MAKING, CONFIRMING
AND LEVYING ASSESSMENTS FOR SUCH
COSTS; AND ORDERI NG SUCH COSTS TO BE
RECORDED WITH THE ORANGE COUNTY
RECORDER’S OFFICE
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows:
A. The City’s Dangerous and Abandoned Buildings (DABS) Program has proven to be an effective tool to abate dangerous and abandoned structures that create an attractive nuisance for children and provide harborage for illegal activity. The abatements are accomplished by board-ups and/or demolition.
B. Pursuant to Section 17 -40 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, the Executive Director of the Planning and Building Agency has submitted an itemized report, a copy of which is on file with the City Clerk, showing the costs of securing property and/or demolition of various structures carried out by the City of Santa Ana upon each individual lot or parcel of land where such work was done.
C. The Executive Director of the Planning and Building Agency has given notice of the public hearing as required by law, in which the 19th day of August, 2025, at the hour of 5:30 p.m. was fixed as the time, and 22 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana as the place, where any and all person interested in said report might be heard.
D. The City Council of th e City of Santa Ana, at said time and place has received, heard, and considered said report and all objection by property owners liable to be assessed for the abatement, and directed such modification of said report as it has deemed necessary.
Section 2. Each and every objection to said work and the costs thereof is hereby overruled; said report, a copy of which is on file with the Clerk of the Council, is hereby confirmed; the cost of abatement work done in front of or upon each lot or parcel of real property, as shown on Exhibits 1 and 2, which are incorporated by this reference EXHIBIT 3
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as though fully set forth herein, and the amounts therein on such assessments shall become due thirty (30) days after the adoption of this Resolution.
Section 3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the City Council and the Clerk of the Council shall attest to and certify the vote adopting this Resolution.
Section 4. The Executive Director of Planning and Building Agency is hereby directed to file a certified copy of said report and this Resolution with the County Recorder’s Office, the County Auditor, County Assessor, and County Tax Collector.
Section 5. The County Auditor is requested to enter the assessments on the county tax rolls.
Section 6. The County Tax Collector is requested to collect the assessment at the time and in the manner of ordinary municipal taxes.
Section 7. The City of Santa Ana hereby certifies that the special assessments, special taxes, parcel taxes, charges and/or fees which are to b e placed on the fiscal year 20 24-2025 property tax roll have been duly adopted in accordance with State law and are legally valid.
ADOPTED this ____ day of August, 2025
_______________________
Valerie Amezcua
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:_________________________
Melissa M. Crosthwaite
Senior Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers ________________________________________ NOES: Councilmembers _______________________________________ ABSTAIN: Councilmembers _______________________________________ NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers _______________________________________
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CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIRGINALITY
I, Jennifer Hall, City Clerk, do hereby attest to and certify the attached Resolution No. 2025-______ to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana on August 19, 2025.
Date: ________________ ____________________________________ City Clerk, City of Santa Ana