DocuSign Envelope lD: 467641 5D-E98A-45C5-9C70-B3653EA04FAD RESOLUTTON NO. 6596-2024
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CIW OF SEBASTOPOL APPROVING THE ANNUAL ENGINEER'S
REPORT, THE ASSESSMENT DIAGRAM AND ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS AND LEVYING THE ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-25 SEBASTO POL LIG HTI NG SPECIAL ASSESSM E NT DISTRICT (PURSUANTTO THE LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING ACT OF 1972)
WHEREAS, the City Council ordered the formation of the Assessment District on May 1-8,L981 to levy and collect assessments pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972; and WHEREAS, the City Council intends to levy and collect annual assessments for the operation and maintenance of streetlights along public rights-of-way within the Sebastopol Lighting Special Assessment District during Fiscal Year 2024-25. The area of land to be assessed is located in the City of Sebastopol, County of Sonoma; and
WHEREAS, the City Council must appoint an Engineer of Work and direct the preparation and filing of an Engineer's Report outlining the proposed budgets, the proposed improvements and/or changes to the Assessment District in order to levy and collect assessments in any following fiscal year; and WHEREAS, pursuanttoSection 22622of theStreetsand HighwaysCode,theCityCouncilonApril L6,2024, appointed NBS as the Engineer of Work for the Sebastopol Lighting Special Assessment District, directed the preparation and filing of the annual Engineer's Report describing the potential changes to the Assessment District for Fiscal Year 2024-25; and
WHEREAS, the Engineer of Work subsequently prepared and filed with the City Clerk the annual Engineer's Report for Fiscal Year 2024-25 as required by the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 an May 21,2024; and;
WHEREAS, the annual assessment of 532.00 per Equivalent Single-Family Dwelling Unit (ESD) is proposed to be levied and collected for Fiscal Year 2024-25; and WHEREAS, notice of the public protest hearing was given by publication according to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972; and
WHEREAS, on June 18,2024, the City Council conducted a public hearing and gave every interested person an opportunity to make a protest to the annual Engineer's Report, either in writing or orally, and the City Council considered each protest; and
WHEREAS, the Sebastopol Lighting District is exempt from the procedural requirements of Proposition 218, and per Article XlllD, Section 5(a), the public agency property that was not assessed in previous years does not need to be included in this Assessment District as long as the assessment is not increased beyond its highest rate prior to 1996.
NOW, THEREFORE BE lT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Sebastopol hereby approves and adopts the annual Engineer's Report as prepared and filed, confirms the Assessment Diagram and annual assessments as set forth in the annual Fiscal Year 2024-25 Engineer's Report and any amendments incorporated at the City Council's direction and hereby authorizes the levy and collection of the annual DocuSign Envelope lD: 4676415D-E98A.45C5-9C70-B3653EA04FAD assessments set forth in such report for Fiscal Year 2024-25 and that this resolution is adopted pursuant to Section 2263I of the Streets and Highways Code,
The above and foregoing Resolution was duly passed, approved, and adopted at a meeting by the City Council on the 18th day of June,2024.
l, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by City of Sebastopol City Council following a roll call vote:
VOTE:
Ayes: Councilmembers Hinton, Maurer, Mclewis, Vice Mayor Zollman and Mayor Rich Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
APPROVED: Q#,r:*,,
by:
Mayor Diana Rich
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ATTEST:
Mary
APPROVED AS TO FORM
City Manager/City Clerk, MMC
/-Docuslgncd by:
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-tztFf?Heto50fhli n, City Attorney