CC RES 1998-024 RESOLUTION NO. 98-24
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES INITIATING PROCEEDINGS
FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS
WITHIN CITYWIDE LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING
MAINTENANCE DISTRICT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998-99
AND ORDERING THE PREPARATION OF AN ENGINEER'S
REPORT PURSUANT TO THE LANDSCAPING AND
LIGHTING ACT OF 1972, PART 2 OF DIVISION 15
OF THE CALIFORNIA STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
HEREBY FINDS, DETERMINES, RESOLVES AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Pursuant to the provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of
1972, Part 2 of Division 15 of the Streets and Highways Code (commencing with
Section 22500) (the "Act"), the City Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes
desires to initiate proceedings for the levy and collection of assessments against the
assessable lots and parcels of property within an existing assessment district
designated "Citywide Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District" (the "District")
for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1998 and ending June 30, 1999, to pay for the
costs and expenses of the improvements described in Section 3 hereof.
Section 2. The boundaries of the District are coterminous with the boundaries of
the City of Rancho Palos Verdes.
Section 3. The proposed improvements are briefly described as follows: The
operation, maintenance and servicing of public streets within the District, including the
operation, maintenance and servicing of public lighting facilities, including safety
lighting and traffic signals, landscaping, including trees, shrubs, grass and other
ornamental vegetation, and appurtenant facilities, including irrigation systems, located
along public roadways, streets and rights-of-way within the boundaries of the City.
Maintenance means the furnishing of services and materials for the ordinary and usual
maintenance, operation and servicing of the landscaping, public lighting facilities, and
appurtenant facilities, including repair, removal or replacement of all or part of any of
the landscaping, public lighting facilities, or appurtenant facilities; providing for the
life, growth, health and beauty of the landscaping, including cultivation, irrigation,
trimming, spraying, fertilizing and treating for disease or injury; the removal of
trimmings, rubbish, debris and other solid waste; and the cleaning, sandblasting, and
painting of walls and other improvements to remove or cover graffiti. Servicing means
the furnishing of water for the irrigation of the landscaping and the maintenance
of any of the public lighting facilities or appurtenant facilities and the furnishing of
electric current or energy, gas or other illuminating agent for the public lighting facilities
or for the lighting or operation of landscaping or appurtenant facilities.
Section 4. Public property owned by any public agency and in use in the
performance of a public function which is included within the boundaries of the District
shall not be subject to assessment to be made under these proceedings to cover
any of the cost and expenses of the improvements.
Section 5. The City Council hereby designates Berryman & Henigar as the
engineer for the purposes of these assessment proceedings (the "Engineer").
Section 6. The City Council hereby authorizes and directs the Engineer to
prepare and file with the City Clerk a report for the District for the fiscal year
commencing July 1, 1998 and ending June 30, 1999 in accordance with Article 4
(commencing with Section 22565) of Chapter 1 of the Act.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of April, 1998.
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City Clerk
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I, JO PURCELL, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify
that the above Resolution No. 98-24 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the
said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on April 7, 1998.LI AhAiLke_ ,L... ____ -
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