CC RES 1998-026 RESOLUTION NO. 98-26
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO LEVY AND
COLLECT ASSESSMENTS WITHIN CITYWIDE LANDSCAPING AND
LIGHTING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998-99
PURSUANT TO THE LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ACT OF 1972,
PART 2 OF DIVISION 15 OF THE CALIFORNIA STREETS AND
HIGHWAYS CODE, AND APPOINTING A TIME AND PLACE FOR
HEARING OBJECTIONS THERETO
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES HEREBY
FINDS, DETERMINES, RESOLVES AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council hereby declares its intention to levy and collect
assessments against the assessable lots and parcels of property within an existing
assessment district designated "Citywide Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance
District" (the "District") 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") 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 below.
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 and maintenance of public streets and sidewalks 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. The assessments to be levied and collected against the assessable
lots and parcels of property within the District for fiscal year 1998-99 are not proposed
to increase from the assessments levied and collected for fiscal year 1997-98.
Section 5. By previous resolution, the City Council ordered the Engineer,
Berryman & Henigar, to prepare and file an engineer's report pursuant to the provisions
of the Act. The Engineer has prepared and filed a written report with the City
Clerk entitled "Engineer's Report for Citywide Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance
District, Fiscal Year 1998-99" (the "Engineer's Report") and by previous resolution the
City Council approved the Engineer's Report as filed.
Section 6. Reference is hereby made to the Engineer's Report on file in the
office of the City Clerk and open to public inspection for a full and detailed description
of the improvements, the boundaries of the District and the zones therein, and the
proposed assessments upon assessable lots and parcels of land within the District.
The office of the City Clerk is located at 30940 Hawthorne Boulevard, Rancho Palos
Verdes, California 90274.
Section 7. 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 pay
for any of the costs and expenses of the improvements.
Section 8. Notice is hereby given that the City Council appoints May 19, 1998 at
7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers, Hesse Park Community Center, 29301 Hawthorne
Boulevard, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, as the date, time and place for the
hearing of protests or objections to the levy of the proposed assessments in connection
with the District. All interested persons shall be afforded the opportunity to hear and be
heard. The City Council shall consider all oral statements and all written protests or
communications made or filed by any interested person. Prior to the conclusion of the
hearing, any interested person may file a written protest with the City Clerk or, having
previously filed a protest, may file a written withdrawal of that protest. A written protest
shall state all grounds of objection. A protest by a property owner shall contain a
description sufficient to identify the property owned by the signer thereof. Written
protests may be delivered in person to the City Clerk or may be mailed to the City Clerk
at City Hall, 30940 Hawthorne Boulevard, Rancho Palos Verdes, California 90274. Any
written protest which is mailed must be received at City Hall at or prior to 4:30 p.m. on
May 19, 1998.
Section 9. The City Clerk shall give notice of the aforesaid date, time and place
of hearing in accordance with law.
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Section 10. The City Council hereby determines and declares that the proposed
assessments constitute a continuation of assessments existing on the effective date of
Article XIIID, that the assessments are imposed exclusively to finance the maintenance
and operation expenses for streets and sidewalks and that the assessments are
exempt from the requirements of Article XIIID, Section 4 of the California Constitution.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of April 1998.
Mayor
ATTEST:
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I, JO PURCELL, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify
that the above Resolution No. 98-26 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the
said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on April 7, 1998
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