CC RES 1997-033RESOLUTION NO. 97 -33
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 1997 -98 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,
1997 and ending June 30, 1998, 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, 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.
Proposed improvements shall no longer include the operation,
maintenance and servicing of park and recreational improvements and 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 1997 -98 are
not proposed to increase from the assessments levied and collected for fiscal year
1996 -97.
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 1997 -98" (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 June 3,
1997 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 June 3, 1997.
Section 9. The City Clerk shall give notice of the aforesaid date, time and
place of hearing in accordance with law.
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
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the maintenance and operation expenses for streets and that the assessments are
exempt from the requirements of Article XIIID, Section 4 of the California Constitution.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of May, 1997.
OTTI=CT-
City of Rancho Palos Verdes
State of California
County of Los Angeles
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I, JO PURCELL, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby
certify that the above Resolution No. 97 -33 was duly and regularly passed and adopted
by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on May 6, 1997.
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