CC RES 2015-032 RESOLUTION NO. 2015-32
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES INITIATING PROCEEDINGS FOR THE LEVY AND
COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS WITHIN THE CITYWIDE
LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING MAINTENANCE DISTRICT FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2015-16 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, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016, to pay for the costs and expenses
of the improvements described below in Section 3 of this Resolution.
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 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 to cover graffiti. Servicing means the furnishing of
water for 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 that is included within the boundaries of the District
shall not be subject to assessment to be made under these proceedings to cover any
costs and expenses of the improvements.
Section 5. The City Council designates Harris & Associates as the Engineer for
the purposes of these assessment proceedings (the "Engineer").
Section 6. The City Council authorizes and directs the Engineer to prepare and
to file with the City Clerk a report for the District for the Fiscal Year commencing July 1,
2015, and ending June 30, 2016, in accordance with Article 4 (commencing with
Section 22565) of Chapter 1 of the Act.
Section 7. The City Council hereby declares its intent to apply $117,000 of the
1911 Act Lighting Maintenance District Fund Balance to the costs and expenses of
operating, maintaining, and servicing traffic signals and safety lighting, and to maintain
the credit of$4.46 per EDU against the assessment rate for each assessable lot or
parcel in the District. Such application of the Fund Balance is temporary and may be
discontinued in any subsequent fiscal year. In such event, the credit of$4.46 per EDU
may be discontinued with the assessments apportioned to each assessable lot or parcel
in the District restored to amounts not in excess of the assessment rates for Fiscal Year
2004-05. The City Council hereby finds and determines that the foregoing application of
the Fund Balance will be just and equitable and in the public interest.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 5th day of May, 2015.
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City Clerk
State of California )
County of Los Angeles )ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Carla Morreale, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify that the
above Resolution No. 2015-32 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said
City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on May 5, 2015.
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City Clerk
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