CC RES 2017-043 RESOLUTION NO. 2017-43
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 2017-18 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.
WHEREAS, on August 6, 1992, the City Council of the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes formed an assessment district designated as the "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"); and
WHEREAS, assessments levied within the District provided revenue for the
purpose of financing the installation, construction, and maintenance of certain public
projects eligible under the Act, including without limitation the operation,
maintenance, and servicing of public street and sidewalk landscaping, irrigation
systems, and other appurtenant facilities; and
WHEREAS, the assessments levied by the District have not been increased
on any date on or after July 1, 1997; and
WHEREAS, in order to commence such proceeds, the City must retain an
engineer to prepare a report in accordance with Section 22622 of the Act; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions set forth in Chapter 3 of the Act,
commencing with Section 22620 of the Streets and Highways Code, the City
Council now desires to initiate proceedings to remove the annual levy for Fiscal
Year 2017-18; and
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
HEREBY FINDS, DETERMINES, RESOLVES, AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The recitals set forth above are true and correct, and are
incorporated herein by this reference.
Section 2. Pursuant to the provisions of the Act, the City Council desires to
initiate proceedings to set 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, 2017 and ending June 30, 2018,
which had previously paid for the costs and expenses of the improvements
described below in Section 4 of this Resolution.
Section 3. The boundaries of the District are coterminous with the boundaries
of the City.
Section 4. The proposed improvements are briefly described as follows: The
operation, maintenance, and servicing of public street and sidewalk landscaping
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 5. 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 6. The City Council designates Harris & Associates, Inc. as the
Engineer for the purposes of these assessment proceedings (the "Engineer").
Section 7. 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, 2017 and ending June 30, 2018, in accordance with Article 4 (commencing
with Section 22565) of Chapter 1 of the Act.
Section 8. The City Council hereby declares its intent to apply $457,700 of
the 1911 Act Lighting Maintenance District Fund Balance to the costs and expenses
of operating, maintaining, and servicing traffic signals, safety lighting, and street
lighting. 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.
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 1st day of August, 2017.
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ATT:
Clerk
State of California )
County of Los Angeles )ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Emily Colborn, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify that
the above Resolution No. 2017-43 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by
the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on August 1, 2017.
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