CC RES 2024-035 RESOLUTION NO. 2024-35
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES APPROVING THE
ENGINEER'S REPORT AND DECLARING ITS INTENTION
TO SET THE LEVY AT ZERO WITHIN THE CITYWIDE
LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING MAINTENANCE
DISTRICT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-25 PURSUANT TO
THE LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ACT OF 1972,
CODIFIED AS PART 2 OF DIVISION 15 OF THE
CALIFORNIA STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODE, AND
APPOINTING A TIME AND PLACE FOR HEARING
OBJECTIONS THERETO.
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, codified as Part 2 of Division 15 of the Streets and
Highways Code (commencing with Section 22500) (the "Act"); and
WHEREAS, assessments levied within the District provide 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, pursuant to the provisions of the Act, the City Council initiated
proceedings by directing the Engineer, Harris & Associates, Inc. to prepare and file a
written report in accordance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 22565) of Chapter
1 of the Act; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Article 4 of Chapter 1 of the Act, the Engineer
prepared and filed such report (the "Engineer's Report") with the City Clerk on June 3,
2024.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES HEREBY
FINDS, DETERMINES, RESOLVES AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council hereby (1) approves the Engineer's Report; (2) finds
that the public interest and convenience requirements have been met; and (3) declares
its intention to set 'the levy at zero 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 Act for the fiscal
year commencing July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2025, and will use other available
funds to pay necessary expenditures for improvements in Section 3 of this Resolution
during this fiscal year.
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 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 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. Reference is 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
90275.
Section 5. The City Council hereby approves the Engineer's Report as submitted
and declares its intent to apply $476,100 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 apply $1,015,900 from other funding sources to cover
the costs of landscape maintenance. Such application of the Fund Balance or from other
funding sources is temporary and may be discontinued in any subsequent fiscal year. In
such event, assessment may be apportioned to each assessable lot or parcel in the
District in an amount not in excess of the assessment rates established August 6, 1992.
The City Council hereby finds and determines that the foregoing application of the Fund
Balance and other available funds will be just and equitable and in the public interest.
Section 6. Notice is hereby given that the City Council designates July 16, 2024,
at 7:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers, John C. McTaggart Memorial Hall, at the
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
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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. 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 90275. Any written protest that is mailed must be received at City Hall at or
prior to 4:30 p.m. on July 16, 2024.
Section 7. The City Clerk shall give notice of the aforesaid date, time, and place
of the hearing in accordance with law.
Section 8. The City Clerk shall certify the passage and adoption of this Report.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of June 2024.
Jo Vuikshank, Mayor
ATTEST:
-resa '- aoka, City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
I, TERESA TAKAOKA, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify
that the above Resolution No. 2024-35 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by
the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on June 18, 2024.
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