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- Adoption of a Resolution Confirming the Assessment and Ordering the Levy for the Higuera Street Landscape and Lighting Assessment District - Fiscal Year 2014/2015.
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City of Culver City, California
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Meeting Date: 06/23/14 Item Number: PH-4
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM: PUBLIC HEARING - Adoption of a Resolution
Confirming the Assessment and Ordering the Levy for the Higuera Street
Landscape and Lighting Assessment District - Fiscal Year 2014/2015
Contact Person/Dept.: Mate Gaspar/DPW Phone Number: (310) 253-5602
Fiscal Impact: Yes [X] No [] General Fund: Yes [] No [X]
Public Hearing: [X] Action Item: [] Attachments: [X]
Commission Action Required: Yes [] No [X] Date: _______________
Public Notification: (E-Mail) Agenda and Meetings – City Council (06/17/14); Public
Hearing Notice published in the Culver City News on June 12, 2014. Property owners
were mailed a courtesy notice on June 10, 2014.
Department Approval:
Charles D. Herbertson (06/12/14)
City Attorney Approval:
Carol Schwab (by H. Baker) (06/16/14)
Chief Financial Officer Approval:
Jeff Muir (06/17/14)
City Manager Approval:
John M. Nachbar (06/17/14)
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the City Council adopt a resolution confirming the assessment
and ordering the levy for the Higuera Street Landscape and Lighting Assessment
District for Fiscal Year 2014/2015.
PROCEDURE:
1. Mayor seeks motion from City Council to receive and file the affidavits of
publication and posting of notices and correspondence received in response to
the public hearing notices; and,
2. Mayor calls for a staff report and the City Council Members may pose questions
to staff as desired; and,
3. Mayor seeks a motion to open the public hearing; and
4. Mayor seeks a motion to close the public hearing after all public testimony has
been presented; and,
5. City Council discusses the item and arrives at its decision.
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BACKGROUND:
On May 27, 2014, the City Council approved the Engineer’s Report, declared its
intention to order the assessment levy and collection of assessments, and set the
date, time and place for this public hearing, for the Higuera Street Landscape and
Lighting Assessment District.
The Higuera Street landscaping and street lighting improvements were installed in
1995 at the request of the property owners. The assessment district was formed,
and the boundary includes properties on both sides of Higuera Street between
Lindblade Avenue and Hayden Avenue. Each of the properties directly or indirectly
benefits from the public improvements maintained in the District.
In December 2009, following two failed attempts to increase the assessment, the
City Council approved the reduction of maintenance from 4 times a month to 2
times a month, removal of lantanas around the street trees, and reduction of
landscape irrigation by 30%, in order for the District expenditures to match District
revenues.
DISCUSSION:
The total proposed Fiscal Year 2014/2015 assessment levy for the District is
$19,402.24. The total proposed expenditure is $20,067.00. The charge per linear
frontage footage per parcel is $4.35. The purchase of three new irrigation controllers
in Fiscal Year 2009/2010 is being amortized over a five year period (which
concludes in Fiscal Year 2014/2015) and, as a result, the District will have a
projected operating deficit of $664 until then. Nevertheless, staff is not
recommending seeking an increase to the assessment levy for Fiscal Year
2014/2015 and recommends that the existing assessment levy be affirmed.
Staff will continue to monitor the rate of expenditure growth and recommend
additional cutbacks to services to the District when deemed necessary.
Pursuant to Section 15.01.070.H of the Culver City Municipal Code (CCMC), any
interested persons may file a written protest with the City Clerk (or withdrawal a
previously filed protest) until the conclusion of the Public Hearing. Pursuant to
CCMC Section 15.01.070.K, the City Council shall not impose an increased
assessment if there is a majority protest. In this case, for Fiscal Year 2014/2015,
the Engineer’s Report does not propose an increased assessment. Therefore,
notwithstanding any written protests received, the City Council may adopt the
resolution confirming the assessment as determined by the Engineer’s Report.
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Pursuant to CCMC Section 15.01.070 (J and K), the City Council may choose to
order changes in any of the matters provided in the report, including changes in the
improvements or services, or both, any zones within the district, and the proposed
diagram or proposed assessment so long as the changes do not result in an
increase of the rates above the voter approved maximum rates adjusted by an
inflationary formula, if any (if such formula received prior voter approval), or it may
choose to adopt a resolution confirming the diagram and assessment, either as
originally proposed or as changed by it. Adoption of such resolution constitutes the
assessment levy for Fiscal Year 2014/2015. The City Council may also choose to
dissolve the District pursuant to CCMC Section 15.01.065.A.3 or pay for the
assessment with the City’s General Fund.
FISCAL ANALYSIS:
The Higuera Street Landscaping and Lighting Assessment District budget is 100
percent self-supporting for all expenditures. Property owners within the District are
charged for their fair share of these costs, as described in the Engineer’s Report.
ATTACHMENT:
1. Proposed Resolution
MOTION:
That the City Council:
Adopt a resolution confirming the assessment and ordering the levy for Higuera
Street Landscape and Lighting Assessment District - Fiscal Year 2014/2015.