REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
July 20, 2017
FROM: SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Interim Director
Public Works Department
BY: ANDREW J. BENELLI, PE, Assistant Director/City Engineer
Public Works Department/Traffic Engineering Services Division
AARON A. AGUIRRE, Public Works Manager
Public Works Department, Landscape Maintenance Division
SUBJECT
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HEARING to consider the proposed Annual Assessment for the City of Fresno Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 1 (Citywide)
1. RESOLUTION - Confirming the diagram and assessment and levy of annual assessment, 2017-2018, for Landscaping and Lighting District No. 1
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Adopt a resolution confirming the diagram and assessment.
2. Levy and collect the annual assessments for Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 1.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Act of 1972 requires an annual hearing and levy of assessments for the City of Fresno Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 1 (LLMD). Today's hearing is to allow opportunity for public comment about the LLMD and for the Council's approval of the annual assessment.
BACKGROUND
On March 22, 1983, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 83-93 ordering the formation of Assessment District No. 89 (District), subsequently renamed LLMD. The District was formed to recover the City's costs of maintaining the landscaping within public rights-of-way and easements adjacent to certain existing subdivisions. The District is now comprised of 145 subdivisions with 14,870 individual assessments.
The landscaping improvements are maintained by the Public Works Department from funds derived through the assessments levied by the District. These assessments will fund the cost of basic landscape maintenance services over the next year. The amount of the annual assessment has remained unchanged since 1997 due to the constraints placed by California Proposition 218, which woul...
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