Resolution 14356CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 14356
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APPROVING THE ENGINEER'S REPORT, CONFIRMING DIAGRAM
AND ASSESSMENT AND ORDERING LEVY OF ASSESSMENTS,
MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT 01 -01 (MARINA COVE)
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WHEREAS, by its Resolution No 14182, a resolution directing
n preparation of an Annual Report for Maintenance Assessment District 01 -01 (Marina
Cove), this City Council designated the City Engineer, as Engineer of Work and
ordered said Engineer of Work to make and file a report in writing in accordance with
and pursuant to the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972; and
WHEREAS, said report was duly made and filed with the City Clerk and
was presented to the City Council for consideration; and
WHEREAS, said Council considered said report and each and every
part hereof and found that it contained all the matters and things called for by the
provisions of said Code and said Resolution No. 14182, including; (1) plans and
specifications of the existing improvements and proposed improvements, (2) estimate
of costs (3) diagram of the district, and (4) an assessment according to the benefits,
all of which was done in the form and manner required by such Code; and
WHEREAS, it was determined that the report should stand as the
Engineer's Report for all subsequent proceedings under and pursuant to the
aforesaid resolution, and that on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock
p.m., in the regular meeting place of this City Council, Council Chambers, Alameda
City Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, California, was appointed as the time
and place for a hearing of protests in relation to the formation of a maintenance
assessment district pursuant to the City of Alameda's Maintenance Procedure Code,
to said proposed improvements and the levy of the proposed assessment; and
WHEREAS, it appears that notices of said hearings were duly and
regularly published and mailed in the time, form and manner required by said Code,
as evidence by the affidavits and certificates on file with said City Clerk; and
WHEREAS, persons interested in objecting to the formation of said
maintenance assessment district, or of said improvements, including the
maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, or to the extent of the maintenance
assessment district, or any zones therein, or to the proposed assessment or diagram,
or to the Engineer's estimate of costs thereof, were given an opportunity to be heard,
and all matters and things pertaining to the levy were fully heard and considered by
this City Council, and all oral statements and all written protests or communications
were duty heard, considered and overruled, and this City Council, thereby acquired
jurisdiction to order the levy and the confirmation of the diagram and assessment
prepared by and made a part of the Engineer's Report to pay the costs and expenses
thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED, that:
1. The property owners owning more than 50% of the area of
assessable lands within the District had not, at the conclusion of the hearing, filed
written protests against the proposed levy, as a whole or as to any part thereof, or
against the District or the extent thereof to be assessed for the costs and expenses of
the levy as a whole, or as to any part thereof, or against the Engineer of Work's
estimate of costs and expenses, in whole or in part, or against the maps and
description, in whole or in part, or against the diagram or the assessment to pay for
the costs and expenses thereof, in whole or in part.
2. The public interest, convenience, and necessity require that the
levy be made.
3. The District benefited by the improvements and will be assessed
for said costs for the construction or installation of the improvements, including the
maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, are situated in the City of Alameda,
California, the exterior boundaries thereof, are as shown by a map thereof filed in the
office of the City Clerk, which map is made a part hereof by reference thereto.
4. That said district be, and is hereby designated as "City of
Alameda Maintenance Assessment District 01 -01" by which name it shall hereafter
be referred to in all subsequent proceedings, including proceedings for the levy and
collection of assessments.
5. The Engineer's Report as a whole and each part thereof, to whit:
(a) The Engineer of Work's estimate of the itemized and total
costs and expenses of maintaining the improvements and of the incidental expenses
in connection therewith;
(b) The diagram showing the assessment district, plans, and
specifications for the improvements to be maintained and the boundaries and
dimensions of the respective lots and parcels of land within the District; and
(c) The assessment of the total amount of the cost and
expenses of the proposed maintenance of the improvements upon the several lots or
parcels of land in the District in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by
such lots and parcels, respectively, from said improvements, including the
maintenance or servicing, or both, thereof, and of the expenses incidental thereto, is
finally approved and confirmed.
6. Based on the oral and documentary evidence, including the
Engineer's Report, offered and received at the hearing, this Council expressly finds
and determines (a) that each of the several Tots and parcels of land will be specially
benefited by the maintenance of the improvements at least in the amount, if not more
than the amount, of the assessment apportioned against the Tots and parcels of land,
respectively, and (b) that there is substantial evidence to support, and the weight of
the evidence preponderates in favor of, the aforesaid findings and determination as
to special benefits.
7. Upon the adoption of this resolution, but in no event later than
the third Monday in August following such adoption, the City Clerk shall file a certified
copy of the diagram and assessment and a certified copy of this resolution with the
Auditor of the County of Alameda, Upon such filing, the County Auditor shall enter on
the County assessment roll opposite each lot or parcel of and the amount of
assessment thereupon as shown in the assessment roll opposite each lot or parcel of
and the amount of assessment thereupon as shown in the assessment. The
assessments shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as County
taxes are collected, and all laws providing for the collection and enforcement of
County taxes shall apply to the collection and enforcement of the assessme
nts. After
collection by the County of Alameda, the net amount of the assessments after
deduction of any compensation due the County for collection, shall be paid to the
Director of Finance of this City.
8. Upon receipt of moneys representing assessments collected by
the County, the Director of Finance of this City of Alameda shall deposit osit the moneys
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in the City Treasury to the credit of an improvement fund, which improvement fund
the Director of Finance of this City is hereby directed to establish under the distinctive
designation of the District. Moneys in the improvement fund shall upon
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for the maintenance of the improvements.
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda during the Regular
Meeting of the City Council on the 16th day of June, 2009, by the following vote to wit:
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AYES: counci l members deHaan, Gilmore, Matarrese, Tam
and Mayor Johnson - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of
said Cit y day this 1 7th da of June, 2009.
Lara Weisiger, City C1
City of Alameda