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Resolution 11479CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 11479 A RESOLUTION APPROVING ENGINEER'S REPORT, CONFIRMING DIAGRAM AND ASSESSMENT AND ORDERING LEVY OF ASSESSMENTS Island City Landscaping and Lighting District 84 -2 RESOLVED, by the City Council (the "Council ") of the City of Alameda (the "City "); County of Alameda, California, that: WHEREAS, by its Resolution No. 11462, a Resolution Directing Preparation of Annual Report for Maintenance Assessment District, Island City Landscaping and Lighting District 84 -2, (the "District "), this Council designated Mr. John Heinel, 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 Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972; and WHEREAS, the report was duly made and filed with the City Clerk and duly considered by this council and found to be sufficient in every particular, whereupon 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 June 7, 1988, in the regular meeting place of this Council, City Hall, Santa Clara at Oak Street, Alameda, California, were appointed as the time and place for a hearing by this Council on the question of the levy of the proposed assessment, notice of which hearing was duly and regularly published; and WHEREAS, at the appointed time and place the hearing was duly and regularly held, and all persons interested desiring to be heard were given an opportunity to be heard, and all matters and things pertaining to the levy were fully heard and considered by this Council, and all oral statements and all written protests or communications were duly heard, considered and are hereby overruled, and this 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: that: NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS FOUND, DETERMINED AND ORDERED, 1. The property owners owning more than fifty percent (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 1 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 to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof, and 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. The Engineer's Report as a whole and each part thereof, to wit: (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 losts 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 and parcels of land in the District in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by such lots and parcels, respectively, from the maintenance, and of the expenses incidental thereto; are finally approved and confirmed. 5. Final adoption and approval of the Engineer's Report as a whole, and of the plans and specifications, estimate of the costs and expenses, the diagram and the assessment, as contained in the report, as hereinabove determined and ordered, is intended to and shall refer and apply to the report, or any portion thereof , as amended, modified, or revised or corrected by, or pursuant to and in accordance with, any resolution or order, if any heretofore duly adopted or made by this Council. 6. The assessment to pay the costs and expenses of the maintenance of the improvements is hereby levied. For further particulars pursuant to the provisions of the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, reference is hereby made to the Resolution Directing Preparation of Annual Report. 7. 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 2 (71 9. Upon receipt of moneys representing assessments collected by the County, the Director of Finance of this City u F shall deposit the moneys in the City Treasury to the credit of an improvement fund, which improvement fund the Finance Director of this City is hereby directed to establish under the distinctive = designation of the District. Moneys in the improvement fund shall be expended only for the maintenance of the improvements. a. I CL several lots and parcels of land will be specifically benefited by the maintenance of the improvements at least in the amount, if not more than the amount, of the assessment apportioned against the lots 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 finding and determination as to special benefits. 8. Immediately upon the adoption of this resolution, but in no event later than the third Monday in August following such adoption, the 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 land 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 assessments. 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. 3 I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 7th of June, 1988, by the following vote to wit: AYES: Councilmembers-Camicia, Haugner, Monsef, Thomas and President Corica - 5. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 8th day of June, 1988.