Resolution 14946CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 14946
APPROVING THE ENGINEER'S REPORT, CONFIRMING
DIAGRAM AND ASSESSMENT AND ORDERING LEVY OF
ASSESSMENTS, MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
01 -01 (MARINA COVE)
WHEREAS, by its Resolution No. 14896, a resolution directing 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 directed
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. 14896, 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 Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at the hour of 7:00 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, 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 overruled, and this
Council thereby acquired jurisdiction to order the levy, confirm the diagram and
assessment prepared by and made a part of the Engineer's Report and to pay the
costs and expenses thereof.
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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 is to 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 this reference.
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, is
hereby confirmed 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 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.
6. Based on the oral and documentary evidence, including the
Engineer's Report, offered and received at the June 17, 2014 hearing, this Council
expressly finds and determines (a) that each of the several lots 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
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
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 land the amount of 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 Finance Division
of this City.
8. Upon receipt of moneys representing assessments collected
by the County, the Finance Division of this City of Alameda shall deposit said
moneys in the City Treasury to the credit of an improvement fund, which
improvement fund the Finance Division of this City is hereby directed to establish
under the distinctive designation of the District. Moneys in the improvement fund
shall be expended upon the maintenance of the improvements.
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 a
regular meeting assembled on the 17th day of June, 2014, by the following vote to
wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Chen, Daysog, Ezzy Ashcraft, Tam
and Mayor Gilmore — 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 18th day of June, 2014.
Lara Weisiger, City erk
City of Alameda