A RESOLUTION delegating temporary authority to the City Clerk to set the time and place for a hearing on any appeals from the report, findings, recommendation, and decision of the Hearing Examiner on the final assessment roll for Local Improvement District No. 6751, and directing that the City Clerk provide any required notice of the hearing in the manner required by law.
Décembre 2021 Resolution 31965 delegating temporary authority to the city clerk to set the time and place for hearing any appeals from the report. Findings, recommendations and decision of the hearing on the final assessment role for Local Improvement District Number 6751 and directing that the City Clerk provide any required notice of a hearing in the manner. Required by law. Thank you, Madam Cook. I will move to adopt resolution 31965. Is there a second second? It's been moved and seconded to adopt the resolution. I am happy to report that Councilmember Juarez is with us this afternoon as the sponsor of the resolution. She is going to address this item in a fashion that is much more. That is much better than the way I did this morning. So I'm happy to have you here and hand it over to her to address this item, Cosmo Juarez. Thank you, President Gonzalez, particularly for leading the introduction around the waterfront lit assessment this morning. In defense of you, however. This has been going on for many years, so you shouldn't hold yourself out to be not doing a good job. I think you did a great job anyway. This is a necessary piece of legislation and administrative and required by law. The Council may not approve the final assessment role for the waterfront with that the local improvement district, without revealing and deciding upon appeals of the hearing examiner's recommendation on the final assessment role. And I'll come back to that in a minute. Council President This resolution delegates temporary authority to the city clerk to meet the deadline to set the time and place for appeals in case the deadline occurs during summer recess. That would be from August 24th to September 4th. Appeals will be referred to my committee, the Public Assets and Native Communities Committee, and this resolution stipulates that the clerk must schedule no earlier than December 1st to accommodate for recess and budget proceedings. As I shared the letter, the local improvement district and the unpacked it lid number 6751 which that means it is the 6,751st Lyd to be approved or on the on for us to consider. We've been doing lids since the early 1900s. We've been working on this with the waterfront for well over three years, working with the sale of waterfront folks and businesses, nonprofit condo owners, property owners, commercial property owners working with the Office of Waterfront for over four years, which has been great working with Marshall Foster and Jerry Costa. If you recall Council President about two years ago, I believe we hired a hearing examiner to get public comment and concerns that would be noted about this tax to be imposed. We were working with law in the executive to adjust the tax, the amount, the deferral and the time frame and calculation of such tax. We had a report from the hearing examiner last fall and we expect one final report, the final assessment rule. We're hoping that that report comes in late August to late September. So basically, this resolution is just a protection in the event that the report by the hearing examiner is filed during the recess. And this would just give the clerk the authority to and Erick's on the line to, I'm guessing, to go ahead and hold this. And so we had an up council had an opportunity to put it in our committee and make a decision. As you know, this kind of tax requires notice to those affected and those who may want to appeal. So with that being said, I would encourage my colleagues passage of Resolution 31965. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Juarez, for that description of the resolution and for your ongoing work on the waterfront. Live through your committee. Also want to thank the hearing examiner for all of the work they've been doing in response to your direction and vision on how to structure the substantive an appeal process issues in a way that is fair and equitable and transparent really appreciate all of the work that the hearing examiner and his staff have been doing. And lastly, just want to say thanks to our city clerk's office, who's also going to be playing a role now. So I will be gladly joining you in support of this resolution. Madam President, may I make an inquiry? And if you want to note this, that. We are still in a quasi judicial phase. A law that we are not allowed to be taking any kind of personal emails or comments from the public while this is still under the guidance and jurisdiction, if you will, of the hearing examiner. Absolutely. I made comments to that effect this morning at council briefing, and I think it's important to note it again here in open public session during our full council. So appreciate that reminder and admonition to council members related to this particular quasi judicial matter. Thank you. Absolutely. Any other comments? Any additional comments on the resolution? Hearing and seeing none. Will the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the resolution? Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Suarez. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Peterson. Yes. President Gonzalez. S seven in favor. None opposed. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will. The Court is the fix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Item 22 Will the clerk please read item 22 into the record?