Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Resolution Approving the Engineer's Report, Confirming Diagram and Assessment, and Ordering the Levy of Assessments, Island City Landscaping and Lighting District 84-2, All Zones. (Public Works 275)
A public hearing to consider adopted a resolution approving the engineer's report, confirming a diagram and assessment and ordering the levee of assessments. Island city landscaping and lighting District 84 to all zones. Madam Mayor, I'm going to recuse myself in a homeowner in that area. Thank you. So anyone that has property or is a home owner within 500 feet of the property of the item needs to recuse themselves. You will be seen. You just saw two members. Leave. The dais. Vice Mayor and member de SAC. So at this point, we will continue with the the item. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the city council. I'm Melissa Cord, management analyst for the Public Works Department. The item before you this evening is one of three public hearings you will conduct to levy assessments for the city's special districts in the coming year. Special districts are formed so that property owners within those districts can pay assessments to fund enhanced maintenance within the district, for example, daily sidewalk cleaning. Normally, we would have two routine public hearings this evening, one for the landscape and lighting district and one for the maintenance assessment districts. But this evening is a little bit different. We'll still have those two routine public hearings to approve assessments to continue the status quo. But then comes the excitement. In the third hearing will count the ballots for an assessment increase on Park Street, one of the zones in our landscaping lighting district. Should the Park Street balloting be unsuccessful? Approval of this first item will guarantee that we can levy the existing assessments for the coming year. If that balloting is successful, the increased assessments will be collected instead. So with that, I will continue with the first item. This report report requests that council hold a public hearing and then adopt a resolution approving the engineer's report for the landscape and lighting district, confirming the diagram and assessment and ordering the levy of assessments. This is the last component of a prescribed legal process done annually to charge assessments for the following year in existence since 1984. This assessment district has six zones throughout the city. I'm going to walk you through the zones and the proposed assessments for each of the zones. The first zone is on Lincoln Avenue between Sherman and St Charles, and it funds landscape. Median maintenance staff is proposing assessments remain flat, totaling to just under $5,000 for the whole zone. Zone four is Park Street and funds, graffiti removal and daily litter cleanup, including a public litter can maintenance. As we just talked about, this zone is currently in the last stage of the balloting process to increase assessments as assessments for Park Street have remained flat since the mid 1990s. We will learn the results of the balloting after the public hearing and ballot tallying before council later this evening. If that balloting effort is unsuccessful, this action ensures that the existing assessments are collected for the coming year. Zones. Five and six are the Harbor Bay Business Park and Marina Village commercial area. And for these zones we are recommending consumer price index increases of 2.53%, which are permitted without balloting of the property owners. Zone seven represents several blocks of Bay Street and funds enhanced maintenance of the entries along the streets. We are recommending that assessment stay the same as past years, amounting to about $150 per parcel. Finally, zone eight is Webster Street. Webster Street was formerly Zones two and three of the Landscape and Lighting District, and last year the West Alameda Business Association City conducted a balloting process, a successful balloting process to double assessments over five years . It was during that process process. The zones were combined into one zone, now known as Zone eight. This is the second year of the assessment increase and these assessments primarily fund tree trimming and daily street maintenance in the Webster Zone. In closing, we are requesting that council adopt the resolution approving the engineer's report, confirming the diagram and assessment, and ordering the levy of the landscaping, lighting, district assessments for all zones. My report is complete and I'm available for any questions you may have. Member Ashcraft Thank you for a nice report. Ms.. Just for clarification on that last zone. Zone eight, Webster Street from Central Avenue to Atlantic Avenue. So the zone is in the second year of its assessment increase that will culminate in double assessments over five years. But at the end of that five year period, the assessments will just. They'll resume the consumer price index increase year over year. Okay. Thank you. I'm prepared. Yeah, I'm prepared to. I didn't have a question. I am prepared to move that we approve this resolution. Sorry. Approving the engineer's report, confirming diagram, an assessment and ordering levy of assessments. Island city landscaping and lighting. District eight for dash to all zones. Do we have any speakers on this item? We have nothing, because on this item. We have a second. Okay. Oh. My gosh. I a second. And then will the record note that we had to recuse themselves? Oh, yeah. All right. Any comments? All those in favor. I motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Cause 60. Yes. And has. There. Which is right. Got him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think. Okay. Six. E public came to consider adoption of resolution approving the engineer's report, confirming diagram and assessment and ordering the levy of assessments. Maintenance Assessment District A1. A1. Marina Cove.