Dougherty Valley is an 11,000-unit development that was approved by, and is being processed through Contra Costa County and is annexed into the City of San Ramon as Final Maps are approved and improvements are accepted as complete. Dougherty Valley began construction in 1996 and currently 92% of the homes have been annexed into San Ramon.  
  
A 1994 Settlement Agreement that allowed for the development of Dougherty Valley also laid out a plan to provide for the long-term operation and maintenance of the increased municipal services provided in Dougherty Valley. These increased services include Police Protection, Parks Maintenance, Landscape Maintenance, Street Lighting, increased Library Services, and the operation and maintenance of 3 Community Facilities Buildings (Community Center, Senior Center, and Service Center).  
  
In a 1997 Memorandum of Understanding between Contra Costa County and the City of San Ramon, it was decided that these increased services would be provided by the City of San Ramon, and reimbursed through property tax and special assessment revenue of CSA M-29. CSA M-29 was created in 1998 to collect property tax and special assessment revenue.  
  
The Dougherty Valley Maintenance Budget includes all revenue from CSA M-29 in addition to sales tax, real property transfer tax and contributions from the City of San Ramon General Fund. At the end of the fiscal year funds are to be reimbursed to the City of San Ramon for various municipal services provided within the Dougherty Valley area.  
  
On December 20, 2005, the Board of Supervisors approved a Reimbursement Agreement between the County, the City of San Ramon, Shapell Industries and Windemere BLC Land Company to provide reimbursement to the City of San Ramon for providing services within the boundaries of Dougherty Valley.  
  
The Reimbursement Agreement outlined the annual process for the City of San Ramon to receive reimbursement of funds for services rendered in Dougherty Valley. The process laid out in the agreement calls for the annual budget for Dougherty Valley Maintenance to be approved at the San Ramon City Council level and then subsequently approved at the County Board of Supervisors.  
  
On May 23, 2017, by Resolution 2017-047, the San Ramon City Council approved the FY 2017/18 citywide operating and capital budgets including line items for the Dougherty Valley Maintenance which totaled $23,811,415 in expenses.  

The Dougherty Valley Maintenance budget will not be approved and the City of San Ramon will not receive reimbursement for city services performed in Dougherty Valley as agreed to under terms of the Reimbursement Agreement and the 1994 Settlement Agreement.