RECOMMENDATION(S): (CONT'D)
3. CONSIDER whether to adopt, revise, change, reduce, increase, or modify any estimated assessment charge set forth in the Tentative Annual Report.
4. APPROVE the estimated assessment charges set forth in the Tentative Annual Report.
5. ADOPT Resolution No. 2016/347, confirming the Tentative Annual Report and assessing the charges set forth in the report.
6. DIRECT the Public Works Director or her designee to prepare a Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Final Annual Report for CSA M-30 that conforms to the County’s official assessment roll for Fiscal Year 2016-2017. (County Service Area M-30 Funds) (District II) Project No. 7499-6X5491.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The levy of the annual assessment charges in CSA M-30 will provide revenues for police services, park and roadside landscape maintenance, public street maintenance and street lighting services in CSA M-30.
BACKGROUND:
As directed by Article 1012-2.602 of the Contra Costa County Ordinance Code, the Public Works Director prepared a Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Tentative Annual Report on assessment charges in CSA M-30 and filed it with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. CSA M-30 provides police services, park and roadside landscape maintenance, public street maintenance and street lighting services. The Tentative Annual Report contains a description of each parcel of real property receiving services, the basic assessment charge for CSA M-30 and the estimated amount of the assessment charge for each parcel for the fiscal year.
Upon the filing of the Tentative Annual Report, the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors fixed a time, date and place for a Board hearing on the Tentative Annual Report and for filing objections or protests thereto, and published a notice of the hearing as provided in Government Code section 6066.
Following the public hearing, the Board may adopt, revise, change, reduce, increase or modify any estimated assessment charge, and shall make its determination upon each estimated assessment charge as described in the Tentative Annual Report. The assessment charges in the Tentative Annual Report were computed and apportioned according to a formula that fairly distributes the assessment charge among all subject parcels in proportion to the estimated benefits they will receive from the services provided. Staff recommends approval of the assessment charges in the Tentative Annual Report without modification.
The assessment charges in the Tentative Annual Report are higher than the charges levied in Fiscal Year 2015-2016 because they incorporate an automatic adjustment approved by the parcel owners in CSA M-30 in 1997. The adjustment provision allowed for an increase each year based upon the All Urban Consumers for San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose plus two percent (2%). The Board approved this provision on May 5, 1998.
Adoption of Resolution 2016/347 confirms the Tentative Annual Report and assesses the charges set forth therein, but does not levy the charges. The levy of the assessment charges occurs after the preparation of a Final Annual Report that conforms to the official assessment roll for Fiscal Year 2016-2017. The official assessment roll will be issued by the County Assessor on or about July 1, 2016.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If the Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Tentative Annual Report for CSA M-30 is not confirmed, either as filed or as modified, the assessment charges set forth in the Tentative Annual Report may not be levied for Fiscal Year 2016-2017. Therefore, the District would be unable to provide police services, park and roadside landscape maintenance, public street maintenance and street lighting services and an alternate source of funding would have to be identified.
CLERK'S ADDENDUM
CLOSED the public hearing; APPROVED the estimated assessment charges set forth in the Tentative Annual Report; ADOPTED Resolution No. 2016/347, confirming the Tentative Annual Report and assessing the charges set forth in the report; and DIRECTED the Public Works Director or her designee to prepare a Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Final Annual Report for CSA M-30 that conforms to the County’s official assessment roll for Fiscal Year 2016-2017.