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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-42 - Assessment District 101RESOLUTION NO. 2008- 42 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH GIVING PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO REVISED REPORT OF THE ASSESSMENT ENGINEER FOR ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 101 AND AN UNDERGROUND UTILITIES DISTRICT, SETTING A TIME AND PLACE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING THEREON, AND ORDERING THE INITIATION OF ASSESSMENT BALLOT PROCEDURES WHEREAS, this legislative body has instituted proceedings for the formation of a special assessment district designated as Assessment District No. 101 (hereinafter referred to as the `Assessment District ") to provide for the conversion of certain overhead electrical and communication facilities to underground locations, together with appurtenances and appurtenant work in connection therewith, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the "Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 ", being Division 12 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California (the "Act "); WHEREAS, the proceedings are also to ascertain whetherthe area comprising the Assessment District should be designated an underground utilities district; WHEREAS, this legislative body previously approved a Preliminary Report of the Assessment Engineer (the "Original Report") for the Assessment District as required by Sections 10203 and 10204 of the Act, The Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation, and Majority Protest Act of 1931, Article XIIID of the Constitution of the State of California ( "Article XIIID "), and the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (commencing with Section 53750 of the Government Code) (the "Implementation Act ") (the Act, Article XIIID, and the Implementation Act are referred to herein collectively as the "Assessment Law"); WHEREAS, there has been filed with and reviewed bythis legislative body a revised Preliminary Report of the Assessment Engineer dated as of May 27, 2008 (the "Revised Report"), which Revised Report corrects certain matters, including the spread of special assessments, in the Original Report; WHEREAS, this legislative body desires to supplant the Original Report with the superseding Revised Report, to reschedule a public hearing on the formation of the Assessment District and the designation of the Assessment District as an underground utilities district, and to reschedule a protest ballot proceeding on the formation of the Assessment District; NOW, THEREFORE, It is hereby Determined, Resolved, and Ordered as follows: SECTION 1. The above recitals are all true and correct. SECTION 2. The Revised Report is hereby adopted and preliminarily approved, as follows: A. The plans and specifications for the proposed improvements to be constructed, as contained in the Revised Report, are hereby preliminarily approved and adopted; S. The Assessment Engineer's estimate of the itemized and total costs and expenses of the construction of the improvements and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith contained in the Revised Report, and each of them are hereby preliminarily approved and adopted; C. The diagram showing the Assessment District referred to and described in the Resolution of Intention, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respective real property interests within the Assessment District, as the same existed at the time of the passage of said Resolution of Intention, each of which have been given a separate number upon the diagram, as contained in the Revised Report, is hereby preliminarily approved and adopted; D. The proposed assessment upon the several property interests in the Assessment District, in proportion to the estimated special benefits to be received by such property interests, respectively, from the improvements to be constructed, and of the incidental expenses thereof, as contained in the Revised Report, are hereby preliminarily approved and adopted; E. The descriptions of the improvements to be constructed contained in the Revised Report are hereby preliminarily approved. SECTION 3. The Revised Report shall stand as the Assessment Engineers Report for the purpose of all subsequent proceedings had pursuant to the Resolution of Intention. SECTION 4. NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the City Council of the City Of Newport Beach will hold a public hearing on the assessment district, the proposed assessments, and the designation of the area as an underground utilities district at its regular meeting place, being the Council Chambers at 3300 Newport Boulevard, Newport Beach, California, on July 22, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Pursuant to the provisions of the Assessment Law, each record owner of property that is subject to the assessment has the right to submit an assessment ballot in favorof or in opposition to the proposed assessment. Assessment ballots will be mailed to the record owner of each property interest located within the assessment district and subject to a proposed assessment. Each such owner may complete such ballot and thereby indicate their support for or opposition to the proposed assessment. All such ballots must be received by the City Clerk at the following address at or before the time set for the close of the public hearing: 2 City Clerk City of Newport Beach 3300 Newport Boulevard Newport Beach, CA 92663 A postmark prior to such date and time will not be sufficient. At the conclusion of the public hearing, the City Council shall cause the assessment ballots timely received to be opened and tabulated. If a majority protest exists, the City Council shall not impose an assessment within the assessment district. A majority protest exists if, upon the conclusion of the public hearing, assessment ballots submitted in opposition to the assessments within the assessment district exceed the ballots submitted in favor of such assessments. In tabulating the ballots, the ballots shall be weighted according to the proportional financial obligation of the affected property. SECTION 5. The City Clerk is hereby directed to mail or cause to be mailed, in the form and manner prescribed in the Assessment Law and at least 45 days prior to the date of the public hearing, notice of the public hearing and the adoption of the Resolution of Intention and of the filing of the Revised Report, together with the assessment ballot materials, to the record owners of all real property proposed to be assessed. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 27th day of May, 2008, by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ATTEST: fl STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE } as. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH } I, LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 2008 -42 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 27th day of May 2008, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: Henn, Rosansky, Daigle, Webb, Curry, Gardner, Mayor Selich Noes: None Absent. None Abstain: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 28th day of May 2008. (Seal) City Clerk Newport Beach, California