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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009-12 - Assessment District 87 - Balboa IslandRESOLUTION NO. 2009- 12 RESOLUTION DECLARING INTENTION TO ORDER THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPOSED ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 87 (BALBOA ISLAND), DECLARING THE IMPROVEMENTS TO BE OF SPECIAL BENEFIT, DESCRIBING THE DISTRICT TO BE ASSESSED TO PAY THE COSTS AND EXPENSES THEREOF, PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS, AND TO DESIGNATE THE AREA AN UNDERGROUND UTILITIES DISTRICT WHEREAS, certain property owners owning more than one -half of the area of all assessable lands within the proposed assessment district have requested the formation of a special assessment district, to be designated as Assessment District No. 87 (Balboa Island) (the "Assessment District"), to provide for the conversion of certain overhead electrical and communication facilities to underground locations as described in the map hereinafter approved, together with appurtenances and appurtenant work in connection therewith, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the ordinances of the City of Newport Beach and the "Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 ", being Division 12 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California (the "Act"); WHEREAS, the City Clerk has issued a certificate of sufficing pursuant to Streets & Highways Code Section 5896.5; WHEREAS, this legislative body desires to ascertain whether the area comprising the Assessment District should also be designated an underground utilities district pursuant to Chapter 15.32 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Newport Beach (the "City"); WHEREAS, the conversion of the overhead electrical and communication facilities to underground locations, together with appurtenances and appurtenant work in connection therewith, is to be done to further public safety and welfare and to improve aesthetics within the area of the Assessment District; WHEREAS, this legislative body has been presented and has received a map (the "Map ") showing and describing the boundary of the area proposed to be assessed in the Assessment District; WHEREAS, the assessment proceedings for the Assessment District were initiated by owners of more than one -half of the assessable lands within the proposed assessment district of the real property within the Assessment District; NOW THEREFORE, Be it Determined, Resolved, and Ordered as follows: DECLARATION OF INTENTION SECTION 1. The public interest and convenience require, and it is the intention of this legislative body to order, pursuant to the Act, the construction of the public improvements hereinafter described in and for the Assessment District, to assess the cost thereof against the real property specially benefited thereby, and to designate the area an underground utilities district. DESCRIPTION OF IMPROVEMENTS SECTION 2. The public improvements to be constructed and the manner of the construction are generally described as follows: A. The improvements generally consist of the conversion of existing overhead electrical and communication facilities to underground locations within the area shown on the Map, together with appurtenances and appurtenant work thereto, all to serve and specially benefit the properties within Assessment District No. 87 (Balboa Island). B. All rights -of -way and easements required for the improvements shall be shown upon the plans to be made a part of the Assessment Engineer's Report (described below) and to be filed with these proceedings. C. All of the improvements to be constructed are to be installed at the places and in the particular locations, and to the sizes, dimensions and materials, and to the lines, grades and elevations, as shown and delineated upon the plans, profiles and specifications all to be made a part of the Assessment Engineer's Report. D. The description of the improvements contained in this Resolution is general and the plans and profiles of the work as contained in the Assessment Engineer's Report shall be controlling as to the correct and detailed description thereof. DESCRIPTION OF ASSESSMENT DISTRICT SECTION 3. The improvements are of special benefit to the real property within the Assessment District, and this legislative body hereby makes the expenses of the construction of such improvements chargeable upon the Assessment District that is described as follows: All real property and other territory in the proposed Assessment District included within the exterior boundary lines shown on the Map described above, which Map, entitled "Proposed Boundaries Assessment District No. 87 (Balboa Island)," was previously approved by this legislative body, exhibits the property specially benefited and proposed to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses of the construction of the work and improvements, and is on file with the transcript of these proceedings. For all particulars as to the boundaries of the Assessment District, reference is hereby made to the boundary Map. REPORT OF THE ASSESSMENT ENGINEER SECTION 4. The proposed improvements are hereby referred to Harris & Associates (the "Assessment Engineer") who is hereby directed to make and file a report as required by the Improvement Act, The Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation, and Majority Protest Act of 1931, Article XIIID of the Constitution of the State of California, and the Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (Government Code Section 53750), such report (the "Assessment Engineer's Report") shall be in writing and contain the following: A. Plans and specifications of the improvements proposed to be constructed; B. An estimate of the cost of the construction of the improvements proposed to be constructed, including the cost of the incidental expenses, in connection therewith; C. A diagram showing the Assessment District, which shall also show the boundaries and dimensions of the respective real property and other territory within such Assessment District, as the same existed at the time of the passage of this Resolution of Intention, each of which subdivisions shall be given a separate number upon such diagram; D. The proposed assessment of the assessable costs and expenses of the construction of the proposed improvements upon the real property in the Assessment District in proportion to the estimated special benefits to be received by the real property, respectively, from such improvements. Such assessment shall refer to such real property upon such diagram by the respective numbers thereof, E. The description of the improvements proposed to be constructed under these proceedings. When any portion or percentage of the assessable costs and expenses of the construction of the improvements is to be paid from sources other than assessments, the amount of such portion or percentage shall first be deducted from the total estimated costs and expenses of such construction, and such assessment shall include only the remainder of the estimated costs and expenses. The assessment shall refer to the subdivisions by their respective numbers as assigned pursuant to subparagraph D above. BONDS SECTION 5. Notice is hereby given that bonds to represent the unpaid assessments, and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed the current legal maximum rate, will be issued hereunder in the manner provided in the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 (Streets and Highways Code Section 8500, et seq.), which bonds shall be issued in one or more series, each with a term not to exceed the legal maximum term as authorized by law, namely, thirty-nine (39) years from the second day of September next succeeding twelve (12) months from their date. The provisions of Part 11.1 of the Act, providing an alternative procedure for the advance payment of assessments and the calling of bonds shall apply. The principal amount of the bonds maturing each year shall be other than an amount equal to an even annual proportion of the aggregate principal of the bonds, and the amount of principal maturing in each year, plus the amount of interest payable in that year, will be generally an aggregate amount that is equal each year, except for the first year's adjustment. Pursuant to the provisions of the Improvement Act and specifically Streets and Highways Code Section 10603, the Treasurer is hereby designated as the officer to collect and receive the assessments during the cash collection period. SECTION 6. Except as may otherwise be provided for in the issuance of the bonds described above, all of the improvements shall be constructed pursuant to the provisions of the Act. SURPLUS FUNDS SECTION 7. If any excess shall be realized from the assessment, it shall be used, in such amounts as the legislative body may determine, in accordance with the provisions of law for one or more of the following purposes: A. Transfer to the general fund; provided that the amount of any such transfer shall not exceed the lesser of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or five percent (5 %) of the total from the Improvement Fund; B. As a credit upon the assessment and any supplemental assessment; C. For the maintenance of the improvements; or D. To call bonds. IMPROVEMENT FUND SECTION 8. The legislative body hereby establishes a special improvement fund identified and designated by the name of this Assessment District, and into such fund monies may be transferred at any time to expedite the construction of the authorized improvements, and any such advancement of funds is a loan and shall be repaid out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds as authorized by law. PROCEEDINGS INQUIRIES SECTION 9. For any and all information relating to these proceedings, including information relating to protest procedure, your attention is directed to the person designated below: Alfred Castanon, Associate Engineer City of Newport Beach P.O. Box 1794 Newport Beach, California 92658 (949) 644 -3314 PUBLIC PROPERTY SECTION 10. All public property shall be subject to assessment in these proceedings. RIGHTS -OF -WAY SECTION 11. The public interest, convenience and necessity requires that certain land, rights -of -way or easements be obtained in order to allow the works of improvement as proposed for this Assessment District to be accomplished. The Assessment Engineer's Report, upon adoption, shall provide certification that the land, rights -of -way or easements have been acquired or will be acquired as part of the construction of the improvements. 4 NO CITY LIABILITY SECTION 12. This legislative body hereby declares the City will not obligate itself to advance available funds from the City treasury to cure any deficiency that may occur in the bond redemption fund for the Assessment District. ANNUAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSESSMENT SECTION 13. It is hereby declared that this legislative body proposes to levy an annual assessment pursuant to Section 10204 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California, such annual assessment to pay costs incurred by the City and not otherwise reimbursed which result from the administration and collection of assessments and from the administration and registration of assessment bonds and the related bond funds. UTIIdTY IMPROVEMENTS SECTION 14. Pursuant to Section 10110 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California, it is also the intention of this legislative body with respect to the improvements to be owned, managed, or controlled by any other public agency, regulated public utility, or mutual water company, prior to ordering the construction of improvements, to enter into an agreement with each public utility company or public agency, or any combination thereof with respect to the improvements to be owned, controlled or managed by the utility or agency. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular g of the rfyCouncil of the City of Newport Beach held on the 24th day of February, 2009. l ATTEST: (`PNCWW 'P Y Y u v City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE } as. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH } I, Leilani I. Brown, 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. 2009 -12 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 24th day of February, 2009, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: Henn, Rosansky, Curry, Webb, Gardner, Daigle, 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 25th day of February, 2009. (Seal) City Clerk Newport Beach, California