REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve the Annual Engineer's Report, Confirm the Assessment, and Levy Annual Assessment for the Downtown Parking Maintenance District Assessment for Fiscal Year 2014/15
Report
BACKGROUND
The operation and maintenance expense of certain downtown parking areas are supported by the Downtown Parking Maintenance District assessment. On July 28, 2009, in response to property owners ballot approval, the City council adopted Resolution #398-09 (RTC09-196) to levy assessment for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009/10 and for each fiscal year thereafter by adjusting the annual assessment rate based upon the previous year's change in the Consumer Price Index.
On June 24, 2014, the City Council adopted a resolution declaring its intention to levy and collect an assessment for the Downtown Parking Maintenance District for FY 2014/15, approving the preliminary Engineer's Report and setting July 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm as the date and time for public hearing on the levy of the proposed assessment.
EXISTING POLICY
Council Resolution 6643, dated September 1, 1964 authorized the City to levy an annual assessment on all lands and improvements within the Parking District to pay debt service, operations, maintenance, and improvement costs.
Municipal Code Section 19.46.010: Areas and facilities required - location: the owner or occupant of land or buildings used for any purpose in any zoning district, except uses within the boundaries of a parking district created by the action of the city council, shall provide off-street parking and loading areas and facilities which conform to the regulations set forth herein.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
Adoption of the subject resolution is not a project within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act as the Act does not apply to governmental funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities.
DISCUSSION
Francisco & Associates, Inc. (the Assessment Engineer) prep...
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