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Home My WebLink AboutRES CC 2025 4315 2025 0507 RESOLUTION NO. 2025-4315 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO CONTINUE ASSESSMENTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025/2026, PRELIMINARILY APPROVING ENGINEER'S REPORT, AND PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF HEARING FOR THE CITY OF MOORPARK LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS WHEREAS, on January 15, 2025, by Resolution No. 2025-4291, the City Council ordered the preparation of an Engineer's Report for the City's Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment Districts (the "Assessment Districts") for fiscal year 2025/2026; and WHEREAS, pursuant to said Resolution, the Engineer's Report was prepared by SCI Consulting Group, Engineer of Work, in accordance with 22565, et. seq., of the Streets and Highways Code (the "Report") and Article XIIID of the California Constitution; and WHEREAS, said Engineer's Report was filed with the City Clerk and the City Council has reviewed the Report and wishes to take certain actions relative to said Report and the levy of assessments recommended therein. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Report for "Moorpark Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment Districts", for the fiscal year commencing on July 1, 2025, and ending on June 30, 2026, on file with the City Clerk, has been duly considered by the Moorpark City Council and is hereby deemed sufficient and approved. The Report shall stand as the Engineer's Report for all subsequent proceedings under, and pursuant to, the foregoing resolution. SECTION 2. It is the intention of this Council to continue to collect assessments within the Assessment Districts for fiscal year 2025/2026. Within the Assessment Districts, the existing and proposed improvements, and any substantial changes proposed to be made to the existing improvements, are generally described as the installation, maintenance and servicing of public facilities, including but not limited to, street lights, public lighting facilities, landscaping, sprinkler systems, statuary, fountains, other ornamental structures and facilities, landscape corridors, ground cover, shrubs and trees, street frontages, drainage systems, fencing, entry monuments, graffiti removal and repainting, and labor, materials, supplies, utilities and equipment, as applicable, for property owned, operated or maintained by the City of Moorpark. Installation means the construction of lighting and landscaping improvements, including, but not limited to, land preparation, such as grading, leveling, cutting and filling, sod, landscaping, irrigation systems, sidewalks and drainage and lights. Maintenance means the furnishing of services and materials for the ordinary and usual maintenance, operation and servicing of said improvements, including repair, removal, or replacement of all or part of any Resolution No. 2025-4315 Page 2 improvement; providing for the life, growth, health and beauty of landscaping; and cleaning, sandblasting and painting of walls and other improvements to remove or cover graffiti. Servicing means the furnishing of electric current or energy for the operation or lighting of any improvements, and water for irrigation of any landscaping or the maintenance of any other improvements. SECTION 3. The Assessment Districts consists of the lots and parcels shown on the boundary maps of the Assessment Districts on file with the City Clerk, and reference is hereby made to such map for further particulars. SECTION 4. Reference is hereby made to the Engineer's Report for a full and detailed description of the improvements, the boundaries of the Assessment Districts, and the proposed assessments upon assessable lots and parcels of land within the Assessment Districts. The Engineer's Report identifies all parcels which will have a special benefit conferred upon them and upon which an assessment will be imposed. SECTION 5. The fiscal year 2025/26 maximum authorized levy rates are not proposed to increase, with the exception of Zone 12, District 14, District 15, District 16, District 18, District 19, District 20, District 21, District 22, District 24, District 25, District 26, District 31, District 32 and District 33. The authorized maximum assessment rate for these Districts includes an annual adjustment by an amount equal to the annual change in the Los Angeles/Long Beach/Anaheim Area Consumer Price Index (CPI). As the amount of the annual increase in the CPI from December 2023 to December 2024 is 3.42%, the authorized maximum levy rates for fiscal year 2025/26 are 3.42% above the maximum levy rate for fiscal year 2024/25. Including the authorized annual adjustment, the maximum authorized assessment rates for fiscal year 2025/26 are as follows: Zone 12 $771.64 per single family benefit unit $279.24 per acre of commercial or industrial property $2,515.57 per acre of institutional property District 14 $227.19 per single family benefit unit District 15 Zone A $2,406.53 per single family benefit unit District 15 Zone B $4,443.08 per single family benefit unit District 16 $662.19 per single family benefit unit District 18 $1,394.12 per single family benefit unit District 19 $3,345.99 per acre of commercial or industrial property District 20 $3,509.73 per single family benefit unit District 21 $590.81 per single family benefit unit District 21 Zone B $153.69 per single family benefit unit District 22 $4,378.89 per single family benefit unit District 24 $13,906.97 acre of commercial or industrial property District 25 $6,321.36 acre of commercial or industrial property District 26 $6,748.51 acre of commercial or industrial property District 31 $8,257.55 acre of commercial or industrial property District 32 $14,254.93 acre of commercial or industrial property District 33 $18,975.71 per single family benefit unit Resolution No. 2025-4315 Page 3 SECTION 6. Notice is hereby given that on June 4, 2025, at the hour of 6:30 p.m. at the Moorpark City Hall City Council Chamber Room, located at 323 Science Drive, Moorpark, California 93021, the Council will hold a public hearing to consider the ordering of the improvements and the continuation of the proposed assessments. SECTION 7. Prior to the conclusion of the hearing, any interested person may file a written protest with the City Clerk, or, having previously filed a protest, may file a written withdrawal of that protest. A written protest shall state all grounds of objection. A protest by a property owner shall contain a description sufficient to identify the property owned by such owner. Such protest or withdrawal of protest should be mailed to the City Clerk, City of Moorpark, 323 Science Drive, Moorpark, California 93021. SECTION 8. The City Clerk shall cause a notice of the hearing to be given by publishing a copy of this resolution once, at least ten (10) days prior to the date of the hearing above specified, in a newspaper circulated in the City of Moorpark. SECTION 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution and shall cause a certified resolution to be filed in the book of original resolutions. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of May, 2025. Chris R. Enegre , ayor ATTEST: OOP ♦09 Ky Sp gler, City Clerk 4 � 1) pirfrokorAi eo9.03, Resolution No. 2025-4315 Page 4 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF VENTURA ) ss. CITY OF MOORPARK ) CERTIFICATION I, Ky Spangler, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark, California, do hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing Resolution No. 2025-4315 was adopted by the City Council of the City of Moorpark at a regular meeting held on the 7th day of May, 2025, and that the same was adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Barrett, Castro, Delgado and Means and Mayor Enegren NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 12th day of May, 2025. Ky Sp , lei, Cit lerk (seal) 00.�41<. MII 14141PP Vos -arilleAt; f"w4.4,"' raPZ. �I44 ►o 9 w0 �7, JUL-�