TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Jennifer Palmer, Director of Housing and Homeless Services
REPORT BY: Alex Carrasco, Staff Services Analyst
SUBJECT: Public Hearing and Consideration of a Resolution to Impose Assessments for Fiscal Year 2024-25 for County Service Area No. 4 (CSA 4) - Farmworker Housing
RECOMMENDATION
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PUBLIC HEARING - County Service Area No. 4 Assessment
Conduct a public hearing to consider any objections or protests with respect to the proposed assessment for Fiscal Year 2024-25 and adopt a resolution authorizing and levying assessments for Fiscal Year 2024-25 on qualifying property owners in the amount of $14 per planted acre. (Fiscal Impact: $663,614 Revenue; County Service Area No. 4 Fund, Budgeted, Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
In 2002, the Board of Supervisors created County Service No. 4 (CSA 4) to provide funding for farmworker housing programs. Funding is achieved for the programs through the imposition and collection of assessments ("Assessments") on parcels of real property in CSA 4 containing one or more planted vineyard acres that receive special benefits from the services rendered by farmworkers who are housed through this program. In 2022, affected property owners authorized and extended the CSA 4 program and the imposition of Assessments for a five-year period through Fiscal Year 2026-2027. Five years is the maximum period of time the Assessments for CSA 4 can be imposed without obtaining qualifying property owners' consent to a reauthorization of the Assessments for an additional five-year period.
On May 7, 2024, the Board adopted Resolution No. 2024-42 (NCHA), which accepted the Engineer's Report for CSA 4 dated April 17, 2024 ("Report"). The Report includes a description of each parcel of real property benefitting from CSA 4 services and the amount of the Assessment for such parcel computed in conformity with County Service Area law and Napa County Code sections 3.12.030 and 3.12.040. The Board's resolution set ...
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