TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Steven Lederer, Director of Public Works
REPORT BY: Michael Karath, Staff Services Analyst II
SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2024-25 - County Service Area No. 3 Budget and Assessments Hearing
RECOMMENDATION
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PUBLIC HEARING 2:00 PM -Fiscal Year 2024-25 County Service Area No. 3 (CSA No. 3) Assessment and Budget
Conduct a public hearing to consider testimony on the Fiscal Year 2024-25 assessment of $143,312 and adopt a resolution authorizing and levying the assessment, and on the recommended budget for a total appropriation of $387,650. (Fiscal Impact: $233,610 net expense; CSA No. 3; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
In 1997, CSA No. 3 property owners held a Proposition 218 election that approved an assessment methodology that included expenditure ceilings for street services (median landscaping, street sweeping, and street lighting). Over time, however, inflation eroded the buying power under the ceilings, leaving CSA No. 3 unable to make periodic repair, replacement, and upgrades of aging streetlights and neglected landscape medians and unable to attract vendors for some street services.
Pursuant to a Proposition 218 ballot process conducted on July 18, 2023, property owners in CSA No. 3 authorized a new assessment and methodology for street services, approved by the Board of Supervisors in Resolution No. 2023-95. Enhanced structural fire protection services that had been provided in CSA No. 3 was discontinued.
On May 21, 2024, the "Engineer's Report" for FY 2024-25 was submitted to the Board in compliance with Chapter 3.10 of the Napa County Code. After receiving the report, the Board, by resolution, declared the County's intent to levy assessments for CSA No. 3, set June 11, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. for a public hearing to consider any protests to the proposed assessments, and designated Michael Karath of the Public Works Department as the person to answer questions regarding the assessments.
The Engineer's Report proposes a total ass...
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