TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Steven Lederer, Director of Public Works
REPORT BY: Kat Chambers, Staff Services Analyst II
SUBJECT: County Service Area No. 3 - Adoption of Resolution accepting Preliminary Engineer's Report, approving service plan, and setting a public hearing to levy assessments for Fiscal Year 2025-26
RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt a Resolution to accept Preliminary Engineer's Report, approve the service plan, and schedule the public hearing for June 17, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. to levy assessments of $147,166 to fund services in County Service Area No. 3 for Fiscal Year 2025-26. (Fiscal Impact: $147,166 Revenue; County Service Area No. 3; Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
In 1997, County Service Area (CSA) No. 3 property owners held a Proposition 218 election that approved an assessment methodology that included enhanced fire service and street services (median landscaping, street sweeping, and street lighting). The methodology included ceilings on expenditures for street-related services, but did not include an inflation adjuster. Over time, rising prices 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.
In 2023, CSA No. 3 property owners were asked to reauthorize the tax assessment and assessment methodology, which necessitated a Proposition 218 election held on July 18, 2023. The property owners voted 63% in favor of continuing and increasing the assessment for County-provided street services (including eliminating the expenditure ceilings). The Board of Supervisors determined enhanced structural fire protection services were no longer necessary in CSA No. 3, and did not submit that assessment to the property owners for a vote. CSA No. 3 property owners are now covered by the County's basic fire service that does not require an assessment specific to CSA No. 3....
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