TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Jennifer Palmer, Director of Housing and Homeless Services
REPORT BY: Alex Carrasco, Staff Service Analyst
SUBJECT: Public Hearing to consider objections and tabulate assessment ballots, and adopt a resolution to impose assessments for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 for County Service Area No. 4 (CSA 4) - Farmworker Housing
RECOMMENDATION
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PUBLIC HEARING 9:30 AM
Director of Housing and Homeless Services requests the following relating to County Service Area No. 4 (CSA 4) - Farmworker Housing:
1. Open Public Hearing to consider any objections or protests with respect to the proposed reauthorization and extension of CSA 4 assessments and the proposed assessment for Fiscal Year 2022-2023;
2. Close Public Hearing and recess the meeting on the item in order to direct and allow the Clerk of the Board or Clerk's designees to tabulate ballots from qualifying landowners on the proposal to reauthorize and extend the imposition of assessments for an additional five years through Fiscal Year 2026-2027; and
3. Reconvene the meeting on the item, receive the certified ballot results and, depending on the outcome of the balloting, adopt a resolution acknowledging the property owners' approval of the extension and reauthorization of CSA 4 assessments for five years through Fiscal Year 2026-2027, and levying assessments for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 on qualifying property owners in the amount of $12.00 per planted acre.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In 2002, the Board of Supervisors created CSA 4 to provide funding for farmworker housing programs. Qualifying property owners subject to the Assessments of CSA 4 approved the imposition of Assessments in 2002, and every five years thereafter. Five years is the maximum period of time the Assessments can be imposed without obtaining qualifying property owners consent and reauthorization of the Assessments through the ballot process. Reauthorization of the Assessments was last approved through the ballot process in...
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