HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Resolution 13190 (Baypoint Lagoons Landscaping & Lighting District)RESOLUTION NO. 13190
RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ORDER IMPROVEMENTS AND
SETTING PUBLIC HEARING ON ANNUAL ASSESSMENT FOR CITY
COUNCIL MEETING ON JULY 18, 2011
BAYPOINT LAGOONS LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING DISTRICT
(Pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972)
The City Council of the City of San Rafael resolves:
1. The City Council intends to levy and collect assessments within
Baypoint Lagoons Landscaping and Lighting District, City of San Rafael, Marin County,
California, during the fiscal year 2011-2012. The area of land to be assessed is located in
the City of San Rafael, Marin County.
2. The improvements to be made in this assessment district are generally
described as follows:
Creating, maintaining and monitoring open space habitat. Each year for the
foreseeable future, cattail and non-native plant removal will be undertaken to
enhance the habitat. In the future, a monitoring assessment will be completed to
document the effectiveness of the removal effort. The monitoring will be done in
accordance with the proposal for SPINNAKER LAGOON MANAGEMENT, as
prepared by Resource Management International, Inc. previously known as
Western Ecological Services Company, Inc., dated February 25, 1998, and the
letter dated November 28, 1999 by Wetlands Research Associates. A future
Report will reflect anticipated costs to provide funds for the monitoring program
necessary to demonstrate the contingent viability of the diked marsh area. Future
monitoring is the best way to demonstrate to interested agencies the success of the
mitigation program that is the responsibility of the District. In concert with this,
motor controls will be installed at the Cayes Pump Station to better regulate the
levels in the Lagoon.
3. In accordance with this Council's resolution directing the filing of an
Engineer's Annual Report, CSW/Stuber-Stroeh Engineering Group, Inc., Engineer of Work, has
filed with the City Clerk the report required by the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972. All
interested persons are referred to that report for a full and detailed description of the
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improvements, the boundaries of the assessment district and the proposed assessments upon
assessable lots and parcels of land within the assessment district.
year.
4. The proposed assessment does not increase the assessment from the previous
5. On Monday, the 18`h day of July, 2011 at the hour of 8:00 o'clock P.M., the
City Council will conduct a public hearing on the question of the levy of the proposed annual
assessment. The hearing will be held at the meeting place of the City Council located in the
Chambers of the City Council, 1400 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael, California.
6. The City Clerk is authorized and directed to give the notice of hearing
required by the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 by publishing a copy of this resolution
once in the Marin Independent Journal, publication to be completed not less than ten (10) days
before July 18, 2011.
I, ESTHER C. BEIRNE, Clerk of the City of San Rafael, hereby certify that the
foregoing resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the
Council of said City on the 5`h day of July, 2011, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Brockbank, Connolly, Heller, Levine & Mayor Boro
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ESTHER C. BEIRNE, City Clerk