HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 5593-1971 RESOLUTION NO o 5593
A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ACQUIRE AND
CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS
GELLERT BOULEVARD EXTENSION PROJECT
ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of South
San Francisco, California, that .~
lo In its opinion the public interest and convenience
require and that it is the intention of said Council to
order the acquisitions and improvements in and for said City
as more particularly hereinafter .described.
2. To the extent that work, rights, improvements or
acquisitions, indicated in the Engineer's Report to be made
as provided herein, are shown to be connected to the facili-
ties, works or systems of, or are to be owned, managed and
controlled by any public agency other than this entity, or
of any public utility, it is the intention of this Council
to enter into an agreement or agreements with the public
agenCy or public utility or both, pursuant to Chapter 2
(commencing with Section 10100) of Division 12 of the Streets
and Highways Code, which agreement or agreements shall pro-
vide for the ownership.by said agency or utility of such
works, rights, improvements or acquisitions, and may provide
for the installation of all or a portion thereof by said
agency or utility and for the providing of service to the
properties in the area benefiting from said work, rights,
improvements cr acquisitions by said agency or utility in
accordance with its rates, rules and regulations, and that
said agreement or agreements shall become effective after pro-
ceedings have been taken for the levy of the assessments and
sale of bonds and funds are available to carry out the terms
of any such agreement or agreements.
3. Said acquisitions and improvements are as follows:
a)
The opening of an extension of Gellert Boulevard
from a present northerly stub of Gellert Boulevard
about 500 feet northerly of Westborough Boulevard
northerly to the intersection of existing Gellert
Boulevard and King Drive, and the improving thereof
by excavation, fills, grading, compaction, base
pavement, wearing surface, curbs, gutters, side-
walks, street lighting facilities, divider section
(including landscaping and irrigation facilities),
water mains, valves, hydrants, services and
appurtenances, fire alarm system, sanitary sewer
mains, manholes, wye branches, laterals and appur-
tenances, and storm drainage pipes, manholes,
catch basins and appurtenances, together with the
removal of unsuitable material from fill slope
areas and the construction of supporting fill
slopes as necessary to assure against subsidence
of the road section.
The construction of sanitary sewer mains, manholes,
and appurtenances in proposed public easements
from about the halfway point of the proposed new
road section southeasterly to and southerly along
the westerly boundary of the lands of the State of
California to an existing sewer of the Westborough
County Water District, together with the enlarge-
ment of the pumping capacity of the existing pump
station of said District to accommodate flows from
the proposed assessment district on the westerly
side of Westborough BoUlevard about 450 feet east-
erly of Gellert Boulevard.
c)
The construction of a storm drainage system of
pipes, manholes, catch basins and supporting
slopes and fills in proposed easements as required
to provide adequate storm drainage for said road
and other public areas.
The construction of traffic signalization facili-
ties at the intersection of Gellert Boulevard and
King Drive.
e)
The construction of underground electric and tele-
phone facilities and a gas distribution system,
title to which shall be vested in Pacific Gas and
Electric Company pursuant to appropriate agreement.
The acquisition of all lands and easements and the
construction of all improvements auxiliary to any
of the above and necessary to complete the same.
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4. Whenever any public way is herein referred to as
running between two public ways, or from or to any public
way, the intersections of the public ways referred to are
included to the extent that work shall be shown on the
plans to be done therein.
5. Said streets and highways are more particularly
shown in the records in the office of the County Recorder
of the County of San Mateo, California, and shall be shown
upon the plans herein referred to and to be filed with the
City Clerk of the City of South San Francisco.
6. All of said work and improvements are to be con-
structed at the places and in the particular locations, of
the forms, sizes, dimensions and materials
grades and elevations as shown and delineated upon the plans,
profiles and specifications to be made therefor~ as herein-
after provided°
7. There is to be excepted from the work herein
described any of such work already ~done to line and grade
and marked excepted or shown not to be done on said plans,
profiles and specifications.
8° Notice is hereby given of the fact that in many
cases said work and improvement will bring the finished work
to a grade different from that formerly existing, and that
to said extent said grades are hereby changed and that Said
work will be done to said changed grades.
9. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as
the official grades for said work the grades and elevations
to be shown upon said plans, profiles and specifications.
All such grades and elevations are to be in feet and decimals
thereof with reference to the datum plane of the City of
South San Francisco°
10o The descriptions of the acquisitions and improve-
ments and the termini of the work contained in this Reso-
lution are general in nature. All items of work do not
necessarily extend for the full length of the description
thereof. The plans and profiles of the work and maps and
descriptions, as contained in the Engineer's report, shall
be controlling as to the correct and detailed description
thereof.
ll. Said contemplated acquisitions and improvements,
in the opinion of this Council, are of more than local or
ordinary public benefit, and the costs and expenses thereof
are made chargeable upon an assessment district, the exte-
rior boundaries of which are the composite and consolidated
area as more particularly shown on a map thereof on file in
the office of the City Clerk, to which reference is hereby
made for further particulars. Said map indicates by a
boundary line the extent of the territory included in the
proposed district and shall govern for all details as to
the extent of the assessment district.
12. This Council further declares that all public
streets and highways within said assessment district in use
in the performance of a public function as such shall be
omitted from the assessment hereafter to be made to cover
the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements.
lB. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to repre-
sent the unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate of
not to exceed seven percent (7%) per annum, will be issued
hereunder in the manner provided in the Improvement Bond Act
of 1915, Division lO of the Streets and Highways Code, the
last installment of which bonds shall mature not to exceed
twenty-four (24) years from the second day of July next suc-
ceeding ten months from their date. The provisions of Part
11.1 of said Act providing an alternative procedure for the
advance payment of assessments and the calling of bonds,
shall apply.
14o Except as herein otherwise provided for the issu-
ance of bonds, all of said improvements shall be done pursuant
to the provisions of the Municipal Improvement Act of 19lB°
15o Reference is hereby made to proceedings had pursuant
to Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code on file in the
office of the City Clerk.
16. Said proposed acquisitions and improvements are
hereby referred to the Engineer of Work, being a competent
person employed by said City for that purpose; and said
Engineer is hereby directed to make and file with the City
Clerk a report in writing, presenting the following:
a) Plans and specifications of the proposed
improvements to be made pursuant to this Resolution of
Intention;
b) Engineer's statement of the itemized and total
estimated costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improve-
ments and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith;
c) Diagram showing the assessment district above
referred to, and also the boundaries and dimensions of the
respective subdivisions of land within said district as the
same existed at the time of the passage of this Resolution
of Intention, each of which subdivisions shall be given a
separate number upon said diagram;
d) A proposed assessment of the total amount of
the costs and expenses of the proposed acquisitions and im-
provements upon the several subdivisions of land in said
district in proportion to the estimated benefits to be
received by such subdivisions, respectively, from said acqui-
sitions and improvements, and of the expenses incidental
thereto; and
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e) Maps and descriptions of the lands and ease-
ments to be acquired.
When any portion or percentage of the cost and
expenses of the acquisitions and improvements is to be paid
from sources other than assessments, the amount of such por-
tion or percentage shall first be deducted from the total
estimated cost and expenses of said acquisitions and improve-
ments, and said assessment shall include only the remainder
of the estimated cost and expenses. Said assessment shall
refer to said subdivisions by their respective numbers as
assigned pursuant to subdivision (c) of this Section.
17o Notice is hereby given that in the opinion of this
Council, the public interest will not be served by allowing
the property owners to take the contract for the conStruction
of the improvements, and that pursuant to Section 10502.4 of
the Streets and Highways Code, no notice of award of contract
shall be published.
18o If any excess shall be realized from the assessment
it shall be used, in such amounts as the Council may deter-
mine, in accordance with the provisions of law, for one or
more of the following purposes:
a) Transfer to the general fund of the City
provided that the amount of any such transfer shall not
exceed the lesser of $1,000 or 5% of the total amount ex-
pended from the improvement fund;
b) As a credit upon the assessment and any sup-
plemental assessment; or
c) For the maintenance of the improvements.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was
regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of the
City of South San Francisco at a regmlar meeting
held this sixth day of Jmly , 19 71, by the
following vote:
AYES, COUNCILMEN Patrick E. Ahera~ Frank
NOES, Nome
ABSENT, None
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