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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 39-1979 ,1957A ., JHHW:KIJ:pl 04/10/79 RESOLUTION NO. 39-79 A RESOLUTION ADOPTING ENGINEER'S REPORT, CONFIRMING THE ASSESSMENT AND ORDERING THE WORK AND ACQUISITIONS, DIRECTING RECORDING AND FILING OF ASSESSMENT, ASSESSMENT DIAGRAM AND NOTICE OF ASSESS- MENT, APPOINTING COLLECTION OFFICER, AND PROVIDING FOR NOTICE TO PAY ASSESSMENTS CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PROJECT NO. ST-79-1 BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco, County of San Mateo, California, that WHEREAS, on January 3, 1979, this City Council adopted Resolution No. 2-79, A Resolution of Intention to Make Improvements, and therein directed the City Engineer to make and file a report in writing in accordance with and pursuant to the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913; WHEREAS, said report was duly made and filed, and duly considered by this City Council and found to be sufficient in every particular, whereupon it was determined that said report should stand as the Engineer's Report for all subsequent proceedings under and pursuant to the aforesaid resolution, and April 18, 1979, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock p.m., in the regular meeting place of this City Council, West Orange Avenue Library Auditorium, 840 West Orange Avenue, San Francisco, California, were appointed as the time and place for hearing protests in relation to said proposed acquisitions and improvements, notices of which hearing were duly and regularly posted, mailed and published; and WHEREAS, said hearing was duly and regularly held, and all persons interested desiring to'be heard were given an opportunity to be heard, and all matters and things pertaining to said acquisitions and improvements were fully heard and considered by this City Council, and all protests, both written and oral, were duly heard, considered and overruled, and this City Council thereby acquired jurisdiction to order said acquisitions and improvements and the confirmation of said diagram and assessment to pay the costs and expenses thereof. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS FOUND, DETERMINED AND ORDERED, as follows: 1. That the owners of one-half of the area to be assessed for the cost of the project did not, at or prior to the time fixed for said hearing, file written protests against the said proposed acquisitions and improvements or the grades at which said work is. proposed to be done, as a whole or as to any part thereof, or against the said proposed acquisitions and improvements or the grades at which said work is proposed to be done, as a whole or as to any part thereof, or against the said district or the extent thereof to be assessed for the costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements as a whole, or as to any part thereof, or against the engineer's estimate of costs and expenses, in whole or in part, or against the maps and description, in whole or in part, or against the diagram or the assessment to pay for the costs and expenses thereof, in whole or in part. 2. That the public interest, convenience and necessity require that said acquisitions and improvements be made. 3. That the district benefited by said acquisitions and improvements and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses 'thereof, and the exterior boundaries thereof, are as shown by a map thereof filed in the office of the City Clerk on March 7, 1979, which map is made a part hereof by reference thereto. 4. That said Engineer's Report as a whole and each part thereof, to wit: (a) the plans and specifications for the proposed improvements; (b) the maps and descriptions of the lands and easements to be acquired, if any;' (c) the engineer's estimate of the itemized and total costs and expenses of said acquisitions and improvements, and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith; (d) the diagram showing the assessment district and the boundaries and dimensions of the respective subdivisions of land within said district; and (e) the assessment of the total amount of the costs and expenses of the proposed acquisitions and improvements upon the several subdivisions of land in said district in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by said subdivisions, respectively, from said acquisitions and improvements, and of the expenses incidental thereto, are finally approved and confirmed. 5. That final adoption and approval of the Engineer's Report as a whole, and of the plans and specifications, maps and descriptions of the lands and easements to be acquired, estimate of the costs and expenses, the diagram and the assessment, as contained in said report, as hereinabove determined and ordered, is intended to and shall refer and apply to said report, or any portion thereof, as amended, modified, or revised or corrected by, or pursuant to and in accordance with, any resolution or order, if any, heretofore duly adopted or made by this City Council. 6. That said acquisitions and improvements be made, and that said assessment to pay the costs and expenses thereof is hereby levied. For further particulars pursuant to the provisions of said Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, reference is hereby made to said Resolution of Intention. 7. That based on the oral and documentary evidence, including said Engineer's Report, offered and received at said protest hearing, this City Council expressly finds and determines (a) that each of said several subdivisions of land will be specially benefited by said acquisitions and improvements at least in the amount, if not more than the amount, of the assessment apportioned against said subdivisions of land, respectively, and (b) that there is substantial evidence to support, and the weight of said evidence preponderates in favor of, the aforesaid finding and determination as to special benefits. 8. That the City Clerk shall forthwith: (a) deliver said assessment to the Superintendent of Streets, together with said diagram, as approved and confirmed by this City Council, with said City Clerk's certificate of such confirmation and of the date thereof attached thereto; (b) cause a copy of said assessment diagram and a notice of assessment, executed by said Clerk, to be filed and recorded, respectively, in the office of the County Recorder of the County of San Mateo, such notice to be in substantially the form provided in Section 3114 of the Streets and Highways Code. Said Superintendent of Streets shall record said assessment and diagram in his office in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose, and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording, and such recordation shall be and constitute the assessment roll herein. From the date of recording of said notice of assessment, all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of such assessment, and each of such assessments shall thereupon be a lien upon the property against which it is made, and unless sooner discharged such liens shall so continue for the period of four (4) years from the date of said recordation, or in the event bonds are issued to represent said assessments, then such liens shall continue until the expiration of four (4) years after the due date of the last installment upon said bonds or of the last principal coupon attached thereto. The appropriate officer or officers are hereby authorized to pay any and all fees required by law in connection with the above. 9. That the Director of Finance of this City is appointed Collection Officer for, and the person to whom payment of, said assessments shall be' made, and that his office at City Hall, 400 Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, California, is designated as the place at which the said payments will be made, and the Superintendent of Streets is hereby relieved of all responsibility in connection with collecting assessments. Said Collection Officer, upon said recording of the assessment and diagram, shall cause NOtice to Pay Assessments to be mailed and published. Said notice shall state that the assessment has been recorded, as provided in Section 10402 of the Streets and Highways Code, and the date thereof, that all sums assessed therein are due and payable immediately and payment thereof is to be made to the Collection Officer at his office within 30 days after said date of recording and assessment, and the effect of failure to pay within such time, including the fact that bonds will be issued pursuant to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915 to represent and upon the security of said assessments which are not paid within said 30-day period; and, in addition, said notice to be mailed shall contain a designation by street number or other description of the proporty assessed sufficient to identify same and the amount of the assessment thereon. Said mailed notice shall be mailed to each owner of real property within the assessment district at his last known address as the same appears on the tax rolls of the County of San Mateo, or on file in the office of or as known to the City Clerk, or to both addresses if said address is not the same, or to the general delivery when no address so appears; and said published notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks (with at least five days intervening between the respective publication dates, not counting such dates) in the Enterprise Journal, a newspaper published and circulated in the City of South San Francisco. I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the Council of the City of South San Francisco, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 18th day of April , 1979, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Counc i lmembers NOES: Counc i lmembers Ronald G. Acosta, Emanuele N. Damonte, Terry J. Mirri; Roberta Cerri Teglia None ABSENT: Councilmembers None ABSTAIN' Councilmembers William A. Borba ATTEST: City Clerk