HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Reso No 2015-020 City Council ResoRESOLUTION NO. 2015 -020
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE
ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA, MAINTAINING COUNTY SERVICE AREA
152 AND AUTHORIZING THE BENEFIT ASSESSMENT UNIT RATE
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015 -2016 FOR THE CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE
TO FUND THE CITY'S NATIONAL POLLUTION DISCHARGE
ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the County of Riverside established a Community Service Area,
(CSA) 152, for the purpose of collecting parcel charges for National Pollutant..
Discharge Elimination System ( "NPDES ") services within its boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the County of Riverside annexed the City of Lake Elsinore into
CSA 152 in 1994, thereby providing the City a funding source for its NPDES program
activities; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that the proposed CSA 152 parcel charge
is a benefit assessment; and
WHEREAS, the existing parcel charge is $8.24 per Benefit Assessment Unit;
and
WHEREAS, the City desires to adjust the 2015 -2016 parcel charge rate to
$13.88 per Benefit Assessment Unit to continue to fund the activities mandated by the
Environmental Protection Agency and State Water Resources Control Board through
the NPDES Permits; and
WHEREAS, Section 5(a) of Article XIIID of the California Constitution states
that existing assessments on the effective date of Article XIIID imposed exclusively to
finance the capital costs or maintenance and operation expenses flood control and
drainage systems are exempt from the provisions of Article XIIID; and
WHEREAS, Section 5(a) of Article XIIID of the California Constitution also
states that future increases to an exempt assessment are subject to the provisions of
Article XIIID; and
WHEREAS, the proposed changes to the annual assessment do not exceed
the maximum assessment established in 1994 and does not constitute an increase in
assessment for purposes of Article XIIID.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA,
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DECLARE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The above recitals are true and correct.
SECTION 2. That the City of Lake Elsinore continue participation in CSA
152.
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SECTION 3. That the City of Lake Elsinore requests that the County of
Riverside levy for 2015 -2016 a parcel charge in the amount of $13.88 per Benefit
Assessment Unit.
SECTION 4. The
City
Clerk shall
certify to the passage and adoption of this
resolution
and the same
shall
thereupon
take
effect and
be in force.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a
Council of the City of Lake Elsinore, California, tJa"
ATTEST:
irgini Blo , City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
G�:Jvv
David Mann, Assistant City Attorney
far meeting of the City
of March 2015.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE )
I, Virginia Bloom, City Clerk of the City of Lake Elsinore, California, do hereby certify
that Resolution No. 2015 -020 was adopted by the City Council of the City of Lake
Elsinore, California, at a Regular meeting held on the 24th day of March 2015, and that
the same was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Council Member Johnson, Mayor Pro Tern Tisdale, Council Member
Magee, Council Member Hickman and Mayor Manos
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
Vir in a Blo m, City Clerk