HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 06222010 - C.26RECOMMENDATION(S):
WAIVE second reading and ADOPT Ordinance 2010-09 entitled “Levy of Special Taxes
within the County of Contra Costa Community Facilities District No. 2010-1(Countywide
Street Lighting).
FISCAL IMPACT:
None. Consultant costs required to establish the Community Facilities District will be
covered by County Street Lighting funds. All costs of administering the District would be
covered by the voter approved special tax.
BACKGROUND:
Mello-Roos Community Facilities Districts are a mechanism to finance infrastructure and
services for approved development projects. A voter approved special tax may be used to
pay for eligible services, or to pay debt service on tax-exempt bonds issued by the District.
The County adopted financing policies to guide the formation of Community Facilities
Districts on September
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 06/22/2010 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I
Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II
Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
ABSENT:Susan A. Bonilla, District IV
Supervisor
Contact: Jim Kennedy, 5-7225
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: June 22, 2010
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: EMY L. SHARP, Deputy
cc:
C. 26
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Catherine Kutsuris, Conservation & Development Director
Date:June 22, 2010
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Community Facility District No. 2010-1 (Countywide Street Lighting)
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
13, 1994.
The Contra Costa County Public Works Department provides street lighting operations
and maintenance throughout the County’s unincorporated areas. The cost of providing
these services is currently covered through County Service Area (CSA) L-100. CSA
L-100 does not include provisions for upgrades, inflation or increasing costs of
maintenance. Additionally, CSA L-100 requires developing properties to annex to L-100.
This requires a LAFCO process which can be time consuming and expensive.
Establishing a CFD is not subject to LAFCO law, nor is the subsequent annexation of
additional parcels to the CFD subject to LAFCO. The Community Facilities District will
provide sufficient revenue to provide street lighting services on an ongoing basis, as well
as a more streamlined process for meeting the County’s permit requirements related to
street lighting for new parcels and subdivisions.
Specifically, the CFD funds generated will be eligible to cover expenses for obtaining,
constructing, furnishing, replacing, operating and maintaining street lighting equipment,
apparatus, or facilities, paying the salaries and benefits of personnel and related
expenses, and for establishing reserves for cash flow, repairs, replacement and for the
future provision of services. The services funded by the CFD are in addition to those
provided in the territory before the creation of the CFD. The special tax will include two
zones:
• Zone 1, the higher of the two taxes, includes taxable parcels located near or adjacent to
street lights; and
• Zone 2 includes taxable parcels with no street light located nearby or adjacent to the
taxable parcel. These taxable parcels receive a lower tax because they do benefit from
street lights located along the major arterial roadways throughout the unincorporated
county.
On May 11, 2010, the Board of Supervisors adopted a Resolution of Intention relating to
the establishment of a Community Facilities District No. 2010-1 (Resolution 2010/256).
On June 15, 2010, the Board of Supervisors took comment and closed the public hearing,
conducted the Special Election at which time the property owners voted to approve the
formation of the District. The Board then adopted various implementing resolutions:
Resolution 2010/335 a Resolution of Formation of Contra Costa County Community
Facilities District No. 2010-1 (Countywide Street Lighting); Resolution 2010/358, a
Resolution Calling Special Election Within Community Facilities District Number
2010-1 (Countywide Street Lighting); and Resolution 2010/359, a Resolution Declaring
Results of Special Election and Directing Recording Notice of Special Tax Lien for
Community Facilities District Number 2010-1 (Countywide Street Lighting). The Board
of Supervisors also held first reading of Ordinance 2010-09 on June 15, 2010.
The action today is to adopt Ordinance 2010-09 entitled “Ordinance Levying Special
Taxes Within the County of Contra Costa Community Facilities District No. 2010-1
(Countywide Street Lighting)”. The recommended actions conform to the requirements
of the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982, as amended (Chapter 2.5 of Part 1
of Division 2 of Title 5, commencing at Section 53311 of the California Government
Code).
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
ATTACHMENTS
CFD No. 2010-1 Street Lighting Ordinance