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SUBJECT: RIVERVIEW FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BENEFIT
ASSESSMENT- INCREASE NOTICE AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE
Specific Request(s) or Recommendations(s) & Background & Justification
RECOMMENDATION.
Approve Notice and notification procedures for the proposed Riverview Fire Protection
District benefit assessment increase.
REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND:
On April 13, 1991, your Board approved the report of the County Administrator which
recommended an amendment to the Riverview Fire Protection District's Five Year
Financing Plan and an increase in the annual benefit assessment from. $15 per unit
(single family residence) to $39 per unit. Multiples of the $39 unit assessment fee
will be applied to other types of structures.
In 1987, the Board approved a benefit assessment in the amount of $15 per unit for the
Riverview Fire , Protection District to fund the addition of eleven firefighters to
staff' the new station 88 in Antioch. Because of increased salary and benefits
increases and. other operating cost increases, the $15 fee is no longer adequate to
fund station 88 staffing. The. proposed benefit _assessment increase provides for the
continued funding of station 88.
The amendment- to the. Five Year .Financing Plan provides for a new station in Pittsburg.
The new station is needed to maintain adequate response time throughout the District.
The new station is in the final design stages and is expected to be operational in
early 1992. Accordingly, -it will be necessary to hire an additional eleven
firefighters. The proposed benefit assessment increase will fund these new employees
as well as some support staff and certain other operating costs.
Your Board also directed the initiation of procedures leading to the adoption of the
assessment increase. The procedures require that notices be mailed to all property
owners in the District notifying them about the proposed assessment increase and the
hearing on the matter scheduled for June 11, 1991.
The notices will be mailed first class in window envelopes with the District's return
address and the statement "Important Notice" printed on the envelopes, An example of
the notice is attached for your review and approval. In addition to the mailing, the
notice will be . posted in at least three public places within the District and
published in local newspapers.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES Signature:
X Recommendation of County Administrator
Recommendation of Board Committee
X Approve Other
S�nature(s):
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Action of Board on: May 21 , 1991 Approved as Recommended -X Other X�
General Services Department will take responsibility for
mailing notice&.
Vote of Supervisors: I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
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Unanimous (Absent. - ) AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE
Ayes: Noes: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN.
Absent: Abstain:
Attested: May 21., 1991
cc; County Administrator Phil Batchelor, Clerk of
County Counsel the Board of Supervisors
Auditor-Controller and County Administrator
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BRIEF SUMMARY OF REPORT ON PROPOSED ASSESSMENTS
State law permits the levying of annual assessments to pay for
additional fire suppression resources. Such assessments 'can only
be levied after certain procedures are followed, including the
holding of a public hearing on the subject. In order to propose
such assessments, ' a fire district must develop evidence that the
present resources used to provide fire suppression services are
over-extended and inadequate.
The fire district that serves you has prepared various, reports and
plains which indicate that it cannot provide emergency services to all
areas of the district . within reasonable time standards due. to' lack of
fire stations, apparatus and personnel. Despite the significant
growth in homes, apartments_, commercial and office buildings, the
district has added only one fire station in the past fourteen years.
The district has prepared specific plans for addressing the
problem. Included are provisions for new and relocated firestations
In 1988 the district utilized fees placed on new construction
(development) to provide fire station facilities in the City of
Antioch . The Firefighters staffing this station are financed by
assessment fees. Without the assessment fee, the district cannot
continue to operate this station. In 1992, an additional fire
station will be constructed in the City of Pittsburg using new
construction (development) fees. There is, however, no realistic
way to finance the -cost of the additional Firefighters required to
staff this new station without the proposed assessment. The proposed
Assessment Fee will provide for the operation of both fire stations.
The Riverview Fire Commission, with representation from the Cities
of Antioch and Pittsburg, industrial businesses and the unincorporated
areas of the Fire District, has approved the Fire Station Plan and
the proposed Fire Suppression Assessments.
Presented below are a few samples of proposed annual assessments
for various types of property. Under state law, the amount of the
assessment must be related to the relative fire risk represented by
each type of property. Information relating to your specific
property can be obtained, as indicated on the reverse side of this
summary report:
FISCAL YEAR 1991-92
Type of Property Assessment Cost to Property Owner*
Vacant Lot $ 19.50
Single Family home $ 39.00
Duplex $ 78.00
Drive-in restaurant $ 117.00
Apartment house with 13-24 units $ 273.00
Heavy industry $ 390.00
,*5ubseauent Years
In order to keep the assessment on each parcel in constant first year
dollars for each Fiscal Year after 1991-1992, the assessment may be
adjusted annually to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index.