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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - City Council - 79-175 - 1979-05-01Pub ! c L"kor$cs RESOLUTION NO. 79- Imo„_. A RESOLUTION PRELIMINARILY APPROVING ENGINEER'S REPORT AND APPOINTING TIME AND PLACE OF HEARING PROTESTS IN THE MATTER OF CITY OF FRESNO ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 79 RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Fresno.. California, that WHEREAS, on the 20th day of March, 1979, said Council did adopt its Resolution of Intention to order improvements to be made in said City and to make the costs and expenses thereof chargeable upon an assessment district and did refer the proposed improvements and acquisitions to the Engineer of Work of said District, and did direct said Engineer of Work to make and file with the City Clerk or said City a report in writing, as more particularly described in said resolution, pursuant to Article 20, Chapter 15, of the Fresno Municipal, Code and WHEAEASt said Engineer of Work has made and filed with the City Clerk of said City a report in writing as called for in said resolution of intention, which report has been presented to this Council for consideration, and WHEREAS, said Council has duly considered said report and finds that each and every part of said report is sufficient, and that neither said report, nor any part thereof, requires or should be modified in any respect. NOW P THEREFORE.- IT IS ORDERED, AS FOLLOWS t 1. That the plans and specifications of the proposed work and improvements to ,be made, contained in said report he, and they are hereby, preliminarily approved and confirmed 2. That the Engineer's estimate of the costs and expenses of the work, acquisitions and improvements and of the incidental expenses in connection therewith, contained in said report, be, and each of them is hereby, preliminarily approved and confirmed. CA. 3. That the diagram showing the assessment district referred to and described in said Resolution of Intention and also the boundaries and dimensions of the respective subdivisions of land within said assessment district as the same existed at the time of the passage of said Resolution of Intention, each of which: subdivisions has been given a separate number upon such diagram, as contained in said report, be, and it is hereby,, preliminarily approved and confirmed. 4. That the proposed assessments upon the several subdivisions of land in said assessment district, in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by such subdivisions, respectively, from said work, acquisitions and improvements, and of the incidental expenses thereof, as contained in said report, be and they are hereby, preliminarily approved and confirmed. 5. That said report shall stand as the Engineer's Report for the purpose of all subsequent proceedings and pursuant to said Resolution of Intention. 5. That Tuesday, the 19th day of June, 1979, at the hour of 2e00 P.M., in the regular meeting place of this Council, Council. Chambers, City Hall, Fresno, California, be and the same are hereby fixed as the time and place when and where this Council will hear and consider protests to the proposed work and improvements, the extent of the assessment district, or to the proposed assessment. Any interested person may object to the proposed work, acquisitions and improvements, the extent of the assessment district, or the proposed assessment, by filing a written protest with the City Clerk at or before said time set for hearing, and said City Clerk shall endorse on each protest the date of its receipt and at said time fixed for said hearing, shall present to the Council all protests filed with said City Clerk. 7. The Department of Public Works (Consulting Services Division) of the City of Fresno is designated as the City Department to answer inquiries regarding the protest proceedings. -2 ` w j 8. The City Clerk of this City is hereby directed to give notice of said hearing on the Resolution of Intention and Engineer's Report by publications twice in the Fresno Bee, a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in said City, and by conspicuously posting a notice thereof along all the open streets within the assessment district at not more than three hundred (300) feet apart, and not less than. three (3) in all, said posting and first publication to be had and completed at least ten (10) days before the date therein set for hearing of protests. Said posted notices shall be headed "Notice of Improvement" in letters of not less than ; one-half (1/2) inch in height and shall, in legible characters, state the fact and date of the passage of said Resolution of Intention and of the filing of said Engineer's Report, and of the date, hour, and place set for the hearing of said protests, briefly describe the improvements and acquisitions proposed to be made, refer to said Resolution of Intention and the Engineer's Report for further particulars, and stage the name and telephone number of the City Department designated to answer inquiries regarding the protest proceedings. 9. The Clerk shall mail or cause to be mailed notice of the adoption of said Resolution of Intention and the filing of said report, postage prepaid, at least ten (10) days before the date set for hearing of said protests, to all persons owning real property to be assessed, whose names and addresses appear on the last equalized assessment roll for City taxes prior thereto or as known to the Clerk, which notice shall contain a statement of the time, place, and purpose of the hearing on said Resolution of Intention, and report, a statement of the total estimated cost of the proposed improvements, and acquisitions` and the amount, as shown by said report, to be assessed against the particular parcel covered by the notice, a statement that any person interested may file a protest in writing as provided in said code, and a statement of the name and telephone number of the City Department designated to answer inquiries regarding the protest proceedings. -3- CLERK'S CERTIFICATE I, J"ACQUELINE L. RYLE, City Clerk of the City of Fresno, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of the City of Fresno at a regular meeting held on the Ist day of May , 1979, at the City Hall in the City of Fresno, by the following vote. - AYES: Alvarado, Dole, Mack, Pe chg Ifiti iams, Whitehurst NOES; Mone ABSENT M on e