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GHAD Annual Procedures After the GHAD is formed, the Council /Board must take a number of steps before it becomes operational, including passing a budget and levying an assessment. Each year, before levying the annual assessment, the Board must adopt a resolution declaring its intention to order that the cost and expenses of maintaining and operating the district shall be assessed against the properties benefiting thereby. The resolution is to contain a report setting forth the yearly estimated budget, the proposed assessments to be levied, and a description of the method used in formulating the assessments. After the resolution is adopted, a notice is mailed to all property owners advising them of the contents of the resolution and advising them of the time, dates and place of the public hearing when their protests can be heard. At the public hearing, the Board considers any protests and makes any revisions to the proposed assessments. The Board may then confirm the assessments and order the levy and collection of the assessments. Proposition 218, enacted in the November 1996 general election, complicated the process for levying the assessments. However, because of the way these four GHADs were formed, and because the proposed annual assessments are not higher than the previous year's assessment, other than increases due to an inflation factor (such as a construction cost index), this year's assessments are in conformance with Proposition 218. THIS YEAR'S ASSESSMENTS Oak Tree Farm An Engineer's Report for the Oak Tree Farm GHAD has been prepared. It provides that funding is needed for the following: cleaning of retention basins, site inspection, erosion stabilization, preparation of the Engineer's Report, and City administrative costs. This year, the parcel assessment has been increased 6.6 percent for inflation (based on the April 2009 Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index for the San Francisco Bay Area), from $258 to $275, including the City -owned sanitary sewer pump station within the District. (Under Proposition 218, publicly owned property that benefits from the program is required to pay its fair share.) With 42 properties within the District, including the City -owned sanitary sewer pump station, this year's budget will be $11,550. Currently, the Oak Tree Farm GHAD has a fund balance of $40,434. This reserve is slowly being replenished, as over the last several years the majority of the reserve funds were used to complete erosion repairs along the fire trail within the covered area. Moller Ranch The Engineer's Report for the Moller Ranch GHAD provides that funding is needed for the following: excavation and re- compaction of shallow slope failures, installation of additional subdrain systems, repair of surface drainage improvements, construction of additional surface drainage improvements, restoration of eroded areas and /or removal of siltation deposits, site inspection, preparation of the Engineer's Report and City Page 3 of 5