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stations) are located. Staffs cost to administer these Districts will continue to be funded by the assessments. BACKGROUND At the meeting of May 18, 2010, the GHAD Board of Directors approved the Engineer's Report relating to each respective assessment district and scheduled a public hearing per the requirements of the Geologic Hazard Abatement District. The public notices were not sent to the property owners within the GHAD, therefore on June 15, 2010, the GHAD Board of Directors postponed the hearing of any protests of the proposed assessments to July 20, 2010. GHAD Purposes and Description Geologic Hazard Abatement Districts are districts which can be formed for the purpose of prevention, mitigation, abatement or control of a geologic hazard. A "geologic hazard is an actual or threatened landslide, land subsidence, soil erosion, or other natural or unnatural movement of land. The GHADs assess landowners for operation and maintenance of improvements covered under the GHADs. These assessments are collected at the same time and in the same manner as property taxes. Existing GHADs within the City of Pleasanton At the request of residential property developers, the City formed four GHADs: Oak Tree Farm, Moller Ranch, Laurel Creek Estates (The Preserve, Oak Hill Estates and Kolb Ranch Estates) and Lemoine Ranch Estates. The Oak Hill Estates subdivision and the Kolb Ranch Estates subdivision were both annexed into the Laurel Creek GHAD after the formation of the original district; those annexations occurred on August 1, 2000, and July 20, 2004, respectively. All of the four existing GHADs are located on the west side of Foothill Road and in areas where potential geologic hazards exist. THIS YEAR'S ASSESSMENTS Oak Tree Farm An Engineer's Report for the Oak Tree Farm GHAD has been prepared. It concludes that funding is needed for the following on -going special services for properties within this GHAD: cleaning of retention basins, site inspections, erosion stabilization, preparation of the Engineer's Report, and City administrative costs. This year, the parcel assessment is proposed to remain the same as last year, $275. There is no adjustment for inflation this year because the index used for adjustments has no reported change. With 42 properties within the GHAD, including the City -owned sanitary sewer pump station, this year's total assessment will remain at $11,550. Currently, the Oak Tree Farm GHAD has a fund reserve of $46,034; this reserve is to be used to pay for landslide repair work, which the original Plan of Control estimated would be needed approximately every ten years. This reserve is slowly being Damage resulting from an earthquake is specifically exempted from coverage by the GHAD. 2 The index is the Engineer News Record Construction Code Index for the San Francisco Bay Area. Page 2 of 5