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Estates assessment ($784 annually) due to the City's ownership of parcels of land within each of these Districts upon which public facilities (such as water tanks and pump stations) are located. Staffs cost to administer these Districts will continue to be funded by the assessments. BACKGROUND GHAD - Purposes and Description Geologic Hazard Abatement Districts (GHADs) are State-authorized districts which can be formed for the purpose of prevention, mitigation, abatement or control of a geologic hazard. A "geologic hazard"1 is an actual or threatened landslide, land subsidence, soil erosion, or other natural or unnatural movement of land. The CHAD assesses landowners for operation and maintenance of improvements covered under the GHAD. These assessments are collected at the same time and in the same manner as property taxes. The annual assessments can be adjusted each year by an index2 to compensate for inflation. The current index allows for an increase of two percent. The annual assessments were last adjusted for inflation in fiscal year 2014-15. 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 CHAD 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 PROPOSED 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 CHAD: cleaning of retention basins, site inspections, erosion stabilization, preparation of the Engineer's Report, and City administrative costs. This year, staff is recommending that the parcel assessment be increased by 2.0% (as per the ENR index) to $298. With 42 properties within the CHAD, including the City-owned sanitary sewer pump station, this year's budget will be $13,016. Currently, the Oak Tree Farm CHAD has a fund reserve of $73,058 as of May 8, 2015; 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 replenished because 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. ' Damage resulting from an earthquake is specifically exempted from coverage by the GHAD. z The index is the Engineer News Record(ENR) Construction Code Index for the San Francisco Bay Area. Page 2 of 5