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THE CITY OF 8 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT pLEASANTON. December 17, 2019 Fire TITLE: ADOPT A RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT THE COSTS FOR WEED ABATEMENT, INCLUDING ABATEMENT, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, AND LEGAL FEES AND COSTS, ARE A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT AND LIEN IMPOSED ON PROPERTY OFF FONDRY COURT NEAR FOOTHILL ROAD, ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NUMBER 946-4585-026-00 SUMMARY The City Council declared that the weeds on properties throughout Pleasanton, including Assessor's Parcel Number (APN) 946-4585-026-00, located off Fondry Court near Foothill Road, were a fire hazard and ordered their abatement. Because the property owner failed to abate the weeds on APN 946-4585-026-00, and the parcel was partially surrounded by fences, the City sought, and was granted, a court order to enter the property and have the weeds removed. A city contractor abated the weeds on the parcel. The City sent the property owner an invoice but the owner did not pay. The attached resolution declares that the City's costs to abate weeds are a special assessment and lien imposed on the property. The unpaid amount will be an assessment collected on the property owner's tax bill. RECOMMENDATION Adopt the attached resolution overruling protests (if any), approving the Cost Accounting Report for the 2019 Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department (LPFD) Weed Abatement Program, and declaring that the abatement costs, including the contractor's costs, administrative costs, and legal fees and costs, are a special assessment and lien imposed on the property requiring abatement. FINANCIAL STATEMENT The weed abatement costs, administrative costs equal to 100% of the contractor's costs to abate the nuisance, and legal fees and costs are fully recoverable and become a special assessment on the property owner's tax bill. All costs involved with the Weed Abatement Program are budgeted under Account #122-181-3378.