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Staff met with the Moller Ranch Homeowners Association to discuss increased assessments to meet their repair/replacement capital improvement requirements. While there is not overwhelming support for an increase in the assessment amount, the HOA is interested in exploring the cost and benefit aspects of an increase. With the assessment of two city-owned parcels, the City will pay $1 ,121 .06 ($560.53 each). Increases to Assessments Assessments in each of the districts will remain unchanged this fiscal year. As stated in this report and in previous reports, assessments have not been increased in the LMDs since they were created. The current assessments are based upon operation and maintenance costs, and capital replacement costs, that existed at the time the LMDs were created. The districts have operated year-to-year through a combination of reducing maintenance and depleting capital replacement reserves. This is due in large part to the complicated process required to increase assessments created by the passage of Proposition 218 in 1996. Annual costs have continued to increase, and capital reserves have been depleted to the point now that this operational strategy is no longer sustainable. The revenue in some districts, as detailed above, is no longer enough to cover the operational costs. This strategy also resulted in depleting the reserves needed for eventual capital replacement. City Staff, in consultation with SCI Consulting Group, a consultant that specializes in the formation of LMDs, began the analysis and Proposition 218 compliant voting procedure to increase assessments for the two most underfunded LMDs, Windsor and Bonde Ranch, but the voting process was put on hold due to the County's shelter-in-place order associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. In the coming year, the City will be working to determine maintenance expectations and appropriate maintenance standards for each district. The appropriate reserve amount to cover eventual capital replacements will also be determined. When the review is complete, the required assessment increases will be calculated. The goal for this effort is to fully understand the funding required to implement a sustainable landscape maintenance program in each LMD, in accordance with PUD requirements and the expectations of those residents living in the affected special assessment district, as well as to grow the capital reserve with an annual contribution to fund eventual replacement based upon an anticipated replacement cycle for each LMD. The assessments will not be increased for this coming year's maintenance. The information contained within this report regarding the need to increase assessments, and the plan to have the residents in each special district consider and vote on an assessment increase, is informational only with respect to the proposed public hearing and action before City Council on June 16, 2020. Page 5 of 6