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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 04 -060 RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT THE COSTS FOR WEED ABATEMENT, INCLUDING ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, ARE A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT AND LIEN IMPOSED ON THE PROPERTIES REQUIRING ABATEMENT AND APPROVING THE COST ACCOUNTING REPORT FOR THE 2004 WEED ABATEMENT PROGRAM WHEREAS, the weed abatement program of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department is administered pursuant to Government Code sections 39560-39588; and WHEREAS, at its meeting of March 16, 2004, the City of Pleasanton City Council adopted Resolution No. 04-010, which declared as a public nuisance all weeds, rubbish or refuse upon or in front of certain described properties within the City of Pleasanton as more particularly set forth in Exhibit "A", attached thereto; and WHEREAS, on April 20, 2004, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 04-014, which ordered the abatement of weeds on the parcels identified in Resolution No. 04-010 and declared that the weed abatement costs, including a 100% mark up charge for administrative costs, are the responsibility of the property owner; and WHEREAS, those properties that were not voluntarily abated by the property owners were abated by a contractor for the City of Pleasanton; and WHEREAS, an itemized report, attached hereto as Exhibit A, showing the cost of weed abatement for each parcel was presented to the City Council at a public hearing on August 3, 2004; and WHEREAS, at the City Council meeting on August 3, 2004, no objections to the cost accounting report were made and the City approved the cost accounting report for the abatement program; and WHEREAS, section 39577 of the California Government Code provides that the abatement costs, including the administrative costs for enforcement, are recoverable and constitute a special assessment against the parcels the weeds on which were abated; and