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Honorable Mayor and Membem of the City Council: BACKGROUND GHADS - Purposes and Description GHADs are districts formed specifically to address geologic concerns. A GHAD may be formed for the purpose of prevention, mitigation, abatement or control of a geologic haTnrd; also for mitigation or abatement of s~ructural hazards that are partly or wholly caused by geologic h~7~rds. A "geologic hazard" is broadly defined as an actual or threatened landslide, land subsidence, soil erosion, earthquake, fault movement or any other natural or I~nn:~tural movement of land or earth. A GHAD is a political subdivision of the State and is not an agency or insmunentality of a local agency. A GHAD may acquire, construct, operate, manage or maintain improvements on public or private lands, and may exercise the power of eminent domain. A GHAD may include lands in more ~h~n one local agency (city or county) and the lands may be publicly or privately owned. The lands comprising the GHAD need not be contiguous so long as all are specially benefitted by the proposed construction to be undertaken by the GHAD. Land may be annexed to an existin~ GHAD. A GHAD is authorized to finance improvements through the Improvement Act of 1911, the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915. A GHAD may also accept financial or other assistance from any public or private source, and may borrow fimds from a local agency, and the state and federal governments. A GHAD may assess landowners for operation and maintenance of improvements acquired or constructed under the GHAD law. These assessments, which attach as liens on property, may be collected at the same time and in the same manner as general taxes on real property. SR:04:136 Page 2