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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND The Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972 ("the Act") authorizes local agencies to impose an annual assessment on real property benefiting from improvements in order to pay for constructing and maintaining lighting and landscaping improvements. The assessments are collected by Alameda County as part of the annual tax bill. At the meeting of Mayl7, 2005, the City Council approved the Engineer's Report relating to each respective assessment district and scheduled a public hearing in conformance with the requirements of the State of California Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972. A copy of this report is attached for reference. DISCUSSION As required by the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, the City must levy an annual assessment to all parcels benefited by their Landscape District. The resolutions adopted at the meeting of May 17, 2005, authorized the City Clerk to give the required notice of public hearing regarding the levy of proposed annual assessments for the respective districts. At the meeting of June 21, 2005, the City Council will open the hearing to receive public comments, close the hearing, and adopt a resolution confLrming the Engineer's Report and levying assessments for each of the Districts. Landscape Maintenance District 1984-1, Ponderosa Maintenance in this District includes masonry walls, trees, shrubbery, groundcover and irrigation systems along Paseo Santa Cruz between Corte Pacifica and Paseo Catalina. The assessment for the coming year for District 1984-1 (Ponderosa) will be the same as last year, $16.90 per parcel per year. With a total of 344 parcels in the district (one of these a City- owned parcel, Del Prado Park), this year's total assessment will be $5,813. This amount will be sufficient to fund the maintenance of all common areas along Paseo Santa Cruz including water and electrical costs, County administration fees, City administration fees, and sets aside in a replacement fund sufficient reserves for the long-term replacement of plantings, irrigation systems, masonry walls, and other District improvements. The City bid the District Maintenance project in April 2001, and received three (3) bids. The low responsive bidder was Sycamore Landscaping Corporation of Walnut Creek with a bid of $7,200 for the annual maintenance. This included the cost of maintenance for the "general benefit" area along the arroyo from Corto de Flores to Corte Monterey ($4,974) that will be SR:05:156 Page 2 of 5