TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Libby Bretthauer, Finance Director
Julie Bondarchuk, Financial Controller
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of a Resolution Approving the Assessment Engineer's Report for the Annual Levy of Street Lighting Assessments for Fiscal Year 2026-2027 and a Resolution Declaring the City Council's Intention to Provide for the Annual Levy and Collection of Assessments, and Setting the Public Hearing to Consider the Assessments for June 16, 2026 (Budgeted) (Finance Director Bretthauer).
A) ADOPT RESOLUTION NOS. 26-0039 AND 26-0040
B) SET PUBLIC HEARING DATE FOR JUNE 16, 2026
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 26-0039 approving the Assessment Engineer's report for the annual levy of Street Lighting Assessments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026-2027.
If Resolution No. 26-0039 is adopted, then staff recommends the City Council adopt Resolution No. 26-0040:
1) Declaring the City Council's intention to provide for the annual levy and collection of assessments for the Street Lighting and Landscaping Fund, and
2) Setting the public hearing to consider assessments for June 16, 2026.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The assessment rates remain unchanged from FY 2024-2025. The Assessment Engineer's Report includes calculated assessments totaling $377,026 for FY 2026-2027. The FY 2026-2027 Budget, scheduled for adoption at the June 2, 2026, City Council meeting, will include the updated Engineer's Report estimates.
Assessments have been fixed since 1996 with most single-family residences paying $17.03 per year. Costs, however, have continued to rise (notably electricity, gas, and capital improvements) and therefore exceed the revenue generated by the assessments. As a result, the General Fund has subsidized the Street Lighting and Landscape Fund since 2007, resulting in a total of nearly $3.9 mill...
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