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HomeMy WebLinkAbout14 - Underground AD Nos. 114 and 114b (Areas described within Newport Heights) and Approval of PSA - MemoMEMORANDUM Date: May 24, 2016 Wpo. To: Honorable Mayor & Members of City Council From: David A. Webb, Public Works Director �GIF'pFR�A 1, Subject: Regular Meeting May 24, 2016, Agenda Item 14 — Public Works Petition Certification for Proposed Assessment District Department No. 114 and 114b (continued from May 10, 2016). Since the continuance of this agenda item from May 10, 2016, the Public Works Department and City Clerk has received correspondences from the public regarding the certification of the petition. Specifically, a few more property owners in Assessment District 114 have changed their position regarding the petition to request undergrounding. In addition, the Proponents have submitted additional signatures in support of the Petition as well as providing further documentation to verify several previous submitted signatures. The contract Assessment Engineer (Harris and Associates) has reviewed all requests as of 3:00 p.m. today and has prepared a new updated Certification of Petition Sufficiency for Assessment District 114 based on their review of all correspondence (Attachment to the Resolution). Said petition now represents 50.85% of the assessable area of property within the proposed 114 boundary. There are still no changes to Assessment Area 114b, which still stands at 59.71%. If the boundaries of AD 114 and AD 114b were combined, the petition percentage would now be 52.37% Submitted b'y: David A. Webb Public Works Director Attachment: Revised Certification of Petition Sufficiency dated May 24, 2016 CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY OF PETITION STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH The undersigned hereby CERTIFIES as follows: That I am the duly appointed ASSESSMENT ENGINEER of the CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA. That on the 24th day of May, 2016, I reviewed a Petition for the formation of an Assessment District for certain public works of improvement, together with appurtenances, appurtenant work and acquisition, where necessary, in a special assessment district known and designated as ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 114 (hereinafter referred to as the '`Assessment District"), a copy of which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk. The undersigned hereby further specifically certifies as follows: That I caused said Petition to be examined and my examination revealed that said Petition was signed by not less than five (5) owners of assessable land in the proposed Assessment District as shown by the last equalized assessment roll used by the City, owning lands constituting more than fifty percent (50%) of the area of all assessable lands within the proposed Assessment District, all as prescribed by Section 5896.6 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State --of California. 2. Said Petition did represent fifty and eighty-five hundredths of a percent (50.85%) of the assessable area of property within the proposed boundaries of the Assessment District. Executed this 24th day of May, 2016 at Irvine, California. . cx_/� �_ , , , 9— (-,'e' , �, I _. — ALISON BOULEY, P.E. HARRIS & ASSOCIATES ASSESSMENT ENGINEER CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH STATE OF CALIFORNIA