Reso 1994-542RESOLUTION NO. 4- SwL
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COSTA MESA SANI-
TARY DISTRICT ADOPTING A LANG- STANDING POLICY OF ESTABLISHING
PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING SEWER ASSESSMENT RATES AND ESTAB-
LISHING PROPERTY CATEGORIES FOR ASSESSMENTS AUTHORIZED, BY
ORDINANCES 17 and 18 AND STATING REASONS THEREFOR.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COSTA MESA SANITARY DISTRICT DOES HEREBY
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
THAT, WHEREAS, Ordinances 17 and 18 adopted May 12th and June 9th, 1983
created the District's sewer assessment district; and
WHEREAS, a method must be established to calculate the rate necessary for
the annual assessment and the procedure to be followed in obtaining Board approval
of the rate to be subject to public hearing and adoption for the next fiscal year;
and
WHEREAS, due to different sewer disposal needs of different land uses, it is
necessary to establish land use categories for application of assessment;
NOW, THERFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
THAT sewer service assessment rates shall be established as follows:
Utilizing the initial Manager /Engineer's Report, he and the Finance
Director shall each year perform the following:
a. Determine the funds to be collected for the maintenance and opera-
tion of the District's existing sewer system.
b. Using sewer flow curves, measured sewer flows, estimated sewer
flows and the flow rates for each property category, establish the
amount of funds to be collected from each property category.
c. Submit by resolution for Board adoption the sewer assessment rate
for each property category.
d. Upon adoption of the rates by the Board, prepare or cause to be
prepared the assessment role for submittal to the Orange County
Assessor's office; and
THAT all properties within the jurisdictional boundaries of the District
will be assessed for sewer service. The property categories include, but are not
limited to, single and multiple residential, mobile hone parks, commercial, indus-
trial and institutional, "Institutional" includes, but is not limited to, hospi-
tals, schools, colleges, governmental buildings, churches, fairgrounds, military
installations and any other uses not herein described. Residential units shall be
charged a flat rate, one rate for parcels zoned and developed as single - family
detached residential and one rate for parcels zoned and developed as multiple -
family residential. Commercial, industrial and institutional parcels shall be
charged for 1,000 square feet of developed area (structures); and
THAT when any exempt parcel or parcels which have had the floor area reduced
or experienced a change in use, such as vacant to developed, redevelopment or
increased use of floor area, or development requiring connection to District faci-
lities, during any taxable year, the assessment provided for herein shall be due
for the period of time in which sewer services were provided to the newly created
uses during the time said parcels or floor area were not on the tax roll.
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ATTEST:
PASSED AND ADOPTED this N -a day of d4�,� _, 1994.
Secretary
4esi t e nd of Directors ta Mesa Sanitaistrict
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY- OF ORANGE )SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, Florine T. Reichle, Assistant Manager /Clerk of the Costa
Mesa Sanitary District, hereby certify that the above and foregoing
Resolution No. ,S-y2,, was duly and regularly passed and adopted
by said Board of Directors at a regular meeting thereof held on the
day of GL-L 19.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the Costa Mesa Sanitary District, this /d�"Z;C' day of
1994.
Assistan Manager /Clerk
Costa Mesa Sanitary District
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