1968/05/06 City Council Resolution (8)WJML:PDA:gmb 4/18/68 loc
RESOLUTION NO. 68- Ile
A RESOLUTION OF INTENTION TO ACQUIRE AND
CONSTRUCT IMPROVEMENTS
COPELAND CREEK IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
NO. 1968 -3
RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Rohnert Park,
California, that in its opinion the public interest and convenience
require and that it is the intention of said Council to order the
following acquisitions and improvements., to wit:
1. a) The acquisition of property necessary for
the extension and widening of Copeland Creek to a
uniform width of 100 feet, more or less, from Snyder
Lane at a point 1400 feet, more or less, northerly
of Southwest Boulevard, running thence westerly 4000
feet, more or less, to a point 200 feet, more or less,
westerly of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad right of
way and 1000 feet, more or less, northerly of Southwest
Boulevard and the improvement thereof by clearing,
grubbing, grading, excavation.and the construction
therein of reinforced concrete culverts, inlet drains,
riprap, landscaping and the installation of right
of way marker stakes, together with all appurtenances
to any of the above.
b) The acquisition of all lands and easements
and the performing of all work auxiliary to any of
the,above necessary to complete the same.
2. Whenever any public way is herein referred to as running
between two public ways, or from or to any public way, the inter-
sections of the public ways referred to are included to the extent
that work shall be shown on the plans to be done therein.
3. Said streets and highways are more particularly shown in
the records in the office of the County Recorder of Sonoma County,
California, and shall be shown upon the plans herein referred to
and to be filed with the City Clerk of said City.
4. All of said work and improvements are to be constructed
at the places and in the particular locations, of the forms, sizes,
dimensions and materials, and at the lines, grades and elevations
as shown and delineated upon the plans, profiles and specifications
to be made therefor, as hereinafter provided.
5. There is to be excepted from the work herein described
any of such work already done to line and grade and marked except-
ed or shown not to be done on said plans, profiles and specifica-
tions.
6. Notice is hereby given of the fact that in many cases
said work and improvements will bring the finished work to a grade
different from that formerly existing, and that to said extent
said grades are hereby changed and that said work will be done to
said changed grades.
7. Said Council does hereby adopt and establish as the
official grades for said work the grades and elevations to be
shown upon said plans, profiles and specifications. All such
grades and elevations are to be in feet and decimals thereof
with reference to the datum plane of the City of Rohnert Park.
8. The descriptions of the acquisitions and improvements
and the termini of the work contained in this Resolution are
general in nature. All items of work do not necessarily extend
for the full length of the description thereof. The plans and
profiles of the work, and maps and descriptions, as contained in
the Engineer's report, shall be controlling as to the correct
and detailed description thereof.
9. Said contemplated acquisitions and improvements, in the
opinion of said Council, are of more than local or ordinary public
benefit, and the costs and expenses thereof are made chargeable
upon an assessment district, the exterior boundaries of which
district are the composite and consolidated area as more parti-
cularly shown on a map thereof on file in the office of the City
Clerk, to which reference is hereby made for further particulars.
2.
Said map indicates by a boundary line the extent of the territory
included in the proposed district and shall govern for all details
as to the extent of the assessment district.
10. Said Council further declares that all public streets
and highways within said assessment district in use in the per-
formance of a public function as such shall be omitted from the
assessment hereafter to be made to cover the costs and expenses
of said acquisitions and improvements.
11. Notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent
unpaid assessments, and bear interest at the rate of not to exceed
six percent (6 %) per annum, will be issued hereunder in the manner
provided in the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, Division 10 of the
Streets and Highways Code, the last installment of which bonds
shall mature not to exceed fourteen (14) years from the second
day of July next succeeding ten (10) months from their date.
12. Except as herein otherwise provided for the issuance of
bonds, all of said improvements shall be done pursuant to the pro-
visions of the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913.
13. Reference is hereby made to proceedings had pursuant
to Division 4 of the Streets and Highways Code on file in the
office of the City Clerk.
14. Said proposed acquisitions and improvements are hereby
referred to the Engineer of Work, being a competent person employed
by said City for that purpose; and said Engineer is hereby direct-
ed to make and file with the City Clerk of said City a report in
writing, presenting the following:
(a) Maps and descriptions of the lands and
easements to be acquired;
(b) Plans and specifications of the proposed
improvements to be made pursuant to thjs Resolution
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of intention;
(c) Engineer's statement of the itemized and
total estimated costs and expenses of said acquisitions
and improvements and of the incidental expenses in
connection therewith;
(d) Diagram showing the assessment district
above referred to, and also the boundaries and dimen-
sions of the respective subdivisions of land within said
district as the same existed at the time of the passage
of this Resolution of Intention, each of which sub-
divisions shall be given a separate number upon said
diagram;
(e) A proposed assessment of the total amount
of the costs and expenses of the proposed acquisitions
and improvements upon the several subdivisions of land
in said district in proportion to the estimated benefits
to be received by such subdivisions, respectively, from
said acquisitions and improvements, and of the expenses
incidental thereto.
15. Notice is hereby given that, in the opinion of the
Council, the public interest will not be served by allowing the
property owners to take the contract for the construction of the
improvements and that, pursuant to Section 10502.4 of the Streets
and Highways Code, no notice of award of contract -shall be pub-
lished.
16o If any excess shall be realized from the assessment it
shall be used, in such amounts as the Council may determine, in
accordance with the provisions of law for one or more of the
following purposes:
(a) Transfer to the general fund of the City,
provided that the amount of any such transfers shall
not exceed the lesser of $1,000 or 5% of the total
amount expended from the improvement fund;
(b) As a credit upon the assessment and any
supplemental assessment; or
(c) For the maintenance of the improvements.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and
correct copy of a resolution duly passed and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Rohnert Park, Sonoma County,
California, at a meeting thereof held on the 6th day of
May , 1968, by the following vote of the members
thereof:
AYES, and in favor thereof, Councilmen: Buchanan, Hopkins, Rogers,
Smith and Mayor Roberts
NOES, Councilmen- none
ABSENT, Councilmen: none
APPROVED.
Mayor
Deputy City" Clerk
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