HomeMy WebLinkAbout98-050 CC ResolutionRESOLUTION NO. 98-50
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TEMECULA ESTABLISHING THE AMOUNT OF THE
SPECIAL TAX LEVY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998-99 TO
PROVIDE FOR RECREATION AND COMMUNITY
SERVICES PROGRAMS AND THE OPERATION,
MAINTENANCE AND SERVICING OF PUBLIC PARKS AND
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, MEDIAN LANDSCAPING,
AND ARTERIAL STREET LIGHTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMECULA HEREBY FINDS,
RESOLVES, DECLARES, DETERMINES AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Pursuant to the authority of Article XI, Section 7 of the California
Constitution, Government Code Section 37100.5, and other applicable law, the City Council
adopted, and the voters of the City of Temecula approved, Ordinance No. 96-21, levying and
assessing a special tax on each parcel of property in the City of Temecula for each fiscal year,
commencing with fiscal year 1998-99.
Section 2. The maximum amount of said special tax for each fiscal year as
established by Ordinance No. 96-21 is $74.44 per single-family residential dwelling unit, $55.83
per multi-family residential dwelling unit, $148.88 per acre of vacant property in a residential
zone, $297.76 per acre of vacant property in a non-residential zone, $446.64 per acre of non-
residential improved property, $148.88 per acre of golf course property, and $37.22 per acre for
agricultural uses.
Section 3. Pursuant to Ordinance No. 96-21 the City Council is empowered to
establish the amounts of the special tax levy annually each fiscal year, in amounts not to exceed
the maximum amounts specified in Section 2 of this Resolution, as is required to provide an
adequate level of service in accordance with the purposes set forth in the Ordinance.
Section 4. The City Council hereby determines that the following amounts are
required to provide an adequate level of service in accordance with the purposes set forth in
Ordinance No. 96-21, and hereby establishes the following amounts to be levied as a special tax
for fiscal year 1998-99, which amounts are less than the maximum amounts established by
Ordinance No. 96-21, as follows:
$ 68.44 per single-family residential dwelling unit
$ 51.34 per multi-family residential dwelling unit
$136.88 per acre of vacant property in a residential zone
$273.76 per acre of vacant property in a non-residential zone
$410.64 per acre of non-residential improved property
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$136.88 per acre of golf course property
$ 34.22 per acre of agricultural property
Section 5. The special tax shall be collected in the same manner, on the same
dates, and shall be subject to the same penalties and interest as other charges and taxes fixed and
collected by the County of Riverside on behalf of the City of Temecula. Said special tax, together
with all penalties and interest thereon, shall constitute a lien upon the parcel upon which it is
levied until it has been paid, and said special tax, together with al 1 penalties and interest thereon,
shall, until paid, constitute a personal obligation to the City of Temecula by the persons who own
the parcel on the date the tax is due.
All laws applicable to the levy, collection, and enforcement of property taxes, including, but not
limited to, those pertaining to the matters of delinquency, correction, cancellation, refund and
redemption, are applicabe to the special tax, except for California Revenue and Taxation Code
Section 4831.
Section 6. The revenue raised by the special tax shall be placed in a special fund
to be used only for the purposes of financing recreational and community ser vices programs, and
the operation, maintenance, and servicing of public parks and recreational facilities, median
landscaping, arterial street lights and traffic signals throughout the City of Temecula and
administrative expenses incurred by the City in connection therewith.
Section 7. The special tax shall not be imposed upon a federal or state
governmental agency or another local governmental agency or upon any parcel of property that
is exempt from the special tax imposed by this ordinance pursuant to any provision of the
Constitution or any paramount law.
Section 8. The City Clerk is hereby ordered to transmit or cause to be transmitted
to the County Auditor of the County of Riverside, California before August 10, 1998, the
property tax roll with the special tax enumerated for each parcel not exempt therefrom; and the
County Auditor is hereby designated, required, empowered, authorized, instructed, directed and
ordered to make collection of such special tax as shown on that roll and to perform any and all
duties necessary therefor.
Section 9. If a property owner subject to the special tax challenges or questions
the levy of the special tax against such property owner's property, such property owner must
appeal the levy by filing an appeal with the City Clerk before 5:00 p.m. on December 1, 1998,
pursuant to procedures established by the City.
Section 10. If a property owner subject to the special tax believes that payment
of the special tax for fiscal year 1998~99 would create a hardship for that property owner during
that fiscal year, such property owner must appeal the levy by filing a hardship appeal with the
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City Clerk before 5:00 p.m. on December 1, 1998, pursuant to procedures established by the
City, in order to be considered under the hardship appeal program.
Section 11. If any provision of this Resolution or the application thereof to any
person or circumstances is held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction,
such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any other provision or applications, and to
this end the provisions of this Resolution are declared to be severable. The City Council does
hereby declare that it would have adopted this Resolution and each section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase, part or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, clauses, phrases, parts or portions thereof, be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 12. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution.
ATTEST:
Jones, CI~IC
Act~'l~City Clerk x,.._.,j
[SEAL]
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED, by the City Council of the City of Temecula
this 16th day of June, 1998.
Ron Roberts, Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss
CITY OF TEMECULA )
I, Susan W. Jones, Acting City Clerk of the City of Temecula, California, do hereby certify that
Resolution No. 98-50 was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of the City of Temecula
at a regular meeting thereof held on the 16th day of June, 1998, by the following vote:
AYES: 5
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Comerchero, Ford, Lindemans, Stone, Roberts
NOES:
0 COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: 0
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
Susan{W.~.. Jo~.s, CMC
ct~ity Clerk
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