Salinas Municipal Code Art. II Maintenance Assessments

Whenever the city council determines that the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating any or all public improvements of a local nature have not been adequately financed and provided for, proceeding therefor may be undertaken pursuant to this article.

(Ord. No. 2045 (NCS), § 1.)

The city council may, in its resolution declaring its intention to order work done or improvements made or by separate resolution, declare its intention to order that the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating any or all public improvements of a local nature, including the costs of necessary repairs, replacements, fuel, power, electrical current, care supervision, and any and all other items necessary for the proper maintenance and operation thereof, shall be assessed, either partly or wholly, upon such district as the city council shall determine will be benefitted by the maintenance and operation of the public improvements proposed to be maintained; the amounts so assessed to be collected in the same manner and by the same officers as taxes for city purposes are collected.

(Ord. No. 2045 (NCS), § 1.)

When the city council has declared its intention pursuant to Section 21C-11, the applicable provisions of Part 2 of Division 15 (Section 22500 et seq.) of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California shall apply, excepting as modified by the following:

(a) "Improvement" shall be deemed to additionally include sanitary sewer system facilities, storm drainage facilities and any other works, utility or appliances necessary or convenient for providing any other public service.

(b) "Maintain" or "maintenance" shall be deemed to additionally include the maintenance of all sanitary sewer system facilities and storm drainage facilities of the city including, but not limited to, all sanitary sewer mains, laterals, manholes, pump stations and appurtenances of the city to convey, treat, and dispose of all sewage; all storm drainage lines, mains, inlets, channels, and all appurtenances of the system of the city designed to convey storm waters by cleaning, repairing, and removal of debris, rubbish, and other solid wastes; and any other works, utility or appliances necessary or convenient for providing any other public service.

(c) Except for the creation of new maintenance districts or annexations to existing maintenance districts, no separate diagram shall be required in each year and it shall be sufficient to refer to the existing diagram on file with the city clerk with suitable changes upon the record, annually, to update such diagram.

(d) "Annexation" shall be deemed to include annexation of any maintenance districts existing as of the effective date of the ordinance creating this Code.

(e) For purposes of the collection of assessments or any portion thereof upon the general tax roll, it shall be sufficient for the city clerk to provide to the editor a certified copy of the assessment roll without supplying a copy of the assessment diagram.

(f) In the event bonds are issued pursuant to the Improvement Bond Act of 1915, the city council may determine the date or dates upon which such bonds shall mature, the amounts of principal maturing in each year, the date or dates upon which interest on such bonds shall be paid, and may provide for capitalized interest on such bonds for a period of not to exceed two years from the date of such bonds.

(g) In the event the resolution of intention specifically provides for the assessment of public property owned by any public agency and in use in the performance of a public function, the city council may establish a special revolving fund or funds, designated by the name or names of the maintenance district or districts and may at any time transfer to such revolving funds, such sums as the city council deems necessary to expedite the conduct of the assessment proceedings. Such sums shall be obtained from funds available to the city and shall constitute loans to such revolving funds, to be repaid from collections undertaken by agreement between the city and the public agency owning such property used in the performance of a public function.

(Ord. No. 2045 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2120 (NCS), § 1.)