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2 City of Pleasanton Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993-1, Windsor Engineer’s Report, Fiscal Year 2025-26 • 1994-1 Oak Tree Farm – 42 parcels • 1995-1 Moller Ranch – 101 parcels The five District’s benefit assessments were established prior to the approval of Proposition 218 in 1996. The purpose of these Districts is to provide funding for the installation, maintenance and servicing of local landscaping and lighting improvements (“Improvements”) within each District’s service area. Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993-1, Windsor Assessment Background The Windsor Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993-1 (“District 1993-1” or “Maintenance District”) was formed in 1993 as a Condition of Approval for the Windsor development, to fund certain landscape improvements within the Windsor subdivision. The Maintenance District has a total of 90 single-family residential parcels. The Windsor Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993 -1 purpose is to fund the maintenance and repair of designated landscaped areas and open space areas, entry features, masonry soundwalls, common area drainage ditches, irrigation systems, trees and plantings in designated landscaped areas, furnishing of water and power for irrigation systems, and streetlights. District 1993-1 is funded by the benefit assessment approved in 1993 (“Assessment”), and it does not receive any direct revenues from property taxes or any other funding sources. The fiscal year 2025-26 assessments for District 1993-1 will remain at the same assessment rate of $265.11 per parcel per year. With a total of 90 parcels in the Maintenance District, fiscal year 2025-26 total assessment will be $24,265.80. Over the years, operational costs and utility costs have increased, however the assessment revenues have remained the same. The fiscal year 2025-26 total assessment revenue will not be sufficient to fund the maintenance of all landscaped areas, including water costs, county assessment fees, city administration fees, replacement of plantings, irrigation systems, and other district improvements. The equivalent of $265.11 in today’s dollars, based on the Consumer Price Index for California, is $538.00. The Engineer’s Report projects a shortage that will require the City to reduce landscape maintenance and water use so that maintenance costs remain below assessments. City staff began the process of potentially increasing the assessments for the Windsor Landscape Maintenance District in 2022 through a Proposition 218 compliant voting procedure. However, the property owners that attended the neighborhood outreach meeting on February 2, 2022, voiced their desire that the City undertake more significant outreach to discuss increasing the assessment prior to taking the decision to vote. Staff set up a meeting with the Windsor neighborhood again on October 18, 2022, to discuss the assessments. A notification was sent via mail to all property owners and the HOA manager notified the residents of the meeting via email. About ten residents attended the meeting to discuss the need for and process for a vote to increase the