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4 <br /> <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993-2, Bonde Ranch Engineer’s Report, Fiscal Year 2025-26 <br />subsidized by the city. After the Engineer's Report is completed, the City Council may <br />preliminarily approve the Engineer's Report and proposed assessments and establish <br />the date for a public hearing on the continuation of the assessments. This Report was <br />prepared pursuant to the direction of the City Council. <br /> <br />This Engineer’s Report ("Report") was prepared to establish the budget for the <br />continued maintenance, improvements, and services (“Improvements”) that would be <br />funded by the proposed fiscal year 2025-26 assessments, determine the benefits <br />received by property from the Improvements, and the method of assessment <br />apportionment to lots and parcels within the Maintenance District. This Report and the <br />proposed assessments have been made pursuant to the Landsca ping and Lighting Act <br />of 1972, Part 2 of Division 15 of the California Streets and Highways Code ("Act") and <br />Article XIIID of the California Constitution (“Article”). <br /> <br />If the City Council approves this Engineer's Report and the assessments by resolution, <br />a notice of public hearing must be published in a local paper at least 10 days prior to the <br />date of the public hearing. The resolution preliminarily approving the Engineer's Report <br />and establishing the date for a public hearing is used for this notice. <br /> <br />Following the minimum 10-day period after publishing the notice, a public hearing is <br />held for the purpose of allowing public testimony about the proposed assessments. This <br />hearing is currently scheduled for July 15, 2025. At this hearing, the City Council would <br />consider approval of a resolution confirming the assessments for fiscal year 2025-26. If <br />so confirmed and approved, the assessments would be submitted to the County <br />Auditor/Controller for inclusion on the property tax rolls for Fiscal Year 2025-26. <br /> <br />Legal Requirements <br />Proposition 218 <br />The City of Pleasanton’s five Landscape and Lighting Maintenance Districts were <br />formed prior to the passage of Proposition 218, “The Right to Vote on Taxes Act,” which <br />was approved by the voters of California on November 6, 1996, and is now Article XIIIC <br />and XIIID of the California Constitution (Proposition 218 provides for benefit <br />assessments to be levied to fund the cost of providing services, improvements, as well <br />as maintenance and operation expenses to a public improvement that specially benefits <br />the assessed property). Although these assessments are consistent with Proposition <br />218, the California judiciary has generally referred to pre-Proposition 218 assessments <br />as “grandfathered assessments” and held them to a lower standard than post - <br />Proposition 218 assessments. <br /> <br />The existing Assessment Districts will be re-assessed consistent with the procedures <br />and requirements imposed by Proposition 218, which provide several important <br />requirements, including property-owner balloting and approval for the imposition of new <br />or increased assessments if greater than the formation level assessments. No vote is <br />required this year because the proposed increase to the assessments is less than the <br />maximum assessment amounts approved at formation of the LMD and no change to the <br />assessment calculation is proposed.