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M Engineer's Report and Proposed Assessments Each year for which the assessments will be approved, the City Council must direct the preparation of an Engineer's Report, budgets, and proposed assessments for the upcoming fiscal year. After the Engineer's Report is completed, the City Council may preliminarily approve the Engineer's Report and proposed assessments and establish the date for a public hearing on the continuation of the assessments. This Report was prepared pursuant to the direction of the City Council. This Engineer's Report ("Report") was prepared to establish the budget for the maintenance, improvements, and services ("Improvements") that would be funded by the proposed fiscal year 2025-26 assessments, determine the benefits received by property from the Improvements, and the method of assessment apportionment to lots and parcels within the Maintenance District. This Report and the proposed assessments have been made pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, Part 2 of Division 15 of the California Streets and Highways Code ("Act") and Article XIIID of the California Constitution ("Article"). If the City Council approves this Engineer's Report and the assessments by resolution, a notice of public hearing must be published in a local paper at least 10 days prior to the date of the public hearing. The resolution preliminarily approving the Engineer's Report and establishing the date for a public hearing is used for this notice. Following the minimum 10 -day period after publishing the notice, a public hearing is held for the purpose of allowing public testimony about the proposed assessments. This hearing is currently scheduled for July 15, 2025. At this hearing, the City Council would consider approval of a resolution confirming the assessments for fiscal year 2025-26. If so confirmed and approved, the assessments would be submitted to the County Auditor/Controller for inclusion on the property tax rolls for Fiscal Year 2025-26. Legal Requirements Proposition 218 The City of Pleasanton's five Landscape Maintenance Districts were formed prior to the passage of Proposition 218, "The Right to Vote on Taxes Act," which was approved by the voters of California on November 6, 1996, and is now Article XIIIC and XIIID of the California Constitution. (Proposition 218 provides for benefit assessments to be levied to fund the cost of providing services, improvements, as well as maintenance and operation expenses to a public improvement which specially benefits the assessed property). Although these assessments are consistent with Proposition 218, the California judiciary has generally referred to pre -Proposition 218 assessments as "grandfathered assessments" and held them to a lower standard than post Proposition 218 assessments. The existing Assessment Districts will be re -assessed consistent with the procedures and requirements imposed by Proposition 218, which provide several important requirements, including property -owner balloting and approval for the imposition of new or increased assessments if greater than the formation level assessments. No vote is City of Pleasanton Landscape Maintenance District No. 1994-1, Oak Tree Farm Engineer's Report, Fiscal Year 2025-26