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City of Pleasanton <br />Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993-1, Windsor <br />Engineer’s Report <br /> <br />Page 8 <br /> <br />The Windsor Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993-1 purpose is to fund the <br />maintenance and repair of designated landscaped areas and open space areas, <br />entry features, masonry soundwalls, common area drainage ditches, irrigaƟon <br />systems, trees and planƟngs in designated landscaped areas, furnishing of water <br />and power for irrigaƟon systems, and streetlights. <br />District 1993-1 is funded by the benefit assessment approved in 1993 <br />(“Assessment”), and it does not receive any direct revenues from property taxes <br />or any other funding sources. The fiscal year 2026-27 assessments for District <br />1993-1 will remain at the same assessment rate of $265.11 per parcel per year. <br />With a total of 90 parcels in the Maintenance District, fiscal year 2026-27 total <br />assessment will be $24,265.80. <br />Over the years, operaƟonal costs and uƟlity costs have increased, however the <br />assessment revenues have remained the same. The fiscal year 2026-27 total <br />assessment revenue will not be sufficient to fund the maintenance of all <br />landscaped areas, including water costs, county assessment fees, city <br />administraƟon fees, replacement of planƟngs, irrigaƟon systems, and other district <br />improvements. The equivalent of $265.11 in today’s dollars, based on the <br />Consumer Price Index for California, is $538.00. The Engineer’s Report projects a <br />shortage that will require the City to reduce landscape maintenance and water use <br />so that maintenance costs remain below assessments. <br />City staff began the process of potenƟally increasing the assessments for the <br />Windsor Landscape Maintenance District in 2022 through a Proposi Ɵon 218 <br />compliant voƟng procedure. However, the property owners that aƩended the <br />neighborhood outreach meeƟng on February 2, 2022, voiced their desire that the <br />City undertake more significant outreach to discuss increasing the assessment <br />prior to taking the decision to vote. Staff set up a meeƟng with the Windsor <br />neighborhood again on October 18, 2022, to discuss the assessments. A <br />noƟficaƟon was sent via mail to all property owners and the HOA manager no Ɵfied <br />the residents of the meeƟng via email. About ten residents aƩended the meeƟng <br />to discuss the need for and process for a vote to increase the <br /> <br /> <br />Page 129 of 617