15-2772 Final Streetlight Assessment Resolution

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purposes and do not receive a special benefit from the Street Lighting Services, including by way of example and not limitation, right -of -ways and utility easements. (B) The Preliminary Rate Resolution, as amended hereunder, is hereby ratified and confirmed. (C) Any and all prior actions of the City Commission associated with the imposition of Street Lighting Assessments or similar fees and charges of every nature whatsoever for previous Fiscal Years, are hereby approved, ratified and confirmed in their entirety. SECTION 5. APPROVAL OF ASSESSMENT ROLL. The Street Lighting Assessment Roll, which is on file with the City Clerk and incorporated herein by reference, is hereby approved. SECTION 6. STREET LIGHTING ASSESSMENTS. (A) The Tax Parcels described in the Street Lighting Assessment Roll are hereby found to be specially benefited by the provision of Street Lighting Services. The apportionment methodology for the Street Lighting Assessments, as set forth in Section 3.03 of the Preliminary Rate Resolution, is hereby approved. Accordingly, a Street Lighting Service Assessment in the amount of $31.88 per ERU is hereby levied and imposed against each Tax Parcel described in the Street Lighting Assessment Roll. (B) The Street Lighting Assessment shall constitute a lien against Assessed Property equal in rank and dignity with the liens of all state, county, district or municipal taxes and other non -ad valorem assessments. Except as otherwise provided by law, such lien shall be superior in dignity to all other liens, titles and claims, until paid. The lien shall be deemed perfected upon adoption of this Resolution and shall attach to the property included on the Street Lighting Assessment Roll as of January 1, 2015, the lien date for ad valorem taxes. SECTION 7. COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS. The Street Lighting Assessments imposed hereunder shall be collected pursuant to the provisions of the Preliminary Rate Resolution and Uniform Assessment Collection Act. Upon adoption hereof and of the Annual Rate Resolution for subsequent Fiscal Years, the City Manager shall cause the certification and delivery of the Street Lighting Assessment Roll to the Tax Collector by September 15, in the manner prescribed by the Uniform Assessment Collection Act. The Assessment Roll as delivered to the Tax Collector may be accompanied by a Certificate of Non -Ad Valorem Assessment Roll in substantially the form attached hereto as Appendix C. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Street Lighting Assessments imposed against Governmental Property shall be direct billed in accordance with Section 5.03 of the Assessment Ordinance. C!