HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-22-20 City Commission Packet Materials - A3. Res 5196 Lighting Assessments for FY21
Commission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission FROM: Bernie Massey, Assistant Treasurer
Laurae Clark, City Treasurer
Kristin Donald, Finance Director SUBJECT: Resolution 5196 / Annual Lighting Assessments for Fiscal Year 2021 MEETING DATE: September 22, 2020 AGENDA ITEM TYPE: Action RECOMMENDATION: Approve Commission Resolution No. 5196 for Annual Lighting
Assessments for Fiscal Year 2021 BACKGROUND: The city pays the associated power bills and scheduled system maintenance for all lighting districts. We then recover the costs paid by the city in the previous fiscal year by assessing property owners in each of the lighting districts for their proportionate share.
MCA 7-12-4332. Resolution to provide for assessment of maintenance costs. It shall be the duty of the city or town council to estimate, as nearly as practicable, the cost of maintaining such lights and furnishing electrical current therefore each year and the portion thereof to be assessed against the property embraced within the district and, before the first Monday in October, to pass
and finally adopt a resolution levying and assessing said property within said district with an amount equal to the proportion of the cost of such maintenance and electrical current so determined to be especially assessed against said property. FISCAL EFFECTS: The amount that will be assessed for all Special Improvement Lighting
Districts for FY20 is $486,247.70. ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Commission.
Attachments: Resolution 5196, Schedules A & B
Memo compiled on: September 1, 2020
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COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 5196
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN,
MONTANA, LEVYING AND ASSESSING MAINTENANCE AND ELECTRICAL
CURRENT COSTS FOR SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT LIGHTING MAINTENANCE
DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN.
WHEREAS, certain lighting maintenance districts have been created with the City of
Bozeman and;
WHEREAS, state law provides for assessing the costs of maintaining lights and furnishing
electrical current annually within these lighting maintenance districts and;
WHEREAS, Section 7-12-4332, M.C.A. provides that the City shall pass a resolution
levying and assessing maintenance costs.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Commission of the City of
Bozeman, Montana, as follows:
Section 1
Districts and Assessments. The lighting maintenance districts and assessments to defray
one hundred percent (100%) of all the costs of maintenance and lighting are hereby levied and
assessed against the property and several lots, pieces and parcels thereof within the lighting
maintenance districts as listed and described on Schedule “A” and Schedule “B”, attached hereto,
and by this reference, said schedules are made a part hereof.
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Section 2
Lot or Parcel Description. That a particular description of each lot, piece, or parcel of land
with the name of the owner thereof, the total number of square feet of said property and the sum
assessed and levied against such property and owner, or either, is set forth in the Schedule of each
district as specified and identified in Schedule “B”.
Section 3
Period of Assessment. That said assessment is to defray costs for Fiscal Year 2021 (July 1,
2020 through June 30, 2021).
Section 4
Disposition of Collections. That the assessments as collected shall be placed in the
respective lighting maintenance funds and shall be used to defray the cost of maintenance and
lighting as provided by law.
Section 5
Notice of Hearing. That the regular meeting of the Commission of the City of Bozeman to
be held on the 22nd day of September, 2020 at 6:00 p.m., at the Commission Room, City Hall,
121 N Rouse Ave., in the City of Bozeman, be designated as the time and place at which objections
to the final approval of this Resolution will be heard and considered by said Commission.
Section 6
Notice. That the City Clerk of the City of Bozeman, published in the Bozeman Daily
Chronicle on September 6, 2020 and September 13, 2020, a notice signed by said Clerk as such,
stating that this Resolution levying and assessing the several amounts set forth in the schedule
attached hereto and made a part of as aforesaid and for the purposes herein will be passed and
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approved by the Commission of the City of Bozeman and is on file in the office of said City Clerk;
that said Notice shall be so published, and such publication shall be made not less than five (5)
days before the date set by the Commission for hearing of objections and the final approval this
Resolution.
Section 7
Certification. The City Clerk is hereby directed upon final passage and approval of this
resolution to certify a copy thereof to the City Finance Director of the City of Bozeman, Montana,
as provided by law.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED by the City Commission of the City of
Bozeman, Montana, at a regular session thereof held on the 22nd day of September, 2020.
___________________________________
CHRIS MEHL
Mayor
ATTEST:
____________________________________
MIKE MAAS
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
___________________________________
GREG SULLIVAN
City Attorney
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October 2020
District Number Fund Number Current Year's Assessment
284 146 6,900.00$
288 147 600.00$
290 148 680.00$
295 149 15,200.00$
361: Includes area of 288 and 290 150 2,400.00$
362 151 3,900.00$
388 152 5,800.00$
400 153 1,700.00$
420 154 1,600.00$
423 155 1,400.00$
453 156 5,200.00$
459 157 26,000.00$
460 158 4,600.00$
46T 158 2,300.00$
461 159 2,450.00$
462 160 2,500.00$
479 161 5,400.00$
480 162 31,500.00$
484 163 1,400.00$
490 164 860.00$
491 165 718.82$
508 166 12,000.00$
556 167 680.00$
572 168 465.00$
618 169 915.00$
637 170 16,500.00$
670 181 5,400.00$
671 182 15,420.56$
672 200 17,800.00$
673 201 3,800.00$
679 203 10,872.24$
680 216 16,500.00$
681 202 9,400.00$
682 204 10,200.00$
685 205 6,903.92$
686 206 12,200.00$
687 207 23,000.00$
688 208 37,000.00$
689 209 8,500.00$
690 210 37,623.91$
691 211 19,500.00$
692 212 11,250.00$
Lighting District Assessment Summary
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693 213 200.00$
694 214 2,400.00$
695 215 1,400.00$
696 217 3,500.00$
697 218 3,374.25$
698 219 3,800.00$
699 220 2,400.00$
700 221 200.00$
701 222 12,000.00$
702 223 200.00$
703 224 7,000.00$
704 225 -$
705 226 -$
707 228 5,800.00$
708 229 -$
709 0 -$
710 0 -$
711 232 8,000.00$
712 233 5,400.00$
714 234 1,900.00$
715 235 4,000.00$
716 236 1,000.00$
719 239 900.00$
720 240 950.00$
721 241 2,500.00$
722 242 650.00$
725 237 400.00$
728 243 2,000.00$
730 245 13,759.00$
734 244 950.00$
743 249 200.00$
749 238 225.00$
751 251 650.00$
752 250 800.00$
755 246 250.00$
757 247 200.00$
758 248 200.00$
Grand Total Billed:486,247.70$
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