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A PROPOSITION 218
In November 1996 voters of the State of California passed Proposition 218 which added
Article ?CHID to the Caliiornta Constitution requiring now procedures for assessment
districts. Article XLIID requires that assessments comply with stated provisions by ,July 1,
1997, unless an assessment ciistr ct meets certain exemptions. The exemptions from the
,procedural and approval requirements are set forth in Section 6 of the Article and include
the following:
"(a) Any assessment imposed exclusively to finance the capital costs or
maintenance and operation elpenses for sidewalks, streets, sewers,
water, flood control, drainage erns or vector control."
with the District funding items that are considered exempt under provision (a) quoted
above, specifically street and sidewalk improvements. sing the definitions provided by
the Office of the Controller for the States of Calftrnia - in the Guidelines Relating to Gas
Tax Expenditures published by the Division of Lobal Government' Fiscal Affairs, street
improvements include street lighting.
It is the Assessment Engineer's understanding thatthe City has determined that the
highest assessment rates used to calculate the annual assessments in years prior to the
approval of Proposition 218 established the IrnaDdmum as ssment rates. Therefore, s„ o
long as the assessment rates do not exceed the maximum mites established prior to the
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