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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding County Service Area (CSA) No. 41, proposed benefit assessment for road related repairs, improvements and maintenance in Fiscal Year 2018-2019, Fourth District, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)
a) Consider recommendations regarding the CSA 41, proposed benefit assessment for road related repairs, improvements and maintenance in Fiscal Year 2018-2019;
b) Receive oral and written testimony and written protests that have been filed and consider such protests and testimony, if any;
c) Tabulate written property owner ballots based on a weighting of the financial impact of the assessment for each parcel;
d) If there is not a majority protest at the conclusion of the public hearing, adopt the Resolution entitled “Resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California Imposing a 2018-2019 Benefit Assessment within CSA 41”;
e) If there is a majority protest, maintain the previous 2017-2018 assessment rates, and return the item to the Roads Committee for review and further recommendations, if any;
f) Receive and file, upon approval of the assessment, the Report entitled “Engineer’s Report Proposed 2018-2019 Assessment for CSA 41 Area Road Maintenance and Capital Improvements” with the Clerk of the Board; and
g) Find that the proposed action(s) is for the establishment, modification, structuring, restricting, or approval of rates, tolls, fares, or other charges by public agencies which the public agency finds are for the purpose of meeting operating expenses and maintaining projects within existing service areas, that the project is therefore exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to 14 CCR 15273(a), and approve the filing of a Notice of Exemption on that basis and adopt the findings contained therein.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY