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HEARING - Department of Transportation and Environmental Management Department recommending the Board:
1) Conduct a public hearing to consider public comment on the Annual Written Report of Benefit Assessments/Service Charges for the Zones of Benefit within County Service Area 3 for vector control and snow removal services; and
2) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 096-2024 confirming the Annual Written Report and authorizing the benefit assessment/service charges to be collected in the same manner as the County’s ad valorem real property taxes for Fiscal Year 2024-25, noting that the pre-existing benefit assessments/service charges have been in place and collected prior to the effective date of Proposition 218, with no increases in the amounts and no change in the methodology for calculating said amounts.
FUNDING: County Service Area Benefit Assessments/Service Charges. (100%)
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
County Service Area 3 was established by Resolution 9-63 on January 21, 1963, to provide “control or destruction of insects injurious to plant life” and “the eradication of insects which could introduce dangerous infection or communicable diseases” within the City of South Lake Tahoe and unincorporated areas of the Tahoe Basin, which together form the South Lake Tahoe Vector Control District (District). The District encompasses approximately 195 square miles of El Dorado County. The benefit assessments/service charge for Mosquito Abatement is $6 per parcel.
Two snow removal Zones of Benefit within County Service Area 3 were formed to fund snow removal from roads within the County Maintained Mileage System and to offset the cost of acquiring snow removal equipment utilized within the Zone boundaries. The benefit assessment/service charge for the West Shore Snow Zone of Benefit is $50 per improved parcel. The benefit assessment/service charge for the South Shore Snow Removal Zone of Benefit is $20 per improved parcel. The West Shore and S...
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