HomeMy WebLinkAbout14-164RESOLUTION NO. 14-164
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
STATING ITS INTENT TO USE THE UNIFORM METHOD
OF COLLECTING NON-AD VALOREM SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS LEVIED WITHIN THE ENERGY SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT DISTRICT; DESCRIBING THE AREA
SUBJECT TO THE ASSESSMENT; STATING A NEED
FOR THE LEVY; PROVIDING FOR MAILING THE
RESOLUTION; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, St. Lucie County, Florida (the "County") created the St. Lucie
County Sustainability District (the "District") for purposes of offering an energy
financing program throughout the County pursuant to which the District may impose
non-ad valorem assessments against real property, with the consent of the owners of
such property, to finance the acquisition and construction of energy conservation,
energy efficiency, renewable energy, wind resistance and sustainability improvements
(the "Improvements"); and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the District (the "Board"), as the
governing body of the District, intends to use the uniform method for collecting such
non-ad valorem special assessments to fund the cost of the Improvements as
authorized by Section 197.3632, Florida Statutes because this method will allow the
special assessments to be collected annually commencing in November 2015, in the
same manner as provided for ad valorem taxes; and
WHEREAS, on October 21, 2014, the Board held a duly advertised public
hearing to consider the adoption of this resolution, proof of publication of this hearing is
attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit "A".
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the
St. Lucie County Sustainability District, Florida, as follows:
Section 1: Commencing with the 2015-2016 Fiscal Year and with the ad
valorem tax bills issued in November, 2015, the Board intends to use the uniform
method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments authorized in Section 197.3632,
Florida Statutes for collecting non-ad valorem assessments levied within the District to
fund the cost of the Improvements. A description of the boundaries of the real property
within the District and subject to the levy is attached hereto and made a part hereof as
Exhibit "B". The non-ad valorem assessments levied by the District are annual
assessments which will continue from year to year until discontinued by the District.
Section 2: The Board hereby determines that the levy of the assessments is
necessary to fund the cost of the Improvements.
Section 3: Upon adoption, the County Attorney or his designee is hereby
directed to send a copy of this resolution by United States mail to the Florida
Department of Revenue, the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser and the St. Lucie
County Tax Collector.
Section 4: This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption.
After motion and second, the vote on this Resolution was as follows:
Chair Paula Lewis AYE
Vice Chair Kim Johnson AYE
Commissioner Chris Dzadovsky AYE
Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson AYE
Commissioner Tod Mowery AYE
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PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 21st day of October, 2014.
ATTEST:
ST. LUCIE COUNTY
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Before the undersigned authority personally appeared, Sherri Cipriani, who on oath says that she is Classified Inside Sales
Aanager of the St. Lucie News-Tribune, a daily newspaper published at Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County, Florida: that the
attached copy of advertisement was publshed in the St. Lucie News-Tribune in the following issues below. Affiant further says
gat the said St Lucie News-Tribune is a newspaper published in Fort Pierce, in said St. Lucie County, Florida, and that said
iewspaper has heretofore been continuously published in said St. Lucie County, Florida, daily and distributed in St. Lucie
;ounty, Florida, for a period of one year next preceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement; and affiant
urther says that she has neither paid or promised any person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate, commission or refund for
he purpose of securing this advertisement for publication in the said newspaper. The St. Lucie News-Tribune has been entered
rs Periodical Matter at the Post Offices in Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Florida and has been for a period of one year next
rreceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement.
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EXHIBIT 6
DESCRIPTION: ST. LUCIE COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT
The boundaries of the St. Lucie County Sustainability District are coterminous with the
boundaries of St. Lucie County which are described as follows: Beginning on the
eastern boundary of the State of Florida at a point where the north section line of
section thirteen, township thirty-seven south, range forty-one east, produced easterly,
would intersect the same; thence westerly on the north line of said section and other
sections to the northwest corner of section eighteen, township thirty-seven south, range
forty-one east; thence south on the range line between ranges forty and forty-one east,
to the township line between townships thirty-seven and thirty-eight south; thence west
on the said township line to the range line dividing ranges thirty-six and thirty-seven
east; thence north on said range line, concurrent with the east boundary of Okeechobee
County, to the northwest corner of township thirty-four south, range thirty-seven east;
thence east on the township line dividing townships thirty-three and thirty-four south, to
the Atlantic Ocean; thence continuing easterly to the eastern boundary of the State of
Florida; thence southerly along said east boundary, including the waters of the Atlantic
Ocean within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the place of beginning.
12/30/2009
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