HomeMy WebLinkAbout14-183RESOLUTION NO. 14-183
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA,
STATING ITS INTENT TO USE THE UNIFORM METHOD
OF COLLECTING NON-AD VALOREM SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS LEVIED WITHIN THE COUNTY TO FUND
REMEDIATION AND ABATEMENT OF UNSAFE AND
UNSANITARY CONDITIONS; DESCRIBING THE AREA
SUBJECT TO THE ASSESSMENT; STATING A NEED
FOR THE LEVY; PROVIDING FOR MAILING THE
RESOLUTION; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, by enactment of Ordinance No. 14-018, the Board of County
Commissioners (the "Board") of St. Lucie County, Florida (the "County") provided for the
imposition of non-ad valorem special assessments against certain real property within
the County to fund the costs associated with services related to the remediation and
abatement of unsafe and unsanitary conditions (the "Remediation Services"); and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 14-018 described the area within which the County
may impose such special assessments as the County's Urban Service Boundary as
defined in the St. Lucie County Comprehensive Plan, and established such area as a
special assessment district (the "SAD"); and
WHEREAS, the Board, as the governing body of the County, intends to use the
uniform method for collecting such non-ad valorem special assessments 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 County Commissioners
of St. Lucie County, 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 by the County within
the SAD. A description of the boundaries of the real property within the SAD and subject
to the levy is attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit "B". The non-ad
valorem assessments levied by the County within the SAD are annual assessments
which will continue from year to year until discontinued by the County.
Section 2: The Board hereby determines that the levy of the assessments is
necessary to recover the cost of remedying and abating unsafe and unsanitary
conditions.
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 Frannie Hutchinson AYE
Vice Chair Paula Lewis AYE
Commissioner Tod Mowery AYE
Commissioner Chris Dzadovsky AYE
Commissioner Kim Johnson AYE
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PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 21st day of October, 2014.
ATTEST:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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Before the undersigned authority personally appeared, Sherri Cipriani, who on oath says that she is Classified Inside Sales
Manager 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
that the said St Lucie News-Tribune is a newspaper published in Fort Pierce, in said St. Lucie County, Florida, and that said
newspaper has heretofore been continuously published in said St. Lucie County, Florida, daily and distributed in St. Lucie
County, Florida, for a period of one year next preceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement; and affiant
further says that she has neither paid or promised any person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate, commission or refund for
the purpose of securing this advertisement for publication in the said newspaper. The St. Lucie News-Tribune has been entered
as Periodical Marier at the Post Offices in Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Florida and has been for a period of one year next
preceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement.
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DESCRIPTION: SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
The boundaries of the Special Assessment District are as follows:
That portion of the unincorporated area of the County lying to the east of the following
described line: begin at the point Interstate 95 enters the County from Indian River
County and run southerly along Interstate 95 to Angle Road; then run westerly along
Angle Road to Florida's Turnpike; then run southerly along Florida's Turnpike to Picos
Road; then run westerly along Picos Road to Gentile Road; then run southerly along
Gentile Road to Okeechobee Road; then run easterly along Okeechobee Road to
Florida's Turnpike; then run southerly along Florida's Turnpike to Interstate 95; then run
southerly along Interstate 95 to Glades Cutoff Road; then run westerly along Glades
Cutoff Road to C-24 Canal; then run southerly along C-24 Canal to Juliette Avenue;
then run westerly along Juliette avenue to Salvatierra Boulevard; then run southerly
along Salvatierra Boulevard to Tanforan Boulevard; then run easterly along Tanforan
Boulevard to Interstate 95; then run southerly along Interstate 95 to the point at which it
enters Martin County.
* The County provides Remediation Services solely within the unincorporated area of
the County and therefore will not impose or collect non-ad valorem assessments to fund
Remediation Services from real property located within the corporate limits of any
municipality.
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