HomeMy WebLinkAbout14-173RESOLUTION NO. 14-173
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 WITHN THE PROPOSED
LAKEWOOD PARK 2 MUNICIPAL SERVICES BENEFIT
UNIT; DESCRIBING THE AREA SUBJECT TO THE
ASSESSMENT; STATING A NEED FOR THE LEVY;
PROVIDING FOR MAILING THE RESOLUTION; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida
(the "Board") is contemplating the creation of the Lakewood Park 2 Municipal Services
Benefit Unit (the "Lakewood Park 2 MSBU") to fund the cost of a project to provide
potable water improvements to properties within the boundaries of the proposed
Lakewood Park 2 MSBU (the "Project") in St. Lucie County (the "County"); and
WHEREAS, the Board, as the governing body of the County, intends to use the
uniform method for collecting non-ad valorem special assessments levied within the
Lakewood Park 2 to fund the cost of the Project 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".
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
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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 proposed Lakewood Park 2 MSBU to fund the cost of a project to provide potable
water improvements to properties within the boundaries of the proposed Lakewood Park
2 MSBU. A description of the boundaries of the real property within the proposed
Lakewood Park 2 MSBU 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
Lakewood Park 2 MSBU 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 fund the cost of the Project.
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, and 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
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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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 Matter at the Post Offices in Fort Pierce, Sl. 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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EXHIBIT B
DESCRIPTION: LAKEWOOD PARK 2 MSBU
A PARCEL OF LAND LYING IN SECTIONS 1,2, 11,12,13 AND 14, T-34-S, R-39-E. ST.
LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA. SAID PARCEL BEING MORE PARTICULARLY
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
THE WEST 1/2 OF SECTION 1, T-34-S, R-39-E; AND SECTION 2, T-34-S, R-39-E;
AND EAST'/z OF SECTION 11, T-34-S, R-39-E AND; THE WEST'/2 OF SECTION 12,
T-34-S, R-39-E AND; THE NORTH'/z OF THE NORTHWEST'/4 OF SECTION 13, T-
34-S, R-39-E AND; THE NORTHEAST'/4 OF SECTION 14, T-34-S, R-39-E, LESS AND
EXCEPT THE SOUTHWEST'/4 OF THE NORTHEAST'/4 OF SAID SECTION 14.
LESS AND EXCEPT ALL ROAD AND CANAL RIGHT OF WAYS OF RECORD AND
ALL COUNTY OWNED PARCELS OF RECORD.
OCTOBER 18, 2005
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