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Home My WebLink About16-181RESOLUTION NO. 16-181 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 2017, in the same manner as provided for ad valorem taxes; and WHEREAS, on October 18, 2016, 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". Page 1 of 5 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 2017-2018 Fiscal Year and with the ad valorem tax bills issued in November, 2017, 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. Page 2 of 5 After motion and second, the vote on this Resolution was as follows: Chair Paula Lewis AYE Vice Chairman Kim Johnson AYE Commissioner Tod Mowery ABSENT Commissioner Chris Dzadovsky AYE Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson AYE PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED this 18th day of October, 2016. ATTEST: ST. LUCIE COUNTY SUSTAINABILITY DISTRICT By: ; Chair Page 3 of 5 EXHIBIT A PROOF OF PUBLICATION Page 4 of 5 Treasure Coast Newspapers I TCPALM St. Lucie News -Tribune 1939 SE Federal Highway, Stuart, FL 34994 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF ST. LUCIE Linda Klein, who on oath says that she is Classified Inside Sales Before the undersigned authority personally appeared, 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 published 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 t n St. Lucie and affiant County, Florida, for a period of one year next preceding the first publication of the attached copy o 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, St. Lucie County, Florida and has been for a period of one year next preceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement. -^ Y customer 1261608 Meeting: 10/18/16: Notice of Intent Meeting: 10/18/16 435195 - ST LUCIE COUNTY BOCC Pub Dates September 20, 2016 September 27, 2016 October 4, 2016 October 11, 2016 Sworn to and sub efl before this day of, October 10, 2016, by D� who is Linda I{{¢tn (X) personally known to me or as identification. ( ) who has produced Sandra Coldren Notary Public l--li SMM COLDREN 35MY COMMISSION # FF OO17EXPIRES: EX.. Apri20 l'ic unoerxrirers Bonded Thru Notary PuW St. Lucie News Tribune Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Ad Number: 1261608 Advertiser: St Lucie County Board of County C... 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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 Page 5 of 5