PASCO COUNTY, FLORIDA

INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM

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TO:         Honorable Chairman and                             DATE:  7/25/02                       FILE:  EDA02-085

               Members of the Board of

               County Commissioners                               SUBJECT:      Dupree Drive/Conner Drive

                                                                                                            Revised Set Assessment

THRU:    Bipin Parikh, P.E.                                                                 PVAS No. 607

               Assistant County Administrator

               (Development Services)

                                                                                   

FROM:   James C. Widman, P.E.                              REFERENCES:  Special Assessment Ordinance

               Engineering Services Director                                                  No. 97-08; Resolution Nos. 99-236

                                                                                                                 and 00-279

                                                                                                                 Commission District 2

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It is recommended that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners.

 

DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS:

 

Dupree Drive/Conner Drive, PVAS No. 607, was approved at a single public hearing before the Board on July 13, 1999.  Resolution No. 99-236 was approved as a result of that hearing and set an assessment of $13.90 per front foot based upon the estimated total project cost of $264,572.60.  On September 6, 2000, Dupree Drive/Conner Drive was presented to the Board after completion of the project and the actual project costs were totaled.  Resolution No. 00-279 was approved as a result of that hearing and set a final assessment of $11.98 per front foot based upon the actual costs of $228,027.32, such costs included administrative and overhead expenses.  The difference between the estimate and the actual cost was therefore $36,545.28 under the estimated project cost.  The resolution set an interest rate of 8.75% over a ten-year period. There were 114 lots (91 billable parcels), or 19,034 assessable front feet in this project.

 

At the time the project was being prepared for Board approval, the owner of Parcel No. 12-26-18-0020-00600-0010 was listed as having 1,000 front feet and said property consisted of eight lots bordering Conner Drive.  Before the Board's approval of the final assessment roll, the owner sold several lots.  Lot 1 retained the original parcel number, which carried the initial assessment lien.  The assessment roll presented to the Board at its September 6, 2000 meeting only indicated the original parcel number and not the new parcel numbers that resulted from the selling of the individual lots.  The new parcel numbers and corresponding front feet are listed below. 

 

 

Owner                                                        Parcel ID Number                            Front Feet on Conner Dr.

Kevin D. & Tina L. Croucher                      12-26-18-0020-00600-0010                     189.0   front feet

Deborah Lomax                                         12-26-18-0020-00600-0020                     100.5   front feet

Deborah S. Lomax & Mary E.                    12-26-18-0020-00600-0030                     110.5   front feet

                     and George E. Lomax

Fred Lee & Lynette Dyal                            12-26-18-0020-00600-0040                       90.5   front feet

Cheryl E. & Ronald A. Steele                     12-26-18-0020-00600-0050                     100.5   front feet

Pamela Jane Gatrell & Peter Koenig         12-26-18-0020-00600-0060                     100.5   front feet

Donna J. Olsen & Cheryl Keene                12-26-18-0020-00600-0070                     100.5   front feet

David L. & Jessie E. Holsinger                  12-26-18-0020-00600-0080                     208.0   front feet

 

 

In accordance with Ordinance 97-08, Section XVIII, Correction of Errors or Adjustments in the Assessment Roll,

 

"In case of any omission, error or mistake in making up the assessment roll or imposing special benefit assessment liens, the Commission may, at any time, correct such omission, errors or mistakes by resolution upon its own motion provided such correction does not impose a greater special improvement assessment lien on any such lot or parcel of land."

 

 

On February 19, 2002, an Agenda was prepared and submitted to the Board advising of the above discrepancy and new parcel numbers/owners.  The Board authorized the preparation of an assessment initiated by the Board.  A new resolution, assessment roll, and amortization schedule is attached for the Board's consideration, which would correct the proposed assessments of the eight individual parcels mentioned above by modifying the assessments based upon the actual front footage of each parcel. Each of the property owners listed above were sent certified letters advising them of this public hearing, which were mailed on June 5, 2002.

 

ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS:

 

Based upon the attached documents and/or documents on file, some of the alternatives available to the Board in this matter are:

 

1.               Approve a modification to the original set assessment roll and resolution approved by the Board on September 6, 2000.  This modification will correct the assessment of Parcel No. 12-26-18-0020-00600-0010 by breaking this parcel into eight separate parcels, and would assess each of the eight parcels with the appropriate front footages or assessments.  This modification will not modify the assessments of the other 90 parcels that were previously approved by the Board on September 6, 2000.  This alternative requires the approval of the modification of one parcel in the original set assessment roll and resolution, and would authorize the Chairman's signature on the attached new resolution, which adds the seven separate parcels previously not included on the assessment roll and resolution.

 

2.               Allow the original roll and resolution to stand.  This alternative leaves the amount of the assessment for Parcel No. 12-26-18-0020-00600-0010 at $11,980.00 for 1,000 front feet, instead of the correct amount of $2,264.22 for 189 linear feet. 

 

3.               Approve the reduction of 811 front feet from the original 1,000 front feet assessed to Parcel Number 12-26-18-0020-00600-0010.  This option would correctly assess only one parcel and would not assess the other seven lots currently receiving a special benefit from the road-paving project.  This option would reduce the assessment amount collected by $9,715.78 principal and an equitable amount of accrued prorated interest from the Paving Assessment Receivables Account.

 

RECOMMENDATION AND FUNDING:

 

The Engineering Services Department recommends that the Board approve Alternative No. 1, approving the attached assessment roll and resolution, authorize the Chairman's signature on the attached resolution, and direct Secretarial Services to distribute as follows: provide one copy of the executed resolution to the Engineering Design/Stormwater Division, New Port Richey, and one copy of the executed resolution to the Administrative Services Manager, Development Services Branch, New Port Richey.

 

No funding is required at this time.

                                               

ATTACHMENTS:

 

1.      Resolution

2.      Assessment Roll

3.      Amortization Schedule

4.      Proof of Publication

 

JCW/GTR/JMM/eda02085

  

APPROVED AGENDA ITEM FOR

 

DATE: _____________________

 

BY:  _______________________