The Enforcement Officer shall keep an account of the costs of abating such nuisances, together with an administrative charge in the amount of fifty-eight (58%) percent of the costs of abatement. The Enforcement Officer shall send such account and a report and assessment list to the City Clerk and Council after the nuisance has been abated. Such report shall refer to each separate lot or parcel of land by description sufficient to identify such lot or parcel, together with the expense and administrative charge proposed to be assessed against each separate lot or parcel of land.
(776-CS, Amended, 05/28/1992)
The City Clerk shall make a copy of such assessment list as provided in Section 5-5-303 of Article 3 of this chapter and notice of the time and place when and where the assessment list will be submitted to the Council for a hearing and confirmation, notifying the responsible persons that they may appear at such time and place and object to any matter contained therein. The mailing of such notice shall be made and completed at least ten (10) days before the time set for the hearing. Such notice shall be substantially in the following form:
Nuisance Abatement
Notice is hereby given that on ____, 20___, at the hour of 8:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the City of Turlock, 900 North Palm Street, Turlock, California, a report and assessment list for abatement of a nuisance, to wit:
_____________________________ will be presented to the City Council of said City for consideration and confirmation, and that any and all interested persons having any objections to said report and assessment list, or to any matter or thing contained therein, may appear at said time and place and be heard.
DATED:
City Clerk of the City of Turlock
At the time and place fixed for receiving and considering such report, the Council shall hear the same, together with any objections which may be raised by any of the responsible persons liable to be assessed for the work of abating such nuisance, and the Enforcement Officer shall attend such meeting with his record thereof, and, upon such hearing, the Council may make such modifications in the proposed assessments therefor as the Council may deem necessary, after which such report and assessment list shall be confirmed by resolution.
In addition to being a personal debt, the assessment for abating such nuisance upon, or in the front or rear of, or adjacent to the various lots or parcels of land respectively referred to in such report shall constitute special assessments against such respective lots or parcels of land and, after thus made and confirmed, shall constitute a lien on such property for the amount of such assessments until paid.
After the confirmation of the report, a copy shall be given to the Finance Director, who may bill the responsible party and who may receive the amount due on the assessment and issue receipts at any time after the confirmation and until a list of unpaid assessments shall have been given annually to the County Auditor by the Finance Department for effecting collection on the tax roll at the time and in the manner of ordinary municipal taxes. The descriptions of the parcels reported shall be those used for the same parcels on the County Assessor's map books for the current year. All laws and ordinances applicable to the levy, collection, and enforcement of City taxes are hereby made applicable to such special assessments, and the liens of such assessments shall have the priority of the taxes with which the assessments are collected.