This article shall be entitled "A Local Law in Relation to the
Creation of Special District No. 1 of 1999 in the City of Saratoga
Springs, Saratoga County, New York, to be known as the 'Morgan Street
Birch Run Special District.'"
The special district may levy special assessments on privately
owned properties within the district to provide municipal-type services
exclusively for the purpose of promoting the health, safety and general
welfare of the residents of the property as a community and to protect
and enhance the overall property values of the community. The following
municipal-type services are to be specifically provided by the district
in perpetuity:
A. Water system: maintain and repair the 2,170 feet of twelve-inch ductile
iron water mains located within the district boundary which provide
City water to the 36 metered homes, plus the associated valves and
the four fire hydrants located within the district.
B. Sanitary sewer system: maintain and repair the district's approximately
1,500 feet of sanitary sewer mains, including 14 precast concrete
sewer manholes and collector basins, two concrete duplex sewer pumping
stations, including four automatic electric pumps and controls, and
900 feet of three-inch PVC sewer force mains leading from the district's
duplex sewer pumping stations into the City sewer system.
C. Storm sewer system: maintain and repair the district's approximately
2,700 feet of open storm drainage gutters and 27 ten-inch culverts,
plus 17 precast concrete catch basins and 1,200 feet of concrete storm
drains ranging from 12 inches to 24 inches in diameter.
D. Streetlighting system: maintain, repair and replace, as necessary,
the streetlighting system within the district, consisting of 17 cedar
light poles, sodium vapor fixtures and lamps, photo-electric controls
and relays and approximately 2,900 feet of underground two-hundred-forty-volt
cable and conduit.
E. General maintenance: maintain rights-of-way to the water and sewer
mains, sewer pump stations, fire hydrants and storm sewer system,
and such other purposes as may be necessary in carrying out the operation
and maintenance services of the district to protect the health and
safety of residents and the value of the property within the district.
The City, as authorized under the provisions of the General
City Law, the Municipal Home Rule Law, New York Property Tax Law § 102.16
and this article, hereby creates the district.
For the purpose of obtaining funds in the event of an unforeseen
emergency or natural disaster which requires extensive, nonbudgeted
repairs to municipal-type facilities within the district, the special
district shall have the power to levy additional one-time assessments
on the property owners in the district applicable to that year only.
The Board of Directors shall have the power to levy such additional
assessment up to $500 per homeowner in the district. Should a larger
assessment be required to defray, in whole or in part, the cost of
any construction, reconstruction, repair or replacement of a municipal-type
facility within the district, such an assessment shall require the
assent of the majority of the owners of the 36 residential properties,
consistent with this article.
The powers and obligations herein granted and imposed are in
addition to and not in diminution of all powers and obligations existing
under applicable laws of the State of New York and the Charter of
the City of Saratoga Springs.