Explanation
1. BACKGROUND: This Ordinance is to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area, including: Highfield Drive, Milton Avenue from Highfield Drive to and including parcel numbers 010-110713 and 010-110714.
All costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and now the assessing ordinance should be passed.
2. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION: Emergency action is requested in order that the assessment process may be completed prior to the street light note’s maturity date of November 1, 2018.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, property owners have submitted a petition for a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring for the Broad Meadows - Highfield Drive area, including: Highfield Drive, Milton Avenue from Highfield Drive to and including parcel numbers 010-110713 and 010-110714; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 0954-2017, passed May 8, 2017, authorized the installation of said street lighting system under the assessment procedures; and
WHEREAS, all costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and now the assessing ordinance should be passed; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Power, Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting system with ornam...
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