Okaloosa County BOCC — December 15, 2015 — Resolution Notice of Intent — reading text

RESOLUTION NO.________________ A RESOLUTION OF OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA ELECTING TO USE THE UNIFORM METHOD OF COLLECTING NON-AD VALOREM SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS LEVIED WITHIN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA; STATING A NEED FOR SUCH LEVY; PROVIDING FOR THE MAILING OF THIS RESOLUTION; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Okaloosa County, Florida (the "County") is contemplating the imposition of special assessments for the provision of services, facilities, and programs for property code and nuisance abatement services within the unincorporated area of the County; and WHEREAS, the County intends to use the uniform method for collecting non-ad valorem special assessments for the cost of providing property code and nuisance abatement services to property within the unincorporated area of the County as authorized by section 197.3632, Florida Statutes, as amended, because this method will allow such special assessments to be collected annually on the ad valorem tax bill commencing in November 2016, in the same manner as provided for ad valorem taxes; and WHEREAS, the County held a duly advertised public hearing prior to the adoption of this Resolution, proof of publication of such hearing being attached hereto as Exhibit A. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: 1. Commencing with the Fiscal Year beginning on October 1, 2016, and with the tax statement mailed for such Fiscal Year and continuing until discontinued by the County, the County intends to use the uniform method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments authorized in section 197.3632, Florida Statutes, as amended, for collecting non-ad valorem assessments for the cost of providing property code and nuisance abatement services within the unincorporated area of the County. Such non-ad valorem assessments shall be levied within the unincorporated area of the County. A legal description of such area subject to the assessments is attached hereto as Exhibit B and incorporated by reference. 2. The County hereby determines that the levy of the special assessments is needed to fund the cost of property code and nuisance abatement services in the unincorporated area of the County. 3. Upon adoption, the Clerk is hereby directed to send a copy of this Resolution by United States mail to the Florida Department of Revenue, the Okaloosa County Tax Collector, and the Okaloosa County Property Appraiser by January 10, 2016. 4. This Resolution shall be effective upon adoption.  DULY ADOPTED this 15th day of December, 2015. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA ____________________________ Nathan D. Boyles Chairman Attest: _________________________ J. D. Peacock II, Clerk APPROVED FOR LEGAL SUFFICIENCY _______________________________ Gregory T. Stewart, County Attorney Exhibit B. Legal Description of Area Subject to Uniform Method of Collecting Non-ad Valorem Assessments for Collecting the cost of Providing Property Code and Nuisance Abatement Services The area subject to the uniform method of collecting non-ad valorem assessments for collecting the cost of providing property code and nuisance abatement services shall be the unincorporated area of within the boundary lines of Okaloosa County as provided in section 7.46 of the Florida statutes which are as follows: Beginning on the Alabama state line where same is intersected by range line dividing ranges twenty-five and twenty-six west; thence east on said state line to the intersection of said state line with the range line dividing ranges twenty-one and twenty-two west; thence south on said range line to the Gulf of Mexico; thence in a westerly direction following the meanderings of said gulf, including the waters of said gulf within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, to the line dividing ranges twenty-five and twenty-six west; thence north on said range line to the place of beginning.