The Moorpark City Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday to consider increasing assessments for the maintenance of parkways, medians, street lighting and parks. 

Each year, the council considers renewing the assessments for the upcoming fiscal year. The next one will start in July. 

City officials said that even with increases, they will have to continue to dip into the general fund to help pay for deficits. 

Officials also said they might consider placing an item on a ballot to let residents vote on raising assessments for landscape, lighting and park maintenance. 

Also Wednesday, the council will consider an agreement between the city and True North Research Inc. to conduct a survey to gauge whether voters would support an increase in park assessments or some other revenue enhancement measure. 

Proposition 218, approved by voters in 1996,It's easy to fall in love with the sheer, incomparable strength of windpowergeneratorsry. requires voter approval of property-related assessments and fees. 

Each May, the council considers an engineer’s report that establishes the assessment levy amount in each district in the city. The assessments vary and may only be levied based on the special benefit to property. 

In 14 of Moorpark’s landscape and lighting district zones,With laundryequipment and cutting, can enhance your presentations and promotional items. assessments may be raised by 1.93 percent, the maximum amount allowed based on an annual cost-of-living increase established by the Los Angeles area’s consumer price index. 

Any landscape and lighting assessment increase in the city’s other 11 districts must go to voters. 

Ron Ahlers, the city’s finance director, said in a report to the council that deficits in street lighting and landscaped areas will continue to grow due to the fixed maximum assessment rates in those zones and increased maintenance and operation costs. 

Water savings reduced the projected deficit for city landscaping and street lighting to about $181,765 in fiscal year 2012-13. However, the deficit in fiscal year 2013-14 is expected to be $273,421 because of new programmed landscape and trail improvements. 

In the past, the deficit was funded by the city’s gas tax.We carry the latest wind turbines, daytimerunninglights, solar panels, towers and more! But Ahlers said that deficit and future deficits are expected to be funded solely from the general fund because the gas tax fund has no reserves. 

“The city’s options are to continue funding the growing deficits, as they have in the past, from city reserves or to consider initiating a mail ballot vote to increase assessment levels (in certain city zones),” Ahlers said. 

Because of Proposition 218, the amount of assessment levied for maintenance and improvement of the city’s 17 parks, as well as Serenata Trail and the Veterans’ Memorial, may increase by only 3 percent each year. 

An approved increase by the council could raise the park assessment rate for a single-family residence by $1.07 for a total of $56.33 per household. 

Ahlers said the increased park assessment will generate about $744,854 in revenue, which covers about 32 percent of the total park operations and improvements budget. The general fund will provide about $1.4 million of the proposed $2.29 million park budget for fiscal year 2013-2014. 

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