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RESOLUTION NO. 25R-07-142: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LAUDERHILL, FLORIDA RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF NUISANCE ABATEMENT SELF HELP SERVICES WITHIN THE CITY OF LAUDERHILL CITY LIMITS ON SPECIFIED PARCELS; DECLARING THE ESTIMATED NON-AD VALOREM SPECIAL ASSESSMENT RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026; PROVIDING FOR IMPOSITION OF THE UNIFORM METHOD FOR COLLECTING NON-AD VALOREM SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ON THE ANNUAL TAX BILL FOR ALL RELATED COSTS AND FEES FOR THE DESIGNATED AREAS; STATING A NEED FOR SUCH LEVY TO COVER THE COSTS AND FEES INCURRED BY THE CITY FOR NUISANCE ABATEMENT SELF-HELP SERVICES; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL; AUTHORIZING A PUBLIC HEARING AND DIRECTING THE PROVISION OF NOTICE THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE MAILING OF THIS RESOLUTION; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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Request Action:
Pass a Resolution to approve the preliminary rate resolution providing the estimated non-ad valorem special assessments that will be charged on the Annual Broward County Tax Bill for actual costs of Nuisance Abatement on particular individual parcels if violations existed and the corresponding invoice for self-help remedies were not paid timely and re-imposing the uniform method for collecting this assessment only for variable effected individual parcels.
Need Summary Explanation/ Background:
The City of Lauderhill is imposing the costs and expenses associated with Nuisance Abatement violations that were not paid timely only on individual parcels for the costs and fees incurred by the City for self-help services related to nuisance abatement within the incorporated area of the City of Lauderhill. These special assessments would be imposed and collected annually solely upon the property of those violators who have failed to timely pay the invoice for nuisance abatement services rendered by, or on behalf of, the City. The preliminary rate must be submitted to the Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office no later than August 4, 2025.
Cost Summary/ Fiscal Impact:
The City of Lauderhill passed and adopted the Original Intent Resolution No. 12R-02-11 to begin imposing Assessments throughout the incorporated area of the City of Lauderhill as a non-ad valorem assessment collected on the Annual Tax Bill solely upon the property of those violators who have failed to correct the violations, resulting in the City’s self-help services to remedy the violation and causing the violators to be billed for those services. If the violator still then did not timely pay the invoice for the amounts due for those self-help remedy services provided then the City has the right to impose a special assessment upon that individual property in the amount of the costs and fees incurred by the City for the self-help services rendered. The assessment for each individual violator property would vary depending on the nature of the violation and the type of self-help remedy services that were necessary. Only the necessary actual costs, fees, and expenses to the City would be assessed upon the individual property of the violator, if any exist. The total estimated total assessments in the amount of $347,650.00 are to be assessed. A public hearing on this matter will be held on September 12, 2025 at or about 6:00 p.m. prior to the adoption of the Final Rate Resolution for the purpose of receiving public comment on the imposition of the uniform method of collection of non-ad valorem special assessments for Nuisance Abatement violations. The corresponding Ordinance will also be heard on first reading on September 12, 2025 and the second reading and adoption of the Ordinance is scheduled for September 29, 2025 @ 6:00 p.m. All owners will be provided notice of the estimated proposed assessment, if any on their property, and of the fact that they have a right to file written objections, to appear and to be heard at the public hearings. Notice will be sent to each individual property owner via the TRIM Notice sent by the Broward County Appraiser’s Office and Notice was already published in the newspaper. The estimated preliminary rate for the assessment must be approved and forwarded to the Broward County Property Appraiser by August 4, 2025. Revenues in the estimated amount of $347,650.00 will be collected with this annual assessment. Additional revenues in an unknown amount may also be realized with the interest earned on the potential investment of these monies.
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Ex. A - Rate Schedule
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