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Resolution 2015-06RESOLUTION 2015 -6 A RESOLUTION OF THE NAPLES HERITAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT RELATING TO THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS OF THE DISTRICT AND ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2015, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2016, AND REFERENCING THE MAINTENANCE AND BENEFIT SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS TO BE LEVIED BY THE DISTRICT FOR SAID FISCAL YEAR WHEREAS, the District Manager has, prior to the fifteenth (15th) day in June, 2015, submitted to the Board of Supervisors (the "Board ") a proposed budget for the next ensuing budget year along with an explanatory and complete financial plan for each fund of the District, pursuant to the provisions of Section 190.008(2)(a), Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, at least sixty (60) days prior to the adoption of the proposed annual budget and any proposed long -term financial plan or program of the District for future operations (the "Proposed Budget ") the District filed a copy of the Proposed Budget with the general purpose local governing authorities having jurisdiction over the area included in the District pursuant to the provisions of Section 190.008(2)(b), Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, District further posted the Proposed Budget on its website as required pursuant to Section 189.016, Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, on March 3, 2015, the Board set May 5, 2015, as the date for a public hearing thereon and caused notice of such public hearing to be given by publication pursuant to Section 190.008(2)(a), Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, Section 190.008(2)(a), Florida Statutes requires that, prior to October 1 of each year, the District Board by passage of the Annual Appropriation Resolution shall adopt a budget for the ensuing fiscal year and appropriate such sums of money as the Board deems necessary to defray all expenditures of the District during the ensuing fiscal year; and WHEREAS, the District Manager has prepared a Proposed Budget on a Cash Flow Budget basis, whereby the budget shall project the cash receipts and disbursements anticipated during a given time period, including reserves for contingencies for emergency or other unanticipated expenditures during the fiscal year; and WHEREAS, Section 190.021, Florida Statutes provides that the Annual Appropriation Resolution shall also fix the Maintenance Special Assessments and Benefit Special Assessments upon each piece of property within the boundaries of the District benefited, specifically and peculiarly, by the maintenance and/or capital improvement programs of the District, such levy representing the amount of District assessments necessary to provide for payment during the ensuing budget year of all properly authorized expenditures to be incurred by the District, including principal and interest of special revenue, capital improvement and /or benefit assessment bonds, in order for the District to exercise its various general and special powers to implement its single and specialized infrastructure provision purpose; and WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of the Naples Heritage Community Development District finds and determines that the non -ad valorem special assessments it imposes and levies by this Resolution for maintenance on the parcels of property involved will constitute a mechanism by which the property owners lawfully and validly will reimburse the District for those certain special and peculiar benefits the District has determined are received by, and flow to, the parcels of property from the systems, facilities and services being provided, and that the special and peculiar benefits are apportioned in a manner that is fair and reasonable in accordance with applicable assessment methodology and related case law; and WHEREAS, the Chair of the Board of Supervisors may designate the District Manager or other person to certify the non -ad valorem assessment roll to the Tax Collector in and for Collier County political subdivision on compatible electronic medium tied to the property identification number no later than September 15, 2015 so that the Tax Collector may merge that roll with others into the collection roll from which the November tax notice is to be printed and mailed; and WHEREAS, the proceeds from the collections of these imposed and levied non -ad valorem assessments shall be paid to the Naples Heritage Community Development District; and WHEREAS, the Tax Collector, under the direct supervision of the Florida Department of Revenue performs the state work in preparing, mailing out, collecting and enforcing against delinquency the non -ad valorem assessments of the District using the Uniform Collection Methodology for non -ad valorem assessments; and WHEREAS, if the Property Appraiser and the Tax Collector have adopted a different technological procedure for certifying and merging the rolls, then that procedure must be worked out and negotiated with Board approval through the auspices of the District Manager before there are any deviations from the provisions of Section 197.3632, Florida Statutes, and Rule 12D -18, Florida Administrative Code. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF NAPLES HERITAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT; Section 1. The provisions of the foregoing recitals are true and correct and are incorporated herein as dispositive. Section 2. Budget a. The Board of Supervisors has reviewed the District Manager's Proposed Budget, a copy of which is on file with the office of the District Treasurer and the office of the Recording Secretary, and is hereby attached to this resolution, and hereby approves certain amendments thereto, as shown in this Section 2 below. b. The District Manager's Proposed Budget, as amended by the Board, is adopted hereby in accordance with the provisions of Section 190.008(2)(a), Florida Statutes and incorporated herein by reference; provided, however, that the comparative figures contained in the adopted budget may be revised subsequently as deemed necessary by the District Manager to reflect actual revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year 2015 and/or revised projections for fiscal year 2016. C. The adopted budget, as amended, shall be maintained in the office of the District Treasurer and the District Recording Secretary and identified as "The Budget for the Naples Heritage Community Development District for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2016, as Adopted by the Board of Supervisors on May 5, 2015. Section 3. Appropriations There is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the Naples Heritage Community Development District, for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2015, and ending September 30, 2016 the sum of seventy nine thousand eight hundred ninety seven ($79,897) to be raised by the applicable imposition and levy by the Board of applicable non -ad valorem special assessments and otherwise, which sum is deemed by the Board of Supervisors to be necessary to defray all expenditures of the District during said budget year, to be divided and appropriated in the following fashion: TOTAL GENERAL FUND $ 79,897 Total All Funds $ 79,897 Section 4. Supplemental Appropriations The Board may authorize by resolution supplemental appropriations or revenue changes for any lawful purpose from funds on hand or estimated to be received within the fiscal year as follows: a. Board may authorize a transfer of the unexpended balance or portion thereof of any appropriation item. b. Board may authorize an appropriation from the unappropriated balance of any fund. C. Board may increase any revenue or income budget account to reflect receipt of any additional unbudgeted monies and make the corresponding change to appropriations or the unappropriated balance. The District Manager and Treasurer shall have the power within a given fund to authorize the transfer of any unexpended balance of any appropriation item or any portion thereof, provided such transfers do not exceed Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars or have the effect of causing more than 10% of the total appropriation of a given program or project to be transferred previously approved transfers included. Such transfer shall not have the effect of causing a more than $10,000 or 10% increase, previously approved transfers included, to the original budget appropriation for the receiving program. Transfers within a program or project may be approved by the applicable department director and the District Manager or Treasurer. The District Manager or Treasurer must establish administrative procedures, which require information on the request forms proving that such transfer requests comply with this section. Section 5. Maintenance Special Assessment Levy: Fixed and Referenced and to be Levied by the Board a. The Fiscal Year 2016 Maintenance Special Assessment Levy (the "assessment levy ") for the assessment upon all the property within the boundaries of the District based upon the special and peculiar benefit received and further based upon reasonable and fair apportionment of the special benefit, shall be in accordance with the attached Exhibit A, which levy represents the amount of District assessments necessary to provide for payment during the aforementioned budget year of all properly authorized expenditures to be incurred by the District, including principal and interest of special revenue, capital improvement and /or benefit assessment bonds. Said assessment levy shall be distributed as follows: General Fund O & M $ (See Assessment Levy Resolution 2015- 71 b. The designee of the Chair of the Board of Supervisors of the Naples Heritage Community Development District shall be the Manager or the Treasurer of the District designated to certify the non -ad valorem assessment roll to the Tax Collector in and for the Collier County political subdivision, in accordance with applicable provisions of State law (Chapters 170, 190 and 197, Florida Statutes) and applicable rules (Rule 1213-18, Florida Administrative Code) which shall include not only the maintenance special assessment levy but also the total for the debt service levy, as required by and pursuant to law. Introduced, considered favorably, and adopted this 5th day of May, 2015. Naples Heritage Community Development District PA��, Peter J. Lombardi Chairman Attest Calvin ftagutSeordw