Tax Districts’ Renewal Advances
The Port Hueneme City Council voted Wednesday to begin the renewal process for two tax assessment districts and direct staff to study whether to create two others in an effort to save city services threatened by state budget cuts.
Residents in Port Hueneme have paid for parkway and median maintenance through a tax assessment district since 1991 and through a lighting maintenance district since 1988.
The new districts would pay for school crossing guards and park maintenance.
Two council members, Ken Hess and Toni Young, voted against the crossing guard levy. The votes for the other districts were unanimous.
City officials have said the assessment districts are a way to recoup up to $1 million in state budget cuts facing the city.
A staff report assessing the costs of the new districts is due in early April. After the council reviews the report’s findings, the city will hold a public hearing on the districts, tentatively set for May 19.
Last year, the median and parkway district cost property owners a one-time fee of $24.62, Public Works Director Jack Duffy said. Renters were assessed three-fourths of that amount through their rents.
The lighting assessment district cost $22 per resident with renters paying three-fourths of that amount.
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