Pass: 900 / 86.29% Yes votes ...... 143 / 13.71% No votes

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This measure would create the Crockett Community Services District (CSD) and dissolve the Crockett-Valona Sanitary District, County Sanitation District No. 5 (Port Costa) and County Service Area (CSA) P-1.

California law requires that creation of a CSD be approved by a majority of the voters of the proposed district. If approved by the voters, formation of the CSD and dissolutions of the Crockett-Valona Sanitary District and CSA P-1 will be effective as soon as practicable following the election. Dissolution of County Sanitation District No. 5 (Port Costa) will not become effective until the Regional Water Quality Control Board confirms that the wastewater treatment facility improvements delineated in the Time Schedule Order dated October 19, 2005 are completed and final payment to the contractor is made, as described in the LAFCO Resolution, a copy of which is enclosed with the ballot materials.

The new CSD will be governed by a five-member board of directors elected at large. The voters, when deciding whether to form the district, will elect the initial governing board. The terms of office shall be for four years, except that the two members of the initial board who receive the fewest number of votes will serve two-year terms. The board will govern the district and make decisions about its budget operations and levels of service.

The proposed reorganization is subject to the terms and conditions in the LAFCO Resolution. These terms and conditions authorize the new district to collect, treat and dispose of sewage and storm water; provide public recreation, including parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, community buildings and landscape maintenance; finance street lighting; abate graffiti and acquire and construct library buildings in cooperation with agencies providing library services.

The property taxes, special taxes and other revenues that are currently allocated to the districts being dissolved will be transferred to and become revenues of the new district. No new tax or fee increases are proposed or authorized in conjunction with the proposed reorganization.

If the CSD is formed, assets and liabilities, including the Crockett Community Center, will be transferred from Contra Costa County to the new agency.

Other public services, such as law enforcement, fire protection, schools, health care, social services and the court system, will not be affected by the formation of the new CSD.

The Crockett-Valona Sanitary District initiated this proposal by submitting an application to LAFCO. After analyzing the proposal, and numerous public hearings, LAFCO amended and approved the proposed reorganization.

The proposed boundary is 686+ acres and consists of the Crockett-Valona Sanitary District and County Sanitation District No. 5 (Port Costa) plus an additional 25 parcels adjacent to the northern and western boundaries of the Crockett-Valona Sanitary District.

Date: 2/8/06 Lou Ann Texeira, Executive Officer

With the passage of MEASURE D, both Crockett and Port Costa will be big winners!

We will regain ownership of the historic Crockett Community Center and will insure it for the first time against loss.

Alexander Park, the swimming pool, tennis & bocce courts will be quickly transferred from the Crockett Recreation Association to public ownership for protection.

Our recreation facilities will be unified under comprehensive, local management to achieve cost savings, improve security, and qualify for new grant funding to keep them open.

Advising the elected Board will be a Recreation Commission, comprised of the members of our P-1 Committee and Crockett Recreation Assn, and separate Sanitary Commissions, comprised of the board members of Crockett-Valona Sanitary District and the committee members of Port Costa's Sanitation District #5.

More cost-effective management than we now have under County control will greatly benefit both Crockett and Port Costa

This plan includes no new hires or increased payroll.

There is no tax increase in MEASURE D!

With greater local control, existing services will continue with existing revenues.

A two-thirds voter majority is still required for any increase in the existing recreation assessment.

New state grant funding will be available, such as the $220,000 that would have come to Crockett Community Services District in 2002. Instead we got nothing!

The finances of the Port Costa Sanitary Dept. and Crockett Sanitary Dept. will be kept entirely separate. Neither town will subsidize the other.

Letters of support have been received from the P-1 Committee, Crockett Recreation Assn, Crockett Community Foundation, Crockett Chamber of Commerce, Crockett-Carquinez Fire Dept and Crockett Improvement Assn.

Please join them in voting YES on MEASURE D!

Ruth James Litia Bohlig Resident Veronica Jimenez Resident Ronald D. Wilson Genevieve Marzi Resident

• Formation of the Crockett Community Services District
• Dissolution of the Crockett-Valona Sanitary District
• Dissolution of County Service Area P-1
  2. The effective date of the following component of the reorganization shall be the date the Regional Water Quality Control Board or its staff confirms that the improvements delineated in the Time Schedule Order approved by that Board have been completed and the Sanitation District has made the final payment(s) to its contractor(s) for such improvements.
• Dissolution of County Sanitation District No. 5 C. The Crockett Community Services District shall be governed by a five-member Board of Directors elected at large. The terms of office of the governing board shall be four years, except the two members of the initial Board who receive the fewest number of votes shall serve two-year terms. D. The Community Services District shall be authorized to provide the following types of services:
  1. Collection, treatment and disposal of sewage, waste and storm water of the District and its inhabitants
  2. Public recreation including but not limited to parks, playgrounds, swimming pools and recreation/community buildings
  3. Street lighting
  4. Landscape maintenance
  5. Graffiti abatement
  6. Acquire sites, construct and maintain library buildings and cooperate with other governmental agencies for library services. E. The Community Services District is authorized to continue existing employment contracts, retirement rights and other employee benefits and rights for employees of the dissolved districts. F. Taxes, Charges, Fees and Assessments
  1. The Community Services District is authorized to continue to levy and collect general taxes, fees, charges, assessments and other revenues that are from time to time levied or received by the agencies being dissolved.
  2. The property taxes currently allocated to the agencies being dissolved shall be reapportioned to the Crockett Community Services District.
  3. Special tax assessments received by County Service Area P-1 pursuant to County Ordinance No. 86-24 and other tax revenues allocated for improvement, maintenance and operation of recreation and park facilities and services within CSA P-1 shall be reallocated to the Crockett Community Services District. G. The Community Services District shall include the following properties:
  1. Territory currently within the Crockett-Valona-Sanitary District
  2. Territory currently within County Sanitation District No. 5 (Port Costa)
  3. Kendall Avenue/Vista Del Rio Parcels
• 720, 725 and 730 Kendall Avenue
• 2077, 2101, 2105, 2117, 2127, 2137, 2158 and 2160 Vista Del Rio
  4. Shoreline Territory
• Crockett Marina (including Nantucket Restaurant)
• C&H Sugar Refinery (830 Loring Avenue)
• Crockett Cogeneration Power Plant (550 Loring Avenue)
• District Wastewater Treatment Plant and Pump Station
  5. Assessor Parcel Numbers 368-141-006, 368-141-010 and 368-144-011. H. Two zones shall be created for sanitation purposes. Expenses and revenues related to, respectively, the Crockett and Port Costa sanitation facilities shall be allocated by zone in order to assign sewage facility and treatment costs for each community to that community and to avoid having them being borne by the other community.
  1. The Crockett Zone shall include the territory within the predecessor Crockett-Valona Sanitary District and areas to be served by that District.
  2. The Port Costa Zone shall include County Sanitation District No. 5 and areas to be served by that District. I. On the date of the formation of the Community Services District, or as soon thereafter as practicable:

2. All assets and liabilities, physical and personal, monies or funds, including cash on hand and monies due but uncollected of County Service Area P-1, for recreation and park purposes held in or to be allocated to Fund 265100, shall be transferred to and become the assets and liabilities of the Crockett Community Services District.

3. Fee ownership of the Crockett Community Center and the underlying assessor parcel (APN 354-103-025-4) shall be transferred to and become the assets of the Crockett Community Services District provided that a. The District is accepting the property and facility "as is" b. The transfer includes all assets and liabilities associated with the Community Center c. Prior to the transfer of these assets the District shall reimburse the County for all fees and costs, including staff time, associated with the formation of the Community Services District and the transfer of property to the new district. J. On the effective date of the dissolution of County Sanitation District No. 5, or as soon thereafter as practicable:
1. All assets and liabilities, physical and personal, monies or funds, including cash on hand and monies due but uncollected of County Sanitation District No. 5 held in or to be allocated to Fund 238000 shall be transferred to and become the assets and liabilities of the Crockett Community Services District. K. For the purposes of winding up the affairs of the dissolved districts the Crockett Community Services District shall be the successor agency. L. The intent of the Commission is that the Community Services District and the County of Contra Costa reach an agreement on the continued, long-term and equitable use of a portion of the Community Center as office space for the County Supervisor whose Supervisorial District includes Crockett, and for the occasional use of the Community Center for County-sponsored community events. M. The intent of the Commission is that the Community Services District create Advisory Commissions for specific services, the initial members of which shall be the members of the governing boards or advisory boards of the agencies being dissolved. N. All existing codes, ordinances, rules, regulations, specifications, resolution, fee schedules and policies of the dissolved agencies shall remain in effect until modified by the Board of Directors of the Community Services District.
8. All subsequent proceedings in connection with this reorganization shall be conducted only in compliance with the approved boundaries set forth in the attachments and any terms and conditions specified in this resolution.
9. The Executive Officer be directed to conduct subsequent proceedings in compliance with the Commission determinations upon signing of the resolution.

• * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 12th day of October 2005, by the following vote: AYES: Allen, Bristow, Glover, Meadows, D. Piepho, Tatzin, Uilkema NOES: ABSTAINS: I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of a resolution passed and adopted by this Commission on the date stated above