PETITION FROM RESIDENTS TO FORM UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT 
ON 5 LOTS ON BRAEHOLM, HERMOSA VIEW, ETC.

 

Recommendation:

Approve funding for preliminary engineering and direct staff to work with SCE and return with contracts for project consultants.

 

Background:

In accordance with your direction, staff provided start up assistance to the residents in this area. These properties are located on the ends of Braeholm and Hermosa View. They are interested in undergrounding one pole line that exists at the rear of the lots. SCE has walked the area and, according to them, it can be undergrounded with appropriate additional easements.

This is a very small district and we may be able to move this along faster after SCE has done the engineering work. SCE has a backlog of engineering now and it will probably take six months before it will be done.

In other districts, the City Council has advanced the preliminary engineering funds, with these funds being returned once the district bonds are sold. The preliminary engineering cost on this project may not be as much as the others considering the small size of the proposed district. The two other districts had a $15,000 preliminary engineering deposit.

Once the preliminary engineering work is done, the formal assessment process will be started. Since this is so small, we may be able to use a different process in forming the district.

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