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Council approves levy, collection of Village Maintenance Assessment District fees
Summary
The council adopted a resolution to levy and collect assessments for the Village Maintenance Assessment District (VMAD) at $43 per linear foot for FY2025–26, a rate structure adopted previously in 2021 under Proposition 218.
The City of Big Bear Lake held a public hearing June 11 and adopted a resolution levying and collecting assessments for the Village Maintenance Assessment District (VMAD) for fiscal year 2025–26.
Staff said the VMAD, formed in 1992 under the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972, funds landscape and lighting maintenance, trash removal, pressure washing, street sweeping, snow removal and similar village upkeep. The district’s engineer’s report calculates a total FY25–26 budget of $510,020. Under the assessment structure adopted in 2021, the city pays roughly 56 percent of district costs as a general benefit and assessed village properties cover the remaining 44 percent. The FY25–26 assessment equates to $43 per linear foot for village property frontage.
Council opened and closed the public hearing without public testimony and voted to levy the assessment and place it on the roll for collection.
Staff said the 2021 rate structure was designed to close an ongoing funding gap over five years and that the FY25–26 rate is the year‑three levy under that previously adopted schedule; that schedule was adopted after a Proposition 218 majority protest process in 2021 and there was no majority protest at that time.
The council’s action authorizes the city to collect the assessed amounts and continue funding the village maintenance program for the coming year.
