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Monrovia staff recommends phased citywide assessment to close $1.14M parks and lighting shortfall
Summary
City staff outlined three five-year options to consolidate Monrovia’s two maintenance assessment districts into a single citywide district and recommended a phased approach that council members favored (50% year‑one implementation with later increases) to limit the immediate impact on residents.
Monrovia City Council heard a staff report Tuesday on options to form a combined citywide lighting, landscape and parks maintenance assessment district designed to stop a growing operating deficit.
Deputy Administrative Services Director Ray Bowman told the council the city currently runs two separate districts whose assessments have not kept pace with rising costs and that the projected deficit for fiscal 2024–25 is $1,140,000. "The assessments have not kept pace with increasing costs, and the projected deficit for 24–25 is 1,140,000.00," Bowman said during his presentation.
Bowman presented…
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