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Residents protest large maintenance assessment increases as Merced continues hearings for ballot count
Summary
The council heard staff presentations and public concerns about proposed assessment increases across 12 maintenance districts — some increases were large for long-unupdated districts — and continued the public hearing to Feb. 2 so ballots can be opened and counted.
Merced City staff presented proposed annual assessment increases for 12 underfunded landscape/maintenance districts on Jan. 20 and the council agreed to continue the public hearing to Feb. 2 to allow staff to open and tally mailed ballots.
Stacy Hicks, landscape coordinator, reviewed each district and the proposed per-unit annual increases (examples given in the staff presentation included $56.11 for Quail Creek, $75.23 for Oakmont, $151.39 for Olivewood and a much larger increase for Ferren Park). Hicks told the council outreach included three town halls, social-media posts, mailed materials and one-on-one calls with property owners.
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