10A Action 2008 0602 Attach - Preliminary Official Statement

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December 10 and April 10. Taxes on unsecured property are due August 1 and become delinquent August 31. Supplemental Assessments. A bill enacted in 1983, SB 813 (Statutes of 1983, Chapter 498) provides for the supplemental assessment and taxation of property as of the occurrence of a change in ownership or completion of new construction. Previously, statutes enabled the assessment of such changes only as of the next tax lien date following the change and thus delayed the realization of increased property taxes from the new assessments for up to 14 months. As enacted, Chapter 498 provided increased revenue to redevelopment agencies to the extent that supplemental assessments as a result of new construction or changes of ownership occur within the boundaries of redevelopment projects subsequent to the tax lien date. To the extent such supplemental assessments occur within the Project Area, Tax Revenue may increase. Property Tax Administration Costs. In 1990, the Legislature enacted SB 2557 (Chapter 466, Statutes of 1990) which allows counties to charge for the cost of assessing, collecting and allocating property tax revenues to local government jurisdictions on a prorated basis. It has been the practice of most California counties, including Alameda County, to reduce an agency's tax increment or bill an agency for their pro rata share of property tax administration costs. The amount deducted by the County from fiscal year 2006-07 tax increment revenues allocable to the Project Area was $89,208.34, or 0.92% of tax increment revenue paid to the Agency. For purposes of projectory Tax Revenues, the Fiscal Consultant has assumed the County will deduct 0.92% of Tax Increment on an annual basis. Unitary Property Commencing in the 1988/89 fiscal year, the Revenue and Taxation Code of the State of California changed the method of allocating property tax revenues derived from state assessed utility properties. It provides for the distribution of state assessed values to tax rate areas by a county-wide mathematical formula rather than assignment of state assessed value according to the location of those values in individual tax rate areas. Commencing with the 1988/89 fiscal year, each county has established one county-wide tax rate area. The assessed value of all unitary property in the county has been assigned to this tax rate area and one tax rate is levied against all such property ("Unitary Revenues"). The property tax revenue derived from the assessed value assigned to the county-wide tax rate area shall be allocated as follows: (1) each jurisdiction will be allocated up to 2% of the increase in Unitary Revenues on a pro rata basis county-wide; and (2) any decrease in Unitary Revenues or increases less than 2%, or any increase in Unitary Revenues above 2% will be allocated among jurisdictions in the same proportion of each jurisdiction's Unitary Revenues received in the prior year to the total Unitary Revenues county-wide. However, legislation adopted in 2006 (SB 1317, Chapter 872) and taking effect with the 2007-08 fiscal year required counties to transfer certain railroad properties into a countywide tax rate area from their existing tax rate area. Taxes on these properties are now distributed in a manner similar to other unitary properties, except that redevelopment agencies no longer share in the distribution. Because of this the Auditor-Controller has removed the corresponding valuations from the Agency's base year. With the 2007-08 fiscal year, the Project Area's base year valuation is reduced by $597,593, while the reduction in the 2007-08 roll valuation for utility properties is $1,448,461. The net loss to the Agency from the reassignment of railroad properties under AB 2670 is approximately $800,000 in valuation or $8,000 in tax increment. -36-