SLID Intention of Formation Resolution No. 18-26 Miller Meadows with Exhibits.pdf

City of Buckeye — Regular Council Meeting (2026-02-03)

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WHEN RECORDED, RETURN TO:

City of Buckeye
ATTN: City Clerk, Lucinda J. Aja
530 East Monroe Avenue
Buckeye, Arizona 85326

RESOLUTION NO. 18-26
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BUCKEYE,
ARIZONA, ACCEPTING A PETITION FOR FORMATION OF A STREET
LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT; DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO FORM
A STREET LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT; DESIGNATING SUCH
DISTRICT AS THE “CITY OF BUCKEYE STREET LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT NO. SLID-2025-013”; PROVIDING FOR THE ANNUAL LEVY OF
TAXES OR ASSESSMENTS EQUALLY APPORTIONED UPON ALL OF THE
NON-PUBLIC PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE DISTRICT TO PURCHASE
ENERGY FOR THE LIGHTING OF PUBLIC STREETS AND PARKS WITHIN
AND ADJACENT TO THE DISTRICT; AND ORDERING THE RECORDING AND
FILING OF THIS RESOLUTION.

BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona, as follows:

Section 1.
Acceptance and Findings. A Petition for the formation of the City of
Buckeye Street Lighting Improvement District No. SLID-2025-013 to purchase (and not
generate) energy for street and public park lighting within the District and streets adjacent
thereto has been filed with the Clerk and presented to the Governing Body of the City. The
Petition is accepted. The Petition purports to be signed by all of the non-public real property
owners in the proposed District, exclusive of mortgagees and other lienholders. After verification
of such ownership, the Governing Body finds that the Petition was signed by all of the real
property owners in the proposed District, exclusive of mortgagees and other lienholders or the
owners of any Public Property.

Section 2.
Definitions. In this Resolution, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:

“APS” shall mean the Arizona Public Service Company.

“City” shall mean the City of Buckeye, Arizona.

“Clerk” shall mean the Clerk of the City, located at 530 East Monroe Avenue, Buckeye,
Arizona 85326.

“Director” shall mean the Director of the Arizona Department of Revenue.

“District” shall mean the City of Buckeye Street Lighting Improvement District No. SLID-
2025-013, as described by the legal description, Assessor’s parcel number, and map in
Exhibits A, B and C attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein.

“Governing Body” shall mean the Mayor and Council of the City.

“Incidental Expenses” shall mean the costs of posting, publication, mailing, recording,
engineering and legal fees with respect to the formation of the District and the annual
levy of taxes.

“Petition” shall mean the Petition, Waiver, and Consent to Formation of a Street Lighting
Improvement District by the City of Buckeye, requesting formation of the District, on file
in the Clerk’s office.

“Public Property” shall mean any lot or parcel belonging to the United States; the state of
Arizona (the “State”); any county, city, town, school district or political subdivision; or any
institution of the State or county that is physically located within the District, including
without limitation any public street, avenue, alley or public easement located within the
District hereinafter dedicated to public use.

“Street Lighting System” shall mean all publicly owned street and traffic lights and all
wire, apparatus and other facilities now in place or hereafter constructed or acquired for
the lighting of public streets and parks within the District and on streets adjacent to the
District.

“Work” shall mean the purchasing of energy for the operation of the Street Lighting
System.

Section 3.
Declaration of Intention to Order Formation of the District. The public
interest and convenience require, and it is the intention of the Governing Body to order, the
Work through formation of the District pursuant to A.R.S. Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 2. The
District’s sole purpose shall be the purchase, not generation, of energy to operate the Street
Lighting System, including as it is hereafter modified or enlarged. The District shall encompass
the property described on Exhibits A, B, and C, attached hereto. The Assessor’s parcel
number(s) shown on Exhibit B is for convenience only. If either Exhibit A or Exhibit B or both
conflict with Exhibit C, Exhibit C shall govern and be determinative of a parcel’s inclusion within,
or exclusion from, the District, subject to the restrictions of Section 5 of this Resolution. For
purposes of this Resolution and of all resolutions, ordinances and notices pertaining hereto, the
District shall be known as and is hereby designated as “City of Buckeye Street Lighting
Improvement District No. SLID-2025-013”.

Section 4.
Statutory Authority; Payment of Incidental Expenses. All proceedings
pertaining to the District shall be done under and as authorized by A.R.S. Title 48, Chapter 4,
Article 2, and all amendments thereto including, without limitation, A.R.S. §§ 48-616 and -617.
All Incidental Expenses shall become the obligation of the District.

Section 5.
Excluded Property. No Public Property or property owned by a
homeowners’ association will be liable to pay any portion of the District’s costs and expenses.
Additionally, any public streets, avenues, alleys, or public easements hereafter dedicated to
public use shall become exempt after such dedication.

Section 6.
Protests and Objections to Extent of District. In the Petition, the signer
has made written consents and waivers pertaining to the ordering of the Work and to the
formation of the District and has specifically waived all protests against formation of, and
objections to, the extent of the District. City staff has verified that all non-public real property
owners within the District have signed the Petition, and the Governing Body finds as a fact that

all non-public property owners within the District have signed such Petition. Therefore, pursuant
to A.R.S. § 48-617(A), no publication, mailing or posting of any notice pertaining to formation of
the District will be made.

Section 7.
Engineer’s Estimate, Plans and Specifications. As financing for the
acquisition and construction of the initial Street Lighting System has been, or will be, provided,
the District’s sole purpose will be to purchase, and not generate, energy to operate the Street
Lighting System. No engineer’s estimate, plans, or specifications have been filed with the Clerk.
In the Petition, all owners of land within the District specifically waived the filing of an engineer’s
estimate, plans, or specifications.

Section 8.
Determination of Type of Lighting and Consideration of the Rate to be
Paid. The type of lighting shall be the type now in place within the District, to be operated nightly
from dusk to dawn, or such other lighting facilities as may be acquired in the future by the City
or some other entity for use within the District. The District’s costs and expenses of purchasing
energy for the operation of the Street Lighting System are subject to change due to inflation,
new construction, new technology, updated APS rate schedules as approved by the Arizona
Corporation Commission, updated APS or City specifications as approved by the City Engineer,
or acquisition of additional portions of the Street Lighting System.

Section 9.
Recordation. A certified copy of this Resolution shall be recorded in the
office of the Maricopa County Recorder within ten (10) days of its adoption to give notice of
formation of the District, as required by A.R.S. § 48-574(M).

Section 10.
Extension for Filing. If either the formation of the District occurs after
November 1 of the year preceding the year in which initial assessments are to be levied, or the
resolution ordering the Work is not filed with both the Arizona Department of Revenue and the
Maricopa County Assessor prior to such deadline, the Mayor and Council hereby request,
subject to the November 30 deadline for such request as provided in A.R.S. § 42-17257(B), that
the Director of the Arizona Department of Revenue extend the deadline prescribed by A.R.S. §
42-17257 to December 20, 2026.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona,
this 3rd day of February, 2026.

___________________________________

Eric W. Orsborn, Mayor

ATTEST:

__________________________________

Lucinda J. Aja, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

__________________________________
Tosca Henry, City Attorney

Attachments:
Exhibit A – Legal Description
Exhibit B – Assessor’s Parcel Number and Owner’s Name
Exhibit C – Boundary Map

CERTIFICATION

I, Lucinda J. Aja, the duly appointed and acting Clerk of the City of Buckeye, Arizona, do
hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 18-26 was duly passed by the Mayor
and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona, at a City Council meeting held on February 3, 2026
and the vote was ___ ayes, ___ nays, ___ recused, and
were absent and that the Mayor
and ___ Council Members were present thereat.
DATED: February 3, 2026.
__________________________________
Lucinda J. Aja, City Clerk

EXHIBIT A

Legal Description

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Exhibit A – Legal Description
Miller Meadows
City of Buckeye Street Lighting Improvement District
SLID 2025-013

A portion of the Northeast quarter of Section 31 Township 1 North, Range 3 West of the Gila and Salt
River Base and Meridian, Maricopa County, Arizona, being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the intersection of the monument line of Miller Road and the centerline of Maricopa
Road, according to the Map of Dedication, recorded in Book 604, Page 20 Maricopa County Records
(MCR), from which a found Maricopa County brass cap in handhole at Northeast corner of said Section
31 bears North 00 degrees 23 minutes 47 seconds, a distance of 2632.02 feet;
THENCE South 89 degrees 34 minutes 54 seconds West, along said centerline of Maricopa Road, a
distance of 270.79 feet to the beginning of a tangent curve to the right;
THENCE Northwesterly, along said curve to the right, through a central angle of 15 degrees 17 minutes
58 seconds, a radius of 500.00 feet, an arc length of 133.51 feet, and whose long chord bears North 82
degrees 46 minutes 07 seconds West, a distance of 133.12 feet to a tangent line;
THENCE North 75 degrees 07 minutes 08 seconds West, a distance of 132.54 feet to the beginning of a
tangent curve to the left;
THENCE Northwesterly, along said curve to the left, through a central angle of 11 degrees 57 minutes 16
seconds, a radius of 500.00 feet, an arc length of 104.32 feet and whose long chord bears North 81
degrees 05 minutes 46 seconds West for, a distance of 104.13 feet to a point of intersection with a non-
tangent line;
THENCE leaving said centerline of Maricopa Road, North 00 degrees 02 minutes 41 seconds East, a
distance of 644.38 feet;
THENCE North 89 degrees 38 minutes 05 seconds East, a distance of 34.67 feet;
THENCE North 86 degrees 40 minutes 58 seconds East, a distance of 58.21 feet;
THENCE North 89 degrees 54 minutes 19 seconds East, a distance of 535.59 feet to said monument line
of Miller Road;
THENCE South 00 degrees 23 minutes 47 seconds East, along said monument line of Miller Road, a
distance of 713.81 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
Containing 439,650 square feet or 10.093 acres, more or less.
Subject to existing right-of-way and easements.

01/13/26

EXHIBIT B

Assessor’s Parcel Number and Owner’s Name

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PH: (480) 406-3648
EMAIL: rob@syn-geo.com
SYNERGY GEOMATICS
2125 E. 5th STREET, #101
TEMPE, AZ 85281
Exhibit B
Miller Meadows
City of Buckeye Street Lighting Improvement District
SLID 2025-013
Assessor Parcel Numbers
ASSESSOR PARCEL NO.
OWNER

EXHIBIT C

Boundary Map

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MILLER ROAD
MARICOPA ROAD
504-40-020D
Δ
Δ
504-40-025L
504-47-004Y
PH: (480) 406-3648
EMAIL: rob@syn-geo.com
SYNERGY GEOMATICS
2125 E. 5th STREET, #101
TEMPE, AZ 85281
Exhibit C
Miller Meadows
City of Buckeye Street Lighting Improvement District
SLID 2025-013
Boundary Map