Resolution 19-26 SLID Creation - Miller Meadows.pdf
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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. 19-26
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BUCKEYE,
ARIZONA, ORDERING THE WORK AS DESCRIBED IN RESOLUTION NO. 18-
26 AND FORMING CITY OF BUCKEYE STREET LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT NO. SLID-2025-013; AND ORDERING THE RECORDING AND
FILING OF THIS RESOLUTION.
WHEREAS, on February 3, 2026, the Mayor and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona
(the “City”) passed and adopted Resolution No. 18-26 (the “Resolution of Intention”), which
Resolution of Intention declared the Mayor and Council’s intention to form the City of Buckeye
Street Lighting Improvement District No. SLID-2025-013 (the “District”), solely for the purpose of
purchasing energy for lighting of the public streets within and adjacent to the District; and
WHEREAS, a petition (the “Petition”) for the formation of the District was presented to
the Mayor and Council, which Petition purported to be signed by all the non-public real property
owners in the proposed District, exclusive of mortgagees and other lienholders; and,
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council found that the Petition was signed by all such
owners and have verified such finding of such fact; and,
WHEREAS, in the Petition the signer waived all protests against the proposed Work (as
defined in the Resolution of Intention), all objections to the extent of the District, all publication,
posting and mailing of the Resolution of Intention, and the passage of time between adoption of
the Resolution of Intention and this Resolution; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 48-616 and -617, the Mayor and Council hereby find
and determine that they have jurisdiction to order the Work of purchasing energy for lighting of
public streets and parks within the District and hereby order the formation of the District
described in the Resolution of Intention.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona, as follows:
Section 1.
Ordering the Work and District Formation. All protests against the Work,
or the formation of the District, and all objections to the extent of the District being waived by the
owners of all non-public real property within the District, exclusive of mortgagees and
lienholders, pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 48-616 and -617, the Work, as described in the Resolution of
Intention, is hereby ordered and the formation of the City of Buckeye Street Lighting
Improvement District No. SLID-2025-013 is hereby ordered. The District shall encompass the
property described on Exhibits A, B, and C, attached hereto and incorporated by reference
herein. 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
2 of this Resolution.
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Section 2.
Excluded Property. No publicly owned land or property owned by a
homeowners’ association will be liable to pay any portion of the District’s costs and expenses.
This exclusion shall apply to all public streets, avenues, alleys, or public easements within the
District that may hereafter be dedicated to public use.
Section 3.
Annual Tax or Annual Assessment. Subject to the restrictions of Section 2
of this Resolution, the City shall annually, commencing in tax year 2026 and for the City’s 2026-
2027 fiscal year, make annual statements and estimates of the expenses of the District and
shall submit the same to the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County for the levy and
collection of ad valorem taxes upon the assessed value of all taxable property, real and
personal, in the District or by equal apportionment of taxes based on the number and
classification of properties within the District, and shall publish notice of the statements and
estimates, hold hearings on them and adopt them at the times and in the manner provided for
incorporated cities and cities’ statements and estimates by applicable portions of Title 42,
Chapter 17, Article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, and shall annually set, fix and cause to be
levied and assessed the amount to be raised by ad valorem taxes upon all of the taxable
property of the District or by an equal annual charge and shall cause to be collected, as county
taxes are collected, the amounts shown by the statements and estimates so adopted by the
Mayor and Council. As provided in A.R.S. § 48-616, all statutes providing for the levy and
collection of general county taxes, including collection of delinquent taxes and sale of property
for nonpayment of taxes, are applicable to the District taxes as provided to be levied by this
section.
Section 4.
Recording and Filing. The City Clerk is ordered and directed to cause a
certified copy of this Resolution to be recorded in the office of the Maricopa County Recorder.
The City Clerk is further ordered and directed to file certified copies of this Resolution with the
Arizona Department of Revenue (the “Department”) and the Maricopa County Assessor,
pursuant to A.R.S. § 42-17257, together with all other information prescribed by the Director of
the Department relating to the boundaries of newly created taxing jurisdictions.
Section 5.
Extension for Filing. If either the formation of the District occurs after
November 1 of the year preceding the year in which initial taxes are to be levied, or this
Resolution is not filed with both the Department and the Maricopa County Assessor prior to such
November 1, 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 Department extend
the deadline prescribed by A.R.S. § 42-17257 to December 20, 2026.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona on
the 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 Numbers and Owners’ Names
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. 19-26 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
(consisting of 1 page)
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 Parcel Numbers and Owners’ Names
(consisting of 1 page)
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
(consisting of 1 page)
MILLER ROAD
MARICOPA ROAD
504-40-020D
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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