Resolution 37-25 Intention of SLID Formation - Avalon Jackrabbit FINAL V2 SS.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. 37-25 
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY 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-
006”; 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-2025-006 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- 
2025-006, 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 City Council of the City.

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“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-2025-006”. 
 
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

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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, 2025. 
 
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona, 
this 1st day of July, 2025. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
___________________________________ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Eric W. Orsborn, Mayor 
ATTEST: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
__________________________________  
 
Lucinda J. Aja, City Clerk 
 
 
 
 
APPROVED AS TO FORM: 
 
__________________________________ 
K. Scott McCoy, City Attorney 
 
 
Attachments: 
Exhibit A – Legal Description 
Exhibit B – Assessor’s Parcel Number and Owner’s Name  
Exhibit C – Boundary Map

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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. 37-25 was duly passed by the Mayor 
and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona, at a City Council meeting held on July 1, 2025 and 
the vote was ___ aye's, ___ nay's, ___ recused, and ____ were absent and that the Mayor and 
___ Council Members were present thereat. 
DATED: July 1, 2025. 
__________________________________ 
Lucinda J. Aja, City Clerk

EXHIBIT A 
 
Legal Description 
 
(consisting of 1 page)

Any modification to or omission from this description completely  
absolves the surveyor from any liability for this description. 
 
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EXHIBIT A 
CITY OF BUCKEYE STREET LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT 
SLID-2025-006 
AVALON JACKRABBIT 
LEGAL DESCRIPTION 
 
 
All of “Jackrabbit Crossing”, according to Book 998, Page 11, Maricopa County Records, also being a 
portion of land situated in the Southeast of Section 5, Township 1 North, Range 2 West of the Gila 
and Salt River Base and Meridian, Maricopa County, Arizona, being more particularly described as 
follows: 
 
BEGINNING at a Found Brass Cap in Handhole at the Southeast corner of said Section 5, from 
which a Found Brass Cap in Handhole at the East Quarter corner of said Section 5 bears North 00 
Degrees 22 Minutes 05 Seconds East, a distance of 2645.02 feet;  
 
Thence along the perimeter of the aforementioned “Jackrabbit Crossing”, the following four courses: 
 
North 89 degrees 37 minutes 59 seconds West, along the South line of the Southeast Quarter of said 
Section 5, a distance of 601.25 feet; 
 
Thence North 08 degrees 03 minutes 04 seconds East, a distance of 680.85 feet; 
 
Thence South 89 degrees 38 minutes 08 seconds East, a distance of 510.22 feet, to the East line of 
the Southeast Quarter of said Section 5; 
 
Thence South 00 degrees 22 minutes 05 seconds West, along said East line, a distance of 674.76 
feet, to the POINT OF BEGINNING. 
 
Encompassing 374,976 square feet, or 8.608 acres, more or less.

EXHIBIT B 
 
Assessor’s Parcel Number and Owner’s Name 
 
(consisting of 1 page)

EXHIBIT B
INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING SINCE 1987

EXHIBIT C 
 
Boundary Map 
 
(consisting of 1 page)

JACKRABBIT TRAIL
BLUE HORIZONS PARKWAY NORTH
EXHIBIT C
INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING SINCE 1987
            SLID-2025-006