Resolution 38-25 CREATION OF SLID FORMATION AVALON JACKRABBIT FINAL SS.pdf

City of Buckeye — Regular Council Meeting (2025-07-01)

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WHEN RECORDED RETURN TO:  
 
City of Buckeye 
ATTN: Lucinda J. Aja, City Clerk 
530 East Monroe Avenue  
Buckeye, Arizona 85326  
 
RESOLUTION NO. 38-25 
 
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 
BUCKEYE, ARIZONA, ORDERING THE WORK AS DESCRIBED IN 
RESOLUTION NO. 37-25 AND FORMING CITY OF BUCKEYE STREET 
LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. SLID-2025-006; AND ORDERING 
THE RECORDING AND FILING OF THIS RESOLUTION.  
 
WHEREAS, on July 1, 2025, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona 
(the “City”) passed and adopted Resolution No. 37-25 (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-2025-006 (the “District”), within the area known 
as Avalon Jackrabbit, 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-2025-006 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

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of a parcel’s inclusion within, or exclusion from, the District, subject to the restrictions of Section 
2 of this Resolution.  
 
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 2025 and for the City’s 2025-
2026 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, 2025.

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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona 
on the 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 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. 38-25 was duly passed by the Mayor 
and Council of the City of Buckeye, Arizona, at a regular meeting held on July 1, 2025, and the 
vote was  ___ ayes, ____ nays, ____  abstained 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 Parcel Numbers and Owners’ Names 
(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