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File #: 25-493    Version: 1 Name: Public Hearing for Hillside GHAD
Type: Staff Report Status: Agenda Ready
In control: City Council
Meeting Date: 11/17/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #: Reso 2025-002 GHAD
Title: Public Hearing for the proposed dissolution of the San Leandro Hillside Geologic Hazard Abatement District and Potential Action Upon a Resolution for the Approval of the Dissolution of the San Leandro Hillside Geologic Hazard Abatement District.
Attachments: 1. A - Reso Ordering Dissolution of GHAD, 2. B - Mailing List for Public Hearing Notice Letters, 3. C - Sample Ballot with Instructions_Hillside GHAD, 4. D - Public Hearing Notice Letter to Property Owners, 5. E - Passed Reso GHAD 2025-001, 6. F - District Map, 7. G - Plan of Control, 8. H - Copy of newspaper published Public Hearing Notice, 9. GHAD Public Hearing Presentation
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Public Hearing for the proposed dissolution of the San Leandro Hillside Geologic Hazard Abatement District and Potential Action Upon a Resolution for the Approval of the Dissolution of the San Leandro Hillside Geologic Hazard Abatement District.

Staffreport

SUMMARY

On October 6, 2025, the GHAD Board initiated proceedings for the dissolution of the San Leandro Hillside Geologic Hazard Abatement District (GHAD) and set a Public Hearing for November 17, 2025.

During the Public Hearing, property owners will have an opportunity to comment on the proposed dissolution and submit their ballots. Ballots will be counted and the results announced. If not more than 50% of the property owners - weighted by assessed real property valuation - object to the dissolution, the GHAD Board may proceed with the dissolution proceedings. If the GHAD Board votes to dissolve the GHAD, the decision must be confirmed by a written approval of more than 50% of the property owners - weighted by assessed property valuation - within 90 days of the date of the public hearing.

If the GHAD is dissolved, responsibility for ongoing and future slope repairs and maintenance within the GHAD would transfer to the individual property owners. If the GHAD is not dissolved, it cannot continue to operate without funding; however, the GHAD Board could consider a property assessment to restore necessary GHAD functions and responsibilities.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Staff, acting as an agent for the GHAD, recommend that the GHAD Board conduct the Public Hearing, receive public comments, and tabulate ballots regarding the proposed dissolution. Following all ballot procedures and guidelines, the GHAD Board will determine whether to proceed with the GHAD dissolution.
BACKGROUND

The San Leandro Hillside Geologic Hazard Abatement District (GHAD) was established on November 8, 2000, to administer repairs to a landslide resulting from the 1998 El Ni?o storm and to conduct ongoing maintenance and monitoring fo...

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