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RESOLUTION ADOPTING PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ROLL PROVIDING FOR ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS AGAINST REAL PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF A SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT KNOWN AS MIAMI INTERNATIONAL TRADEPORT MULTIPURPOSE MAINTENANCE AND STREET LIGHTING SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 18 OF THE CODE OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA AND ORDINANCE NO.

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WHEREAS, pursuant to petition, notice and public hearing, the Board of County Commissioners by Ordinance No. , adopted on November 3, 2011, created and established a special taxing district in Miami-Dade County, Florida, known and designated as the MIAMI INTERNATIONAL TRADEPORT MULTIPURPOSE MAINTENANCE AND STREET LIGHTING SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 18 of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, enacted under and pursuant to the provisions of Section 1.01(A)(11) of the Home Rule Charter of Miami-Dade County, Florida; and
WHEREAS, the streetlights in the special taxing district will be installed and put into operation; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. , the Board of County Commissioners determined that special assessments in this special taxing district for furnishing street lighting facilities and services should be levied on a per front footage basis in accordance with Ordinance No. ; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. , and Section 1814(4) of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the County Manager caused a preliminary assessment roll to be prepared and filed with the Clerk of the County Commission and pursuant to notice published, posted and mailed to all property owners within the special taxing district, the County Commission held a public hearing on this date upon the preliminary assessment roll submitted by the County Manager, and all interested persons were afforded the opportunity to present their objections, if any, with respect to their assessments on such assessment roll; and
WHEREAS, after due consideration, the County Commission found and determined that the assessments shown on the preliminary assessment roll were generally in direct proportion to the special benefits accruing to the respective parcels of real property appearing on said assessment roll; and
WHEREAS, each property owner was notified that the special assessments, when finally approved and confirmed pursuant to Section 1814(6) of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida, will be placed on the November 2012, and subsequent real property tax bills and that, if these special assessments are not paid when due, the properties on which the special assessments are levied will be respectively subject to the same collection procedures as for ad valorem taxes, including possible loss of title,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that:
Section 1. That the said preliminary assessment roll (a copy of which is made a part hereof by reference) is approved, adopted and confirmed pursuant to Section 1814(6) of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Section 2. The Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners is directed to deliver to the Finance Director, on or before December 2, 2011, a copy of the assessment roll, and to cause a duly certified copy of this resolution, together with the assessment roll, to be filed and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Section 3. All assessments made upon said assessment roll shall constitute a special assessment lien upon the real property so assessed from the date of the confirmation of such assessments, in accordance with the provisions of Section 1814(8) of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Section 4. All assessments shall be payable in accordance with Section 1814(7) of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida. As authorized by Section 197.363, Florida Statutes, all special assessments levied and imposed under the provisions of Ordinance No. , and this Resolution, shall be collected, subject to the provisions of Chapter 197, Florida Statutes, in the same manner and at the same time as ad valorem taxes. Unless paid when due, such assessments shall be deemed delinquent and payment thereof may be enforced by means of the procedures provided by the provisions of Chapter 197, Florida Statutes, and/or Section 1814(8) of the Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida.