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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County officials announced Friday the Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved the County of Fresno and the City of Fresno memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which volition let the region and the metropolis to enactment together.
The statement was approved successful a four-to-one ballot connected Friday, aft expiring connected Aug. 29, 2020. According to officials, the enactment reflects some parties' committedness to addressing backing for captious services, urban-centered growth, predictability successful the annexation process and to stimulate economical maturation and development.
Some of the cardinal provisions of the MOU include:
- An summation successful the county's stock of spot taxes for each substantially developed parcels wrong the city's Sphere of Influence (County: 70%/City: 30%)
- It begins to code the city's oversight of the hundreds of shared roadworthy segments and intersections wrong Fresno's Sphere of Influence.
- If adopted, the MOU requires the metropolis to cod County Capital Improvement Fees.
“The County and the City are amended erstwhile we enactment unneurotic and this statement volition beforehand much practice for the payment of our County," said District 1 Supervisor Brian Pacheco.
Officials adhd the statement volition person nary interaction connected taxation sharing connected parcels already annexed successful the metropolis anterior to the agreement, and it volition lone impact aboriginal annexations.
The word of the MOU is 10 years from the day of last execution with an automatic five-year hold unless either enactment provides written announcement wrong the specified timeframe, anterior to the expiration of the MOU, of its tendency not to extend, per region officials.
