06/04/2007: "CC Briefing Tuesday On Stormwater Appeal Procedures"

The County Council will receive a briefing Tuesday, (10 a.m. in the court house) from Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jon Cain, on Stormwater Appeals procedures. The briefing on how to go about hearing an appeal is presumably in response to an appeal that has been filed. The appeal by Gordon & Lori Petersen requests a “tax” refund on a stormwater fee that is showing up on some tax bills from the SJC Assessor’s office.

The Petersen’s had filed an appeal to Public Works (PW) to the fee, as required by the Stormwater Ordinance, but it was rejected by PW. The next option available to them was to file an appeal directly to the County Council. Their appeal will be heard by the Council later this month.

While all this is going on, the petition drive to get the funding source for the stormwater ordinance put on the ballot is still moving forward, as supporters work to obtain the required number of signatures to qualify as a ballot measure, which will require a vote of the people -as opposed to the past vote by the council, to approve the current stormwater funding amount and method of collection.