Ontario Ranch services CFD special taxes (police, fire, parks maintenance)

“This new development requires the City to provide additional public services and facilities. To finance these additional services and facilities, the City has formed Mello-Roos Community Facilities Districts ("CFDs") on each new project that develops within Ontario Ranch.”

“the City typically authorizes special taxes in the Ontario Ranch Services CFDs to pay for police protection services, fire protection and suppression services, ambulance and paramedic services, maintenance and lighting of parks, parkways, streets, roads, and open space, flood and storm protection services, and maintenance and operation of any real property or other tangible property with an estimated useful life of five or more years that is owned by the City for residents within a given CFD.”

“All new developments within Ontario Ranch are required to form a CFD that pays for public services.”

“The special taxes for the CFDs are collected via the annual secured property tax bills issued by San Bernardino County.”

County of San Bernardino (Auditor-Controller / secured property tax roll)

“These delinquencies shall be collected through San Bernardino County's collection process.”

“Exemptions from the special tax may be given to parcels which are publicly-owned, are held by property owners associations, are dedicated for use for a public purpose or are affected by public utility easements making impractical their utilization for other than the purposes set forth in the easement.”

“The special tax levy for a CFD commences once a building permit has been issued for new construction of a residential unit or a non-residential building in a CFD.”