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RESOLUTION 91-028 347 those items listed as facilities and services, respectively, on Exhibit A attached to the Resolution of Intention. 7. Except to the extent that funds are otherwise available to the District to pay for the Facilities, the Services and/or the principal and interest as it becomes due on bonds of the District issued to finance the Facilities, a special tax sufficient to pay the costs thereof, secured by a continuing lien against all non-exempt real property in the District, is intended to be levied annually within the District, and collected in the same manner as ordinary ad valorem property taxes. The proposed rate and method of apportionment of the special tax among the parcels of real property within the District, in sufficient detail to allow each landowner within the proposed District to estimate the probable maximum amount such owner will have to pay, are described in Exhibit B attached to the Resolution of Intention. The City Council expressly acknowledges that the special taxes to be levied in the District are intended to supplant and supercede the Fire Facilities Fee imposed under Section 8-46 of the Santa Aha Municipal Code. Accordingly, upon the approval of the levy of the special taxes and the establishment of the appropriations limit for the District (referenced in paragraph 10 below) by the requisite qualified electors of the District, and the levy of the special taxes in the District by the City Council in accordance with the approved rate and method of apportionment for the District, the appropriate officers of the City are hereby directed to (a) refund to any owner of a parcel within the District any Fire Facilities Fees paid by such owner under Section 8-46 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, said refunds to occur on or about the date on which the City issues bonds payable from the proceeds of the special taxes, and (b) relieve all owners of parcels within the District, including the owners of any parcels later annexed to the District, of any obligation to pay such Fire Facilities Fees in the future. 8. The Executive Director of Finance and Management Services of the City of Santa Ana, 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, California 92702, telephone number (714) 647-5400, is the officer for the City which will be responsible for preparing annually a current roll of special tax levy obligations by assessor's parcel number and which will be responsible for estimating future special tax levies pursuant to Section 20-55 of the Act. 9. Upon recordation of a notice of special tax lien pursuant to Section 3114.5 of the California Streets and Highways Code, a continuing hen to secure each levy of the special tax shall attach to all nonexempt real property in the District and this lien shall continue in force and effect until the special tax obligation is prepaid and permanently satisfied and the lien canceled in accordance with law or until collection of the tax by the City ceases. 10. In accordance with Section 20-32 of the Act, the annual appropriations limit, as defined by subdivision (h) of Section 8 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution, of the District is hereby preliminarily established at $4,000,000 and said appropriations limit shall be submitted to the voters of the District as hereafter provided. The proposition establishing said annual appropriations limit shall become effective if approved by the qualified electors voting thereon and shall be adjusted in accordance with the applicable previsions of Section 20-32 of the Act. 11. Pursuant to the provisions of the Act, the proposition of the levy of the special tax and the proposition of the establishment of the appropriations limit specified above -3-