What Is A Special Service Area Augusta Village

What is an SSA?

A Special Service Area (SSA) is a funding mechanism that can be used to support a broad range of special or additional services and/or physical improvements in a defined geographic area within a municipality. This type of district allows local governments to establish such areas without incurring debt or levying a tax on the entire municipality. In short, an SSA allows local governments to tax for and deliver services to express geographic areas within their jurisdictions.

What does an SSA do?

The function of an SSA depends on what type of SSA it is. There are 3 types in the Village.

Maintenance SSA

The almost common SSA is for maintenance of some shared property within a subdivision or other local surface area that directly benefits that area. A common example is an SSA for maintenance of a stormwater detention swimming; the pond needs to exist treated for algae, mowed, periodically burned, etc.

Redundancy SSA

A back-up SSA is similar to a maintenance SSA, but the belongings owners or an HOA have the principal maintenance responsibleness. The Village only completes the maintenance work equally a redundancy in an emergency. For example, a beaver damn might prohibit a stormwater detention pond from working properly during a heavy rainfall, so the Village could pay to accept that damn removed to avoid flooding. These SSAs are more often than not simply taxed by the Village in the year(due south) following an emergency expenditure and so the Village tin can compensate the money information technology spent from a Village-wide fund.

Infrastructure SSA

An infrastructure SSA is an alternative funding mechanism used to help developers finance the construction of certain public improvements required to serve the properties within the development over a longer period of time. The taxation nerveless pays the interest and principle on the bonds and related authoritative expenses of the SSA.

Current SSAs in Hampshire

The current SSAs in Hampshire are listed below and pictured in the map to the right, updated in Dec each year (clickable).

Please note that just because an SSA exists does not mean it is being used. Taxes for SSAs are determined at the cease of each calendar year based on the SSAs' electric current fund balances and proposed piece of work to exist done in them. Redundancy SSAs are by and large not taxed unless emergency work has been done and the Village needs to recoup that money spent from other Village funds.

SSA #	Name	Blazon
two	Old Manufacturing plant Manor	Maintenance
3	Panama	Maintenance
4	Sterling Oaks	Maintenance*
6	Hampshire Prairie	Maintenance
7	Hampshire Hills	Maintenance
viii	Hampshire Fields	Maintenance
ten	White Oak Ponds	Maintenance
11	Hampshire Highlands	Maintenance
12	Hampshire Meadows	Maintenance
13	Tuscany Wood	Infrastructure
14	Lakewood Crossings	Infrastructure
xv	Lakewood Crossings	Dorsum-Up
xx	Prairie Ridge	Maintenance*
21	Oakstead	Maintenance*
22	Tamms Farm	Maintenance*
23	Tuscany Forest	Maintenance
25	Hampshire Woods	Back-Up
26	Loves/Metrix	Back-Up*
27	Hampshire Corporate Middle	Back-Up*
28	Stanley Storage Facility	Back-up