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HomeMy WebLinkAbout96-103 - Marine Avenue Business Improvement District• RESOLUTION NO. 96-103 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO RENEW THE MARINE AVENUE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR OF JANUARY 1, 1997 TO DECEMBER 31,1997 AND FIXING THE TIME AND PLACE OF A PUBLIC HEARING. WHEREAS, the Marine Avenue Business Improvement District was established in 1996 pursuant to the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1989, California Streets and Highways Code, Section 36500 et seq., (hereinafter the "Act "), which requires an annual report to be filed and approved by the City Council for each fiscal year; and WHEREAS, the Advisory Board has prepared an Annual Report for Fiscal and Calendar Year 1997 which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk; and WHEREAS, the Act requires the City Council to declare its intention to levy and collect assessments within the Business Improvement District for the next fiscal year. follows: NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as Section 1: The Annual Report filed by the Advisory Board is hereby approved. The Annual Report contains a description of improvements and activities to be provided for 1997, the area boundaries, and the annual assessment within the District. Section 2: The City Council hereby declares it intention to renew the Business Improvement District for calendar and fiscal year 1997 pursuant to the Act. Section 3: The location of the District will remain the same: generally the 200 and 300 blocks of Marine Avenue as set forth with greater specificity in the map attached as Exhibit A and incorporated herein. Section 4: The City Council proposes to levy, impose and order the collection of • a benefit assessment upon persons conducting a business in the District. Such benefit assessments shall be equal to two hundred percent (200 %) of the City's usual annual business license tax base rate (i.e., excluding that portion based on number of employees) as established Resolution No. 96 -103 Marine Avenue Business Improvement District Resolution of Intention Page 1 Res. 96 -103 Section 5: The collection of benefit assessments shall be collected by the City in one annual installment, with collections for new businesses in the District on the day of the issuance of a business license by the City. Section 6: The penalty for delinquent payments shall be twenty five percent per •month, providing that the penalty to be added shall in no event exceed one hundred percent of the assessment amount due. Section 7: Individuals with more than one business entity within the assessment boundaries shall not be required to pay the Business Improvement District assessment more than once, but shall continue to pay required business license fees in accordance with Chapter 5.08 of the Municipal Code. Section 8: The improvements and activities to be funded by the benefit assessments shall include only the following: 1. Marketing, advertising and public relations. 2. Brochure development and distribution. 3. Promotion of public events which are to take place on or in any public places in the area. 4. Decoration of any public place in the area. 5. Public area maintenance activities. 6. The general promotion of retail trade activities. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Newport Beach shall conduct a public hearing on January 13, 1997 at 7:00 p.m., or soon thereafter as this matter may be heard, in the Council Chambers located at 3300 Newport Boulevard, Newport Beach, California at which time the Council will hear all interested persons for or against the establishment of the District, the extent of the District and the specific types of improvements or activities to be funded by the benefit assessment. Protests may be made orally or in writing, but if written, shall be filed with the City Clerk at or before the time fixed for the Hearing and contain sufficient documentation to verify business ownership and validate the particular protest. If written protests are received by the owners of businesses within the District which pay fifty percent or more of the total assessments to be levied, no further proceedings to renew the District shall be taken for a period of one year from the date of the finding of a majority protest by the City Council. to • Res. 96 -103 If the majority protest is only against the furnishing of a specific type or types of improvements or activity within the District, those types of improvements or activities shall be eliminated. Further information regarding the proposed Business Improvement District renewal may be obtained at the Newport Beach City Hall, 3300 Newport Boulevard, Newport Beach, California, 92658. Telephone (714) 644 -3225. The City Clerk shall cause this resolution of intention to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City at least seven days before the public hearing. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon adoption. Passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach at a regular meeting and thereon held on the 9th day of December 1996. Or" ATTEST: 'kiu i CITY CLERK ATTACHMENT: Exhibit A - Boundary Map C:1W IN...XBIDSWARINMCC- RESOI.DOC MAYOR ,