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Home My WebLink About2018-28 - Declaring Its Intention to Renew the Corona Del Mar Business Improvement District and Levy Assessments for the Fiscal Year of July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019, And Fix the Time and Place of a Public HearingRESOLUTION NO. 2018-28 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO RENEW THE CORONA DEL MAR BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AND LEVY ASSESSMENTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF JULY 1, 2018 TO JUNE 30, 2019, AND FIX THE TIME AND PLACE OF A PUBLIC HEARING WHEREAS, the Corona del Mar Business Improvement District ("CdM BID") was established in 1997 pursuant to the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1989, California Streets and Highways Code, Sections 36500 etseq., ("1989 Law"), which requires an annual report to be filed and approved by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach ("City") for each fiscal year, WHEREAS, the advisory board, known as the CdM BID Board of Directors, has prepared an annual report for the 2017-2018 fiscal year which is on file in the City Clerk's Office ("Annual Report"), and WHEREAS, on June 12, 2018, the Annual Report was filed with and approved by the City Council. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as follows: Section 1: The City Council hereby declares its intention to renew the CdM BID for fiscal year July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019, pursuant to the 1989 Law. Section 2: The City Council hereby declares its intention to levy assessments for the CdM BID for the fiscal year July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019, pursuant to the 1989 Law. Such benefit assessment shall be as follows: A. Banks and financial institutions that are exempt from City business license regulations shall be assessed Five Hundred Dollars ($500) per year. B. Insurance agencies that are exempt from City business license regulations shall be assessed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250) per year. C. Persons operating one of the following types of businesses as an independent contractor in an establishment owned by another person shall be exempt from this assessment.- 1. ssessment: 1. Hair stylists 2. Nail technicians 3. Real estate agents. D. The assessment for all other businesses within the CdM BID shall be one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the annual business license tax as established pursuant to Newport Beach Municipal Code ("NBMC") Chapter 5.08. Resolution No. 2018-28 Page 2 of 3 Section 3: The penalty for delinquent payments shall be equal to that established for delinquent business license fees pursuant to NBMC Chapter 5.04, providing that the penalty to be added shall in no event exceed fifty percent (50%) of the assessment amount due. Section 4: The benefit assessments shall be collected by the City of Newport Beach, or its designee, in one annual installment. The assessment for new businesses shall be pro -rated according to the number of full months remaining in the CdM BID's fiscal year. Section 5: The improvements and activities to be funded by the benefit assessments shall include only the following: A. Marketing, advertising, and public relations,- B. elations; B. Public area improvements and maintenance programs; C. Promotion of public events that are to take place on or in any public places in the area; D. General promotion of retail trade activities; and E. Administration. The implementation of these actions is described in the Annual Report, which is on file with the City Clerk's Office located at 100 Civic Center Drive, Bay 2E, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Section 6: The location of the CdM BID will remain the same: Generally located on East Coast Highway from Hazel Drive to Avocado Avenue, as set forth with greater specificity in the boundary map attached hereto, and incorporated herein by reference. Section 7: The time and place for a public hearing on the CdM BID renewal is set for 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard on June 26, 2018, at the Council Chambers located at 100 Civic Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Section 8: During the public hearing, the City Council shall hear and consider all protests against the establishment area, or the furnishing of specified types of improvements or activities within the area. 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 the businesses within the CdM BID which pay fifty percent (50%) or more of the total assessments to be levied, no further proceedings to renew the CdM BID shall be taken for a period of one year from the date of the finding of a majority protest by the City Council. If the majority protest is only against the furnishing of a specific type or types of improvements or activity or benefit within the CdM BID, those types of improvements or activities or benefit zones shall be eliminated. Section 9: Further information regarding the proposed CdM BID renewal may be obtained at the City Manager's Office, 100 Civic Center Drive, Bay 2E, Newport Beach, CA 92660; 949-644-3031. Resolution No. 2018-28 Page 3 of 3 Section 10: The City Clerk is directed to provide notice of the public hearing in accordance with Streets and Highways Code Sections 36523 and 36541. Section 11: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are incorporated into the operative part of this resolution. Section 12: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional. Section 13: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly. Section 14: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the City Council and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution. ADOPTED this 12th day of June, 2018. ATTEST: Joq&— Leilani I. Brown City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: CITY ATT NEY'S OFFICE r� I Aaron &Aarp City Attorney Attachment: Boundary Map Ma shall "Duffy" Duffiel STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH } I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 2018-28 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 12th day of June, 2018; and the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Council Member Herdman, Council Member Kevin Muldoon, Council Member Diane Dixon, Council Member Scott Peotter, Council Member Brad Avery, Mayor Pro Tem Will O'Neill, Mayor Duffy Duffield NAYS: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 131h day of June, 2018. r � Leilani I. Brown City Clerk Newport Beach, California