HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-92 - Restaurant Association BIDRESOLUTION NO. 2000- 92
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
BEACH APPROVING THE ANNUAL REPORT AND STATING ITS
INTENTION TO LEVY ASSESSMENTS FOR THE RESTAURANT
ASSOCIATION BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR JANUARY 1, 2001 TO DECEMBER 31, 2001.
WHEREAS, the Restaurant Association 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 2000, 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; and
WHEREAS, the Business Improvement District Advisory Board has not
recommended the basis for levying assessment be modified.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach
resolves as follows:
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 2001, the area boundaries, and the annual assessment within the District.
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Section 2: The City Council hereby declares it intention to renew the
Business Improvement District for the fiscal year January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001
pursuant to the Act.
Section 3: The membership of the District will remain the same and any
restaurant within the corporate limits of the City of Newport Beach shall be included
within the District.
Section 4: The City Council hereby levies and imposes and orders the
collection of a benefit assessment upon persons conducting business in the District. Such
benefit assessment shall be as follows:
For establishments with less than eleven (11) employees, the assessment
shall be a flat $50.00. For establishments with greater than ten (10) employees, the
benefit assessment shall be equal to the amount of the City's usual annual business license
tax as established pursuant to Chapter 5.08 of the Municipal Code
Section 5: The 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. The assessment for new businesses shall be
pro -rated according to the number of full months remaining in the District's fiscal year.
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: The improvements and activities to be funded by the benefit
assessments shall include only the following:
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1. Marketing, advertising and public relations.
2. Brochure development and distribution.
3. Promotion of public events.
4. The general promotion of restaurant trade activities.
5. Educational and training classes for members
6. Memberships in various organizations deemed to promote dining in Newport Beach
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Newport Beach shall conduct a public hearing on December 12, 2000 at 7:00 p.m., or as
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. 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.
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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 (949) 644 -3230.
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 14`x' day of November 2000.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } as.
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2000 -92 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by
the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 14ffi
day of November, 2000, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Glover, Adams, Ridgeway, Debay, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 15th day of November, 2000.
(Seal)
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California