HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-41 - Corona del Mar BID RenewalRESOLUTION NO. 2005-41
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
BEACH STATING ITS INTENTION TO LEVY ASSESSMENTS FOR THE
CORONA DEL MAR BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2005 TO JUNE 30, 2006.
WHEREAS, the Corona del Mar 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 the 2004-
2005 fiscal year which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk, and
WHEREAS, the Annual Report for the 2004 -2005 fiscal year was 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 the intention to levy assessments
for the Corona del Mar Business Improvement District for an abbreviated fiscal
year September 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006 pursuant to the Act. Such benefit
assessment shall be as follows:
A. Banks and financial institutions that are exempt from City business license
regulations shall be assessed $500 per year;
B. Insurance agencies that are exempt from City business license regulations
shall be assessed $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. Hair stylists
2. Nail technicians
3. Real estate agents
D. The assessment for all other businesses within the District shall be 150
percent of the annual business license tax as established pursuant to Chapter
5.08 of the Municipal Code.
Section 2: The penalty for delinquent payments shall be twenty -five percent
(25 %) per month, providing that the penalty to be added shall in no event exceed
one hundred percent of the assessment amount due.
Section 3: The City shall collect benefit assessments 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 4: The improvements and activities to be funded by the benefit
assessments shall include only the following:
1. Marketing and advertising
2. Physical Improvements
3. Maintenance Programs
4. Administration
Section 5: The location of the District will remain the same: generally located on
East Coast Highway from Hazel Drive to Avocado Avenue as set forth with
greater specificity in the map attached as Exhibit A.
Section 6. The City Council hereby declares the intention to discuss the granting
of proper authority for the Corona del Mar Business Improvement District to
adopt Bylaws for the purposes of general operations, consistent with State law
and resolutions adopted by the City Council.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Newport Beach
shall conduct a public hearing on August 23, 2005 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 renewal 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,
protests 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 that 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 or benefit within the District, those types
of improvements or activities or benefit zones 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 (949) 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
held on the 9th day of August 2005.
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EXHIBIT A
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
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. 2005 -41 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 9th
day of August 2005, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Selich, Rosansky, Webb, Ridgeway, Daigle, Nichols, Mayor Heffernan
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 10th day of August 2005.
(Seal)
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California