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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2003-36 - Corona del Mar Business Improvement DistrictRESOLUTION NO. 2003- 36 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, 2003 TO AUGUST 31, 2004. 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 2002 -2003 fiscal year which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk; and 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 the fiscal year September 1, 2003 to August 31, 2004 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. Hairstylists 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 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, advertising, and special events 2. Physical improvements & maintenance 3. Communications and Outreach Program 4. Representation of area business interests in governmental affairs 5. 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 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Newport Beach shall conduct a public hearing on August 12, 2003 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, 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 22nd day of July 2003. ATTEST: CITY CLERK ATTACHMENT: Exhibit A (Boundary Map) CXH..IS(T A City of Newport Beach Corona del Mar Business Improvement District 4 Fac Fir Ocee.^ G� q i Nfl, Business Improvemen± Disfnc' 6cundary 1 Tr,� STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss. CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH 1, 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. 2003 -36 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 22nd day of July, 2003, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: Heffernan, Adams, Webb, Nichols, Mayor Bromberg Noes: :done Absent: Ridgeway, Proctor Abstain: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 23rd day of July, 2003. (Seal) City Clerk Newport Beach, California