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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2003-59 - Restaurant Association BIDRESOLUTION NO. 2003- 59 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO RENEW THE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2004, AND FIX THE TIME AND PLACE OF A PUBLIC HEARING. 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 Year 2003 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. 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 2004, 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 the 2004 pursuant to the Act. Section 3: The location of the District will remain the same: any restaurant doing business within the boundaries of the City of Newport Beach is part of the District. Section 4: The City Council intends to levy and impose and order the collection of a benefit assessment upon persons conducting business in the District. Such benefit assessment shall be as follows: A. For establishments with less than eleven (11) employees, the assessment shall be a flat $50.00. B. For establishments with greater than ten (10) employees, the benefit assessment shall be equal to the City's usual annual business license tax as established pursuant to Chapter 5.08 of the Municipal Code. C. The assessment for all other businesses within the District shall be 100 percent of the 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: 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 9, 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 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 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 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 (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 and thereon held on the 12th day of November 2003. „ ; ATTEST: CITY CLERK STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE 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. 2003 -59 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 12th day of November, 2003, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: Heffernan, Rosansky, Ridgeway, Adams, Webb, Mayor Bromberg Noes: None Absent: Nichols Abstain: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said City this 13th day of November, 2003. (Seal) lvi City Clerk Newport Beach, California