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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-49 - Marine Ave. BID for FY 11-12 and Fix Time and Place of Public HrgRESOLUTION NO. 2011 -49 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO RENEW THE MARINE AVENUE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF JULY 1, 2011 TO JUNE 30, 2012, AND FIX THE TIME AND PLACE OF A PUBLIC HEARING. WHEREAS, the Marine Avenue 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 2010 -2011 fiscal year which is on file in the Office of the City Clerk; and WHEREAS, on June 14, 2011, the Marine Avenue Business Improvement District annual report was filed 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 Marine Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) for fiscal year 2011- 2012 pursuant to the Act. Section 2: The City Council hereby declares the intention to levy assessments for the BID for fiscal year July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 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: Marine Avenue Business Improvement District 1. Hair stylists 2. Nail technicians 3. Real estate agents D. The assessment for all other businesses within the BID shall be 100 percent of the annual business license tax as established pursuant to Chapter 5.08 of the Municipal Code if the business is located in a downstairs space; if upstairs, a flat $25.00 will be assessed. Section 3: The penalty for delinquent payments shall be equal to that established for delinquent business license fees pursuant to Chapter 5.08 of the Municipal Code, providing that the penalty to be added shall in no event exceed one hundred percent of the assessment amount due. Section 4: The benefit assessments shall be collected by the City in one annual installment, with collections for new businesses in the BID 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 BID's fiscal year. Section 5: The improvements and activities to be funded by the benefit assessments shall include only the following: 1. Marketing, advertising, and public relations 2. Public area improvements and maintenance programs 3. Promotion of public events that take place on or in any public place in the area 4. General promotion of retail trade activities. 5. Administration The implementation of these actions is more fully described in the Marine Avenue Business Improvement District Fiscal Year 2010 -2011 Annual Report, which is on file with the office of the City Clerk. Section 6: The location of the BID will remain the same: Generally the 200 and 300 blocks of Marine 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 June 28, 2011 at 7:00 p.m., or Marine Avenue Business Improvement District 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 BID, the extent of the BID 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 BID which pay fifty percent or more of the total assessments to be levied, no further proceedings to renew the 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 BID, those types of improvements or activities or benefit zones shall be eliminated. Further information regarding the proposed Business Improvement District renewal and expansion may be obtained at the Newport Beach City Hall, 3300 Newport Boulevard, Newport Beach, California, 92658; (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 14th day of June, 2 ,11. I , L i,—, Michael F. Henn, Mayor ATTEST: A&-K � kU Vu ►`� Leilani Brown, City Clerk ATTACHMENT: Exhibit A (Boundary Map) �ctFila`�.. Marine Avenue Business Improvement District STATE OF CALIFORNIA } COUNTY OF ORANGE 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; that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 2011 -49 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 14th day of June, 2011, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit: Ayes: Hill, Rosansky, Gardner, Selich, Curry, Daigle, Mayor Henn 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 June, 2011. O�.�IaMA, � h mrv- � City Clerk Newport Beach, California (Seal)