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Recommendation to Approve the Webster Street Business Improvement Area Annual Assessment Report; and
Adoption of Resolution of Intention to Levy an Annual Assessment on the Webster Street Business Improvement Area of the City of Alameda for Fiscal Year 2025-26, and to Set a Public Hearing for May 6, 2025. (Base Reuse and Economic Development 10061810)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jennifer Ott, City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Webster Street Business Improvement Area (BIA); which is managed by the West Alameda Business Association (WABA); is funded from an assessment collected by the City of Alameda (City) from all businesses within that business district. Every year, WABA presents a report to the City Council on the activities and expenditures that have occurred during the past fiscal year. The annual report also provides recommendations on the proposed expenditure of BIA revenues for the next fiscal year.
Per the Alameda Municipal Code (AMC), each year the BIA assessment has an automatic Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase based on the San Francisco Area CPI. This year's CPI of 2.4 percent would raise the minimum retail business annual fee by $9.00 to $370.00.
Staff requests that City Council adopt a resolution setting a public hearing on May 6, 2025 to levy the annual BIA assessment for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-26.
BACKGROUND
In 1989, following the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law of 1979 in the California Streets and Highways Code, the City Council established regulations for BIAs in the Park Street and Webster Street commercial areas. This staff report is for the Webster Street BIA, which is managed by WABA.
The BIA is funded from fees collected by the City from all businesses within the business district. The pooling of resources improves the business district as a whole and directly benefits business owners through the general promotion of business activities and public events, beauti...
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