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Recommendation to Approve the Webster Street Business Improvement Area (BIA) Annual Assessment Report;
Adoption of Resolution of Intention to Levy an Annual Assessment on the Webster Street BIA for Fiscal Year 2020-21; and
Recommendation to Set a Public Hearing for May 19, 2020 to Levy an Annual Assessment on the Webster Street BIA. (Community Development)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
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.
This fiscal year is ending with the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting Shelter-in-Place order, which has led to an unprecedented situation for the Webster Street BIA. In an addendum to its annual report, WABA requested that there not be an annual CPI adjustment to the assessment fees.
Staff is requesting that the City Council adopt a resolution setting a public hearing on May 19, 2020 to levy the annual BIA assessment for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020-21.
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 the 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 e...
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