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Recommendation to Approve the Webster Street Business Improvement Area (BIA) Annual Assessment Report; and
Adoption of Resolution of Intention to Levy an Annual Assessment on the Webster Street BIA for Fiscal Year 2021-22; and Set a Public Hearing for May 4, 2021 to Levy an Annual Assessment on the Webster Street BIA. (Community Development 256)
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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 during the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to unprecedented challenges for the Webster Street BIA. WABA requested that there be no annual CPI adjustment to the assessment fees for the second year in a row due to the pandemic
Staff is recommending 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) 2021-22.
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 Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) in the Park Street and Webster Street commercial areas. This staff report is for the Webster Street BIA, which is managed by the West Alameda Business Association (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 activit...
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