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Public Hearing to Consider the Adoption of a Resolution Confirming the Webster Street Business Improvement Area Assessment Report for Fiscal Year 2021-22; and Levying an Annual Assessment on the Webster Street Business Improvement Area of the City of Alameda for Fiscal Year 2021-22. (Community Development 256)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Alameda City Council will be holding a public hearing to levy an annual assessment on the businesses within the Webster Street Business Improvement Area, which is managed on behalf of the City of Alameda (City) by the West Alameda Business Association (WABA). The public hearing allows business owners in the Business Improvement Areas (BIA) an opportunity to comment on or protest the proposed assessment.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the unprecedented hardship it has caused for the West Alameda district, WABA has requested that there not be an annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustment to the assessment fees. In response to that request, at its April 20, 2021 meeting, the City Council adopted a resolution declaring its intention to set the proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22 BIA levy at the same level as the FY 2020-21 levy.
Staff is requesting that the City Council hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution to confirm the West Alameda BIA's annual report and to levy the annual BIA assessment, with no annual CPI adjustment, for FY 2021-22.
BACKGROUND
In 1989, City Council created BIAs in the Park Street and Webster Street commercial areas. These BIAs were established in accordance with the Parking and Business Improvement Area Law in the California Streets and Highways Code. This 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 thro...
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