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Community Development Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/community-developent <br />Item # 5 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />February 7, 2023 <br />TOPIC: Adopt Ordinance to Disestablish the Downtown Santa Ana Business <br />Improvement District <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Second reading of an Ordinance to Disestablish the Downtown Santa Ana Business <br />Improvement District <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Place ordinance to Disestablish the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement <br />District on second reading and adopt. <br />DISCUSSION <br />On February 6, 1984, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. NS-1715 pursuant to <br />state law, creating a Business Improvement District (BID) in Downtown Santa Ana. The <br />BID was established as a means of providing the Downtown business community with <br />the funding to promote events and create promotional materials, increase the security <br />presence, enhance maintenance of the downtown shopping corridors, and implement <br />streetscape improvements. The BID is funded through an additional charge on the <br />business license tax for those businesses within the BID boundary. <br />On October 6, 2003, the City Council appointed the Community Redevelopment and <br />Housing Commission (CRHC) as the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement <br />District Advisory Board. As the BID Advisory Board, the CRHC, now known as the <br />Community Development Commission (CDC), is responsible for making <br />recommendations to the City Council on the expenditure of revenues derived from the <br />levy of assessments, on the classification of businesses, as applicable, and on the <br />method and basis of levying the assessments, including the annual budget. <br />The City Council activated the current BID on July 1, 2013. To administer the activities <br />of the BID, the City executed operating agreements with Downtown Inc. and the Santa <br />Ana Business Council in an effort to address the needs of the two business <br />associations. Each association received 50 percent of the BID assessment, <br />approximately $100,000 per year.