Item 36 - Intention to Disestablish the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District

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Resolution - Intention to Disestablish the Downtown Santa Ana BID December 20, 2022 Page 2 3 1 3 7 Over the course of the year, downtown businesses held several town hall meetings to express their dissent for the BID. Several protest forms were submitted to the Clerk of the Council and many merchants expressed their dissention for the BID and its operations at the Commission and Council meetings. On November 15, 2022, the City Council voted to start the process to dissolve the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District (BID). The next step in the BID disestablishment process is for City Council to adopt a resolution of intention to disestablish the BID and set a public hearing. The public hearing must be held no less than 20 and not more than 30 days after the date of adoption in accordance the Streets and Highways Code section 36530. Thereafter, City Council may adopt an ordinance after holding the public hearing on the disestablishment. Notice of the disestablishment of the BID will be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, no later than 15 days after the ordinance disestablishing the area is adopted. All businesses in the Business Improvement District will be notified and their BID assessment will be removed from their business license tax bill for 2023 and thereafter. No known assets were acquired with the revenues of the assessments levied within the Downtown BID. Any remaining revenues derived from the levy assessments shall be refunded to the owners of the method and basis that was used to calculate the assessments levied in the fiscal year in which the area is disestablished. FISCAL IMPACT There is no direct fiscal impact associated with this action. EXHIBIT(S) 1. Resolution Submitted By: Michael L. Garcia, Executive Director of Community Development Approved By: Kristine Ridge, City Manager