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Community Development Agency <br />santa-ana.org/cd <br />Item # 18 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Staff Report <br />November 2, 2021 <br />TOPIC: Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Adopt Resolution of Intent to Levy 2022 Assessment for Downtown Santa Ana Business <br />Improvement District <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />1. Approve the 2022 Assessment Report for the Downtown Santa Ana Business <br />Improvement District (BID), which is administered by two organizations: the Santa Ana <br />Business Council and Downtown Incorporated. <br />2. Adopt a resolution of intention to levy an annual business license tax assessment for <br />the 2022 calendar year and establish a time and place for a public hearing to be held <br />by the City Council on December 7, 2021. <br />DISCUSSION <br />On February 6, 1984, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. NS-1715 pursuant to state <br />law, creating a Business Improvement District (BID) in Downtown Santa Ana. The BID <br />was established as a means of providing the Downtown business community with funding <br />to promote events and create promotional materials, increase the security presence, <br />enhance maintenance of the downtown shopping corridors, and implement streetscape <br />improvements. The BID is funded through an additional charge on the business license <br />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 2022 Assessment Report contains the basis and method of levying the assessment, <br />estimated activities and budgets from the two business associations, the Santa Ana <br />Business Council and Downtown Inc., and a map of the BID boundaries (Exhibit 1A). The <br />