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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />JANUARY 7, 2014 <br />TITLE: <br />PUBLIC HEARING — 2014 DOWNTOWN <br />BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT <br />ASSESSMENT <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 15' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Conduct a public hearing to consider all protests regarding the intention to levy an <br />assessment for 2014 for the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District. <br />2. Review any written protests filed prior to the close of the public hearing and determine <br />whether they constitute a majority protest. <br />3. If the Council determines that no valid majority protest was lodged, adopt a resolution <br />confirming the Assessment Report and levying the assessment for 2014. <br />DISCUSSION <br />At its meeting of December 16, 2013, the City Council approved the 2014 Assessment Report <br />and budget for the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District (BID). In addition, the <br />City Council adopted a resolution of Intention to Levy the 2014 assessment pursuant to California <br />Streets and Highways Code section 35600 et seq. and scheduled the public hearing to consider <br />protests to this action for its regular meeting of January 7, 2014 (Exhibit 1). <br />Business owners impacted by the 2014 annual BID assessment may present written and /or oral <br />protests during this public hearing. If written protests are received from business owners within <br />the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District (which will pay 50 percent or more of <br />the proposed assessments and the protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the number to <br />less than 50 percent), the Council will be precluded from taking any action to levy the 2014 <br />assessment. <br />Any written protests filed and not withdrawn must be reviewed to determine if they meet certain <br />qualifications; this review will include a comparison of names and business owners with official <br />City records. If it is determined that less than a majority protest is filed, the adoption of the <br />75A -1 <br />