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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL. ACTION CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: DECEMBER 15, 2015 TITLE: RECOMMENDED ACTION CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: APPROVED ❑ As Recommended ❑ As Amended ❑ Ordinance on 1" Reading ❑ Ordinance on 2 "0 Reading ❑ Implementing Resolution ❑ Set Public Hearing For® CONTINUED TO FILE NUMBER 1. Conduct a public hearing to consider all protests regarding the intention to levy an assessment for 2016 for the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District. 2. Review any written protests filed prior to the close of the public hearing and determine whether they constitute a majority protest. 3. If the Council determines that no valid majority protest was lodged, adopt a resolution confirming the Assessment Report and levying the assessment for 2016. DISCUSSION On November 17, 2015, the City Council approved the 2016 Assessment Report and budget for the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District (BID). In addition, the City Council adopted a resolution of Intention to Levy the 2016 assessment pursuant to California Streets and Highways Code section 35600 et seq. and scheduled the public hearing to consider protests to this action for its regular meeting of December 15, 2015. Business owners affected by the 2016 annual BID assessment may present written and /or oral protests during this public hearing. If written protests are received from business owners within the Downtown Santa Ana Business Improvement District (which will pay 50 percent or more of the proposed assessments and the protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the number to less than 50 percent), the Council will be precluded from taking any action to levy the 2016 assessment. Any written protests filed and not withdrawn must be reviewed to determine if they meet certain qualifications; this review will include a comparison of names and business owners with official City records. If it is determined that less than a majority protest is filed, the adoption of the 75A -1