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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />NOVEMBER 21, 2017 <br />TITLE: <br />DOWNTOWN SANTA ANA BUSINESS <br />IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT – INTENT TO <br />LEVY ASSESSMENT FOR 2018 <br />{STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 3, 4F} <br />V <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance onI�Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Approve the 2018 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 the <br />2018 calendar year and establish a time and place for a public hearing to be held by the <br />City Council on December 19, 2017 to hear and consider all protests. <br />COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION <br />At its meeting on October 25, 2017, by a vote of 5:0 (De Leon absent and Ramos abstained), the <br />Community Redevelopment and Housing Commission approved the following: <br />1. Recommend that City Council approve the 2018 Assessment Report for the Downtown <br />Santa Ana Business Improvement District (BID), which is administered by two <br />organizations, the Santa Ana Business Council and Downtown Incorporated. <br />2. Recommend that City Council direct the Interim Executive Director of the Community <br />Development Agency to file the 2018 Business Improvement District Assessment Report <br />with the Clerk of the Council for City Council approval or modification. <br />BACKGROUND <br />On February 6, 1984, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. NS -1715 pursuant to state law, <br />creating a Business Improvement District (BID) in Downtown Santa Ana. The BID was <br />established as a means of providing the Downtown business community with the funding to <br />promote events and create promotional materials, increase the security presence, enhance <br />maintenance of the downtown shopping corridors, and implement streetscape improvements to <br />12A-1 <br />