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Home My WebLink About55B - RESO ENTERPRISE ZONEREQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: MAY 5, 2008 TITLE: RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE NEW PROPOSED TARGET EMPLOYMENT AREA FOR THE ENTERPRISE ZONE 7 ~- CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDED ACTION CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: APPROVED ^ As Recommended ^ As Amended ^ Ordinance on 1S` Reading ^ Ordinance on 2"d Reading ^ Implementing Resolution ^ Set Public Hearing For CONTINUED TO FILE NUMBER Adopt a resolution for the new proposed Target Employment Area to complete final designation of the Enterprise Zone. DISCUSSION The Enterprise Zone (EZ) Program is intended to provide state and local incentives for businesses to invest and locate in economically distressed areas of California. A Target Employment Area (TEA) is an area within a city that is composed solely of those census tracts that have at least fifty-one percent of its residents of low-or moderate-income levels. Its purpose is to encourage businesses in an EZ to hire eligible residents from these geographic areas. The incentive for these businesses is the availability of a tax credit for hiring residents who reside in a TEA. To establish a TEA, an EZ must submit an application for TEA designation to the Housing and Community Development Department. The application must clearly identify the census tracts that will constitute the proposed TEA and demonstrate that they meet the eligible criteria. The application must include a certified resolution which approves the boundaries of its TEA. It is required that the Council adopt the boundary proposed for the new Target Employment Area (TEA) by resolution to complete the EZ final designation. 55B-1 Resolution Adopting the New Proposed TEA for the Enterprise Zone May 5, 2008 Page 2 FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact associated with this action. ~~ Ste hen G. H rding Deputy City Manager for Development Services Community Development Agency SGH/CWD/mlr 050508 ResoAdoptTEA 55B-2 bk:4/29/08 RESOLUTION NO. 2008-XXX A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA IDENTIFYING THE CENSUS TRACTS COMPRISING THE TARGETED EMPLOYMENT AREA FOR THE SANTA ANA ENTERPRISE ZONE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. On January 31, 2008, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that the City of Santa Ana has been conditionally re-designated as a California Enterprise Zone. This designation shall be in effect for fifteen (15) years. B. The California Enterprise Zone Program targets economically distressed areas using special state and local incentives to promote business investment and job creation. By encouraging entrepreneurship and employer growth, the program strives to create and sustain economic expansion in California communities. C. Section 7072(1) of the California Government Code defines a "Targeted Employment Area" as an area within a city that is composed solely of those census tracts that have at least 51 percent of its residents of low- or moderate-income levels. Its purpose, according to the Code, is to encourage businesses in an enterprise zone to hire eligible residents from these geographic areas. The incentive for these businesses is the availability of a tax credit for hiring residents who reside in a TEA. D. By adoption of Resolution No. 97-002, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana established Santa Ana's Targeted Employment Area ("TEA"). E. Recent legislation, Assembly Bill 1550, requires that enterprise zones, which obtained a TEA prior to the availability of the 2000 United States census data, review and update their TEA boundaries to reflect the most recent census data. F. To comply with this requirement, Santa Ana's application to the Department of Housing and Community Development must include a certified copy of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana 55B-3 Resolution No. 2007-XXX Page 1 of 2 which approves the boundaries of the TEA, and sets forth the census tracts numbers within the TEA. Section 2. The following census tracts, lying wholly or partly within the territorial jurisdiction of the City of Santa Ana, have been designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development as having at least 51 percent of their residents of low- and moderate-income levels, and are hereby identified as those census tracts which are in the most need of employment targeting pursuant to the Enterprise Zone Act: 740.03, 740.04, 740.05, 740.06, 741.02, 741.03, 741.06, 741.07, 741.08, 741.09, 742, 743, 744.03, 744.05, 745.01, 745.02, 746.01, 746.02, 747.01, 747.02, 748.01, 748.02, 748.03, 748.05, 748.06, 749.01, 749.02, 750.02, 750.03, 750.04, 751, 752.01, 752.02, 753.01, 753.02, 754.04, 754.05, 890.04, 891.05, 992.47, 992.48 and 992.49. Section 3. A Targeted Employment Area composed of the above-specified census tracts and having the boundaries created by grouping the said census tracts together, as shown on Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein, is hereby approved, effective immediately. Section 4. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the City Council, and the Clerk of the Council shall attest to and certify the vote adopting this Resolution. ADOPTED this day of , 2008. Miguel A. Pulido Mayor APPROVED AS TO FORM: Joseph W. Fletcher, City Attorney By: Benjamin Kaufman Chief Assistant City Attorney Resolution No. 2007-XXX Page 2 of 2 55B-4 AYES: Councilmembers NOES: Councilmembers ABSTAIN: Councilmembers NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY I, PATRICIA E. HEALY, Clerk of the Council, do hereby attest to and certify the attached Resolution No. 2008-XXX to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana on . Date: Clerk of the Council City of Santa Ana Resolution No. 2007-XXX 55B-5 Page 3 of 2 Target Employment Area Boundaires Census Tracts Proposed Target Employment ~~ Area 753.01 i5aos ' _ 760 0 59.02 ~ - ~ ~ ~ 1 ~ i LL 691.07 ~ mi 754.04 ° 3 754.01 } Ira Ave 753.03 ~. o~ 753 02 757.0 . . ° ~ 691.02 I m~ ~ ' ~ W stminster ve 17th St ~ 754.05 ~ ~II 1~tn sr 04 91.On1 --~~ cow 891 _ . 752.02 ° _ °• . ~ A~ _ Wa in ton Ave O ¢' ~ 762.01 751.00 ~ N ago 01 ~ 890.04 0 891.05 ~ ~ ~ :..___..._._ _.. r 7 ~ ~ ~ 754.03 89.03 ~ C0 ° ``" 7 4.06 ~ -- Ana I d _ 4th St _ 151 St z 02 4 ~ t s1 St 755.05 N , _ _ --- t st St p 992.47 992.48 992.49 748A1 749.01 _ w 992.0 cFadden Av ; _ m~ ~ 2 748.05 ~, 748 06 749.02 746.02 ° ¢ _ ,4a 7 ~ ~ . 992.02 ` ~ Ave ~ ~ ~ C~7 748.03 ~ M Fa Edin erAve ~ , -- ~ 747`01 747.02 746. 1 ~ ~ 744.03 Ern Ave ~^ 745.52 ~J~~~E~~dir~gerAve ° -- I / N ~ \ 741.09 0 74 0 ~ 741.02 _ 741.03 i 741.OSi 743.00 ~ A Wamer Av me Ave `~' °I 740.05 ~ 740.03 „ ~.. m ~~~ erstrom Ave 741.10 741.11 J - Se erstrom Ave ~~Rd____~_. 755.15 ~ 741.06 `~ ~ Afton Ave S 741.07 740.04 _MaeArth rBlvd 740.06 5 nflovrerAve I NN o a ° 3 ' i ~ al ~ ' li~' ' 0.0 0.5 1.0 1. p _ ~5 2.0 mi ~ - '' Source: 2000 Census Data cro~.~w xa. unaw «...ry.e 55B-6 Exhibit A