REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Public Hearing and Adoption of Resolution to Confirm the Annual Report and Levy and Collect an Annual Assessment for the Downtown Sunnyvale Business Improvement District for Fiscal Year 2017/2018; Public Hearing and Introduction of an Ordinance Amending Chapter 3.60, Entitled Downtown Sunnyvale Business Improvement District, of Title 3 of the Sunnyvale Municipal Code to Convert Portions of BID Zone C to BID Zone B
Report
BACKGROUND
On April 25, 2017, the City Council approved the Fiscal Year 2016/2017 BID Annual Report, adopted a Resolution of Intention to reauthorize the Downtown Sunnyvale Business Improvement District (BID), and adopted a Resolution of Intention to Consider Proposed Conversion of Portions of BID Zone C to Zone B.
With the adoption of both resolutions, the Council set May 23, 2017 for the public hearings. The purpose of the public hearings is to provide BID businesses an opportunity to support or oppose the BID reauthorization and the zone conversion request. City Council will hear and consider protests the BID reauthorization, against the conversion of portions of Zone C to Zone B, and/or protests regarding the proposed activities of the proposed BID.
If, after each public hearing, businesses paying 50 percent or more of the total BID assessments file a protest, no further proceedings to reauthorize the BID or to convert portions of Zone C to Zone B can occur. If protests do not exceed 50 percent, staff recommends that Council adopt the Resolution to Confirm the Annual Report and Levy and Collect an Annual Assessment for Fiscal Year 2017/2018 (Attachment 1), and that Council introduce the Ordinance Amending the Sunnyvale Municipal Code, Title 3, Chapter 3.60 for Fiscal Year 2017/2018 (Attachment 2).
Downtown Sunnyvale BID
There are approximately 190 businesses located in the existing BID area, which is divided into three zones: Zone A, Zone B, and Zone C. The BID boundaries are Sunnyvale, Iowa, Mathilda an...
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