AN ORDINANCE establishing a new 15th Avenue East Business Improvement Area (BIA); levying special assessments upon owners of commercial property, multi-family residential property, and mixed-use property within the area; providing for the deposit of revenues in a special account and expenditures therefrom; providing for collection of and penalties for delinquencies; providing for the establishment of a BIA Advisory Board; providing for an implementation agreement with a Program Manager; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
President Gonzalez, high eight in favor. None opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the QUIRK Visa fix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Congratulations, everyone who's been working really hard on this issue. Okay. Well, the clerk please read the short title of item 13 into the record and report that the Community Economic Development Committee Agenda Item 13 Council Bill 120 162 establishing a new 15th Avenue East Business Improvement Area. The committee recommends that all passes amended and. So much. Okay. I'm going to hand this over to Councilmember Morales, who is the chair of the committee to provide the report. Thank you. Council president colleagues, this is the bill to create the fifth avenue via. We discussed this in the Community Economic Development Committee on September eight. We heard from proponents of the idea and also held a public hearing on it. So as you know, the way this works, local businesses vote to assess themselves, to provide cleanup services, graffiti removal, to be able to host neighborhood events and marketing, provide marketing services to the local businesses. I will say we did have some concern. We heard from some commercial tenants about their concern. As you know, it is the property owners who get to vote on whether or not to assess themselves. The small businesses who may rent from these owners don't get to participate in that vote. So we hear from some of them that they were concerned about the impact on them, assuming that this may pass down in the form of higher rents. So I did amend the legislation in committee to ensure that at least two commercial tenants are on the board and that we include the option of using some of the assessment revenue to pay for small business assistance or other programs that can help keep small businesses from getting displaced. I do want to thank Councilmember Peterson and his staff who had proposed similar legislation when you district the air was passed several months ago. So thanks for working with us to do something similar here. And as Amelia said, we did pass this unanimously out of committee on September 21st. So I am encouraging my colleagues to support the bill. Thank you so much. Are there any additional comments on the bill? I don't see any hands raised so well. The police call the role on the adoption of the bill. Strauss. Yes. Herbert. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Mesquita, I. Petersen. I so want. Yes. President Gonzales. I A-10 favorite. Nunn opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the girl please affect my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read items 15 through 18 into the record?