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BID Advisory Board 2 October 16, 2008 to make recommendations to the City Council on the expenditure of revenues derived from the levy of assessments, and the method and basis of levying the assessments. On October 4, 2004, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2004-153 forming the West San Leandro Shuttle Business Improvement District Advisory Board. John Dlugosh, of Dlugosh Cabinet and Fixture Company, and Dora Wong, of the Coca Cola Bottling Company of California, were appointed in 2005 and continue to serve on the Advisory Board. In response to a vacancy in this five member board, which also includes the City's Engineering and Transportation Director and the City's Finance Director, the City mailed letters recruiting interested persons from all of the businesses that pay the BID fee. The top 42 employers within the BID received a letter from the Interim City Manager and the remainder of the businesses paying the BID fee received a letter from the Office of Business Development. Businesses within the BID employing five or fewer, landlords, home occupations, and non-profit companies are exempt from the BID fees. The Business and Housing Development Committee screened the applications from three interested business persons from the BID area. They were as follows: 1. Ida Marmon, President, Nashional Office Furniture, 2400 Merced Street (Merced Street south of Marina Boulevard). Ms. Marmon's business employs nine persons. 2. Geza Paulovitz, Chief Financial Officer, Eric F. Anderson Inc., 1066 Beecher Street. The company has been in business on Beecher Street since the early 1980s. It employs 125 persons which include 20 employees in the office and eight to nine in the shop on Beecher Street. The business remodels or constructs the interiors of large supermarkets such as Safeway. 3. Rich Wahl, Marketing Director, Mr. Plastics Inc., 2756 Alvarado Street (corner Alvarado Street and Aladdin Avenue) representing Mr. Michael Adelson, the owner of Mr. Plastics. The company employs 15 persons. The Committee found all three of the applicants were well qualified to provide input and that their businesses were geographically dispersed throughout the BID; thus the Committee recommended that all three persons be appointed along with the current Board members John Dlugosh and Dora Wong. The term of the office will be until December 31, 2009. Additional business representation on the BID board will not only allow for more input, but may also assist the City in not having to recruit for an Advisory Board member next year. Expanding the Advisory Board requires an amendment to the resolution adopted in October 2004 which .established that there be three business owners that pay the BID fee, as members of the Advisory Board. The proposed resolution would now specify a range of three to five business owners, along with the Director of Finance and the Director of Engineering and Transportation. This would result in a five- to seven-member Advisory Board. In making their recommendation to the City Council, the Advisory Board will conduct a review of how BID funds were spent in the 2007-08 fiscal year, and whether the proposed assessment