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LINKS BID 2 December 15, 2008 Redevelopment Agency Support • The West San Leandro/MacArthur Blvd. Redevelopment Project Area has contributed between $56,000 to $83,000 annually to shuttle operations, with the exception of one year in which support exceeded $200,000. • Staff does not recommend continued funding of LINKS without business support for the shuttle, exemplified by less than 50% of businesses protesting the creation of a new BID. Process To Re-Establish the Bid For A Five Year Term Starting in FY 2009-10 At the request of the SLTMO, the City Council must adopt a Resolution of Intention, declaring the City's intention to re-establish the BID if the Council wishes to do so. Adoption of the ROI starts the legally required notification and public hearing process to obtain input from the community as to the merits of the proposed assessment. All of the businesses within the boundaries of the BID who pay the assessment will be mailed a notice of the proposal to re-establish the BID within seven days after the Council action on the ROI. This notice will be mailed in a City of San Leandro envelope stamped "Public Notice" in red ink for emphasis. The mailing will include an informational sheet that explains the following: • the type of assessment, • the affected parties, • how the assessment would be collected, • the purpose of the fee, • the time and place for the required public hearing, and • how to register a protest vote. The mailing will also include: • a copy of the ROI, as required by law, • a map showing the shuttle route and the boundaries of the proposed BID, and • aself-addressed postcard sized protest card, as a convenience to those business owners that choose to register a protest. All notices will be addressed directly to the affected business or "current business" to ensure the most accurate noticing possible. In addition, for those businesses with a mailing address outside the BID, a notice will be mailed to both the mailing address and the physical address within the shuttle area. At the conclusion of the Public Hearing, staff will provide an uncertified total of BID protest votes and present this information to the City Council. If the combination of written protests and verbal protests by business owners amount to more than 50% of the total assessments, the BID will fail and cannot be re-established. Furthermore, no other attempt may be made to form the BID in the stated area for a period of one year. If the City receives protest ballots from less than 50% of the affected business owners, the Council can at its discretion approve the ordinance and re-establish the BID. This could occur by the end of March 2009 and take effect by May 2009. Concurrent with adoption of the ordinance to re-establish the BID, the City and Redevelopment Agency will need to enter into a new agreement with the SLTMO for the management and administration of the West San Leandro Shuttle and Business Improvement District.