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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and adopt resolution approving the Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area program and assessment for the period of October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009; and authorize City Manager to execute an agreement with the Long Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau for a one-year term. (Districts 1,2,4,5)
DISCUSSION
The Long Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (LBCVB) promotes and markets the City of Long Beach as a tourism destination, using funds generated through self assessment of hotel properties located in the· Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area (LBTBIA). This self-assessment was established June 21, 2005. It established an assessment rate of 3 percent of the gross short-term room rental revenue for hotels within the LBTBIA boundary that have 31 rooms or more. This assessment is separate from all other LBCVB funding sources such as transient occupancy tax revenue sharing. Assessment revenue is received by the City and transferred to the LBCVB monthly.
State law governing Parking and Business Improvement Areas requires the submission of an annual assessment report by the Advisory Commission designated for this Assessment District. On August 4, 2008, the LBCVB Board voted to recommend to City Council approval of the LBTBIA Assessment Report (Attachment A). The Assessment Report describes boundaries, proposed activities and budgetary information, as well as the method and basis for continuation of the assessment. The report proposes no change in the basis and method of levying the assessment and no significant change in proposed activities.
State law further provides that the City Council shall hear and consider all protests against the assessment, program, boundaries of the area, and/or any benefit zone as proposed in the Assessment Report.
The law provides that protests may be made orally or in writing. Protests regarding the regularity...
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