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File #: 2022-0782    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 9/28/2022 In control: Committee on Land Use and Economic Development
On agenda: 9/28/2022 Final action: 10/25/2022
Enactment date: 10/25/2022 Enactment #: 584
Effective date: 10/26/2022    
Title: Resolution amending Resolution No. 130 of 2018, effective January 1, 2018 by updating the continued designation of an Oakland Business Improvement District. (Public Hearing held 10/12/22)
Sponsors: Bruce A. Kraus
Attachments: 1. 2022-0782 OBID Parcels GP Edits (1), 2. 2022-0782 OBID_11x17, 3. 2022-0782 Annual Report from Public Hearing, 4. 2022-0782 Handouts from Public Hearing, 5. 2022-0782 OBID_Renewal_2023 - 2027 Projected Budgets 2, 6. 2022-0782 OBID_Renewal_Millage Rate and Land and Building Values, 7. 2022-0782 OBID_Renewal_Presentation
Title
Resolution amending Resolution No. 130 of 2018, effective January 1, 2018 by updating the continued designation of an Oakland Business Improvement District.
(Public Hearing held 10/12/22)

Body
WHEREAS, pursuant to an act of December 19, 1996, P.L. 1158 (53 Pa. C.S.A. ? 5401 et seq.), as amended, known as the "Business Improvement District Act" (the "Act"), municipal corporations are authorized to establish areas designated as business improvement districts within commercial districts; and

WHEREAS, under the Act, Cities of the Second Class are authorized to create business improvement districts to acquire property for improvement and provide administrative services which improve the ability of the commercial establishment of the business improvement district to serve the customer, including, but not limited to, public relations programs, group advertising and district maintenance and security services; and

WHEREAS, City Council is empowered by the Act to authorize an assessment within a business improvement district based on the total cost of approved services and improvements; and

WHEREAS, the Oakland Business Improvement District was created as a business improvement district pursuant to Resolution No. 142, approved March 2, 1999, effective March 18, 1999; amended by Resolution No. 86 approved March 10, 2004, effective March 18, 2004; amended by Resolution 628 approved November 17, 2008, effective November 21, 2008 amended by Resolution 816, approved December 23, 2013, effective January 2, 2014, amended by Resolution 130 approved March 16, 2018, effective January 1, 2018; and

WHEREAS, at the behest of the Oakland Business Improvement District Board of Directors, and in order to keep up with the demands of Oakland's growth in vehicle and pedestrian traffic, the City has been presented with proposed updated terms for the continued designation of an Oakland Business Improvement District, as set forth herein.

Be it resolved by the Council of the C...

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