File #: 18-200    Version: 1 Name: Ordinance Adjusting Business License Tax for FY 2018-19
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
In control: City Council
Meeting Date: 5/7/2018 Final action: 5/21/2018
Enactment date: 5/21/2018 Enactment #: Ordinance 2018-007
Title: ORDINANCE Amending Section 2-2-500 of the San Leandro Municipal Code Relating to the Annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) Adjustment of the Business License Fees (increases business license fees by CPI of 3.2%)
Sponsors: David Baum Finance Director
Related files: 18-199, 18-201, 18-202

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ORDINANCE Amending Section 2-2-500 of the San Leandro Municipal Code Relating to the Annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) Adjustment of the Business License Fees (increases business license fees by CPI of 3.2%)

 

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WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2-2-500 of the San Leandro Municipal Code, the Business License Fees shall be adjusted annually by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index (All-Urban Consumers, San Francisco-Bay Area); and

 

WHEREAS, the City Council desires to adjust the Business License Fees, based on the 3.2% annual CPI increase.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Leandro does ORDAIN as follows:

 

Section 1.                     Chapter 2, Title 2, Section 2-2-500 of the San Leandro Municipal Code is amended to reflect a 3.2% annual CPI adjustment and to read as follows:

 

“2-2-500                     FEES BASED ON NATURE OF BUSINESS

 

Every person commencing or carrying on a business within this City shall pay a license fee in an amount determined by the Finance Director in accordance with the nature of the business as hereinafter set forth:

 

                     Annual

Business Classification                     Base Fee                     Unit Fee                                          Unit Fee Basis                     

Automobile Wrecking                     $682.80                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Bingo                     $136.20                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Carnival                     $136.20                     $245.60                                          Flat/Daily

Christmas Trees/Pumpkin Patch                     $682.80                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Coin-Operated Device                     $136.20                     $1.20                                          x per $1,000 of gross receipts

Commercial Advertising                     $682.80                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Contractors                     $136.20                     $81.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Dance Hall                     $682.80                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Firearms Dealer                     $136.20                          $4.10                                          per $100 of gross receipts attributable to

                                                                                    the sales of firearms capable of being

                                                                                    concealed upon the person and

                                                                                    ammunition for such firearms, excluding

                                                                                    sales to public agencies

Fortunetelling                     $682.80                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Itinerant Merchant                     $136.20                     $42.30                                          Flat/Weekly

Manufacturing                     $136.20                     $40.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Miscellaneous                     $136.20                     $40.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Mobile Food Vendors                     $136.20                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Nonresidential Property Rental                     $136.20                     $20.40                                          x per 1,000 square feet

Residential Property Rental                     $136.20                     $12.30                                          x per unit or space

Parking Lot                     $136.20                     $100.00                                          x per $1,000 of gross receipts

Pawnbroker                     $682.80                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Peddler/Solicitor                     $136.20                     $40.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Professional                     $136.20                     $102.50                                          x per each owner and each employee

Public Utilities                     $136.20                     $40.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Recreation and Entertainment                     $136.20                     $81.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Retail                     $136.20                     $40.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Secondhand Dealer                     $682.80                     -                                          Flat/Annual

Services                     $136.20                     $81.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

Towing                     $136.20                     $1.20                                          x per $1,000 of gross receipts

Warehouse/Storage                     $136.20                     $106.30                                          x per 1,000 square feet

Waste Disposal Site                     $136.20                     $1.84                                          per ton

Wholesale/Distribution General                     $136.20                     $106.30                                          x per 1,000 square feet

Wholesale/Distribution - Large

   Local seller                     $136.20                     $40.90                                          x per each owner and each employee

                                                                                    If sales tax revenues to the City is >

                                                                                    $50,000 based on prior fiscal year

                     

 

The business license fees established by this Section shall continue to be adjusted annually by an amount equal to the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan area, as published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Statistics.” 

 

Section 2.                     Effective Date.

 

This ordinance shall take effect July 1, 2018.  The City Clerk is directed to publish the title once and post a complete copy thereof on the City Council Chamber bulletin board for five (5) days prior to adoption.