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National City council directs staff to study variable gross-receipts business license (Model 3) and pursue outreach; Model 2 also to be included in polling
Summary
After an HDL feasibility study showing models that could raise between roughly $300,000 and over $7 million, council directed staff to study Model 3 (variable-rate gross receipts) and conduct outreach and polling that also includes Model 2; council noted legal and ballot deadlines and requested more refined comparisons for businesses and cap/tier data.
The National City Council reviewed a consultant's feasibility study on changing the city's business license fee structure to a gross receipts model and directed staff to study a variable-rate gross receipts option and begin outreach and polling that also considers a single-rate gross receipts alternative.
Acting Deputy City Manager Martha Juarez introduced a study HDL conducted under a $50,000 contract; Pedro Garcia, the city's community development specialist, summarized that HDL examined the city's registry data, benchmarked peer jurisdictions and modeled three options. Ken Duran of HDL told the council the city has 5,480 registered businesses; the top 100 accounts represent about 57% of reported gross receipts but account for roughly 29% of current city tax revenue because of existing caps and flat-fee tiers.
HDL presented three models: (1) raising existing flat fees (an illustrative 40% increase that HDL estimated would yield about $304,000), (2) a…
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