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Approval of Expenditures/Contract for Program Management.
<br /> The purposes, activities, services, and projects to be funded with the special assessment proceeds for
<br /> the five years beginning January 1, 2021,through December 31, 2025, and the five year budget as set
<br /> forth in Attachment A to this Ordinance, are hereby approved.There is hereby appropriated and
<br /> authorized to be expended from the District Fund the sum of$520,646 in 2021, $536,265 in 2022,
<br /> $552,353 in 2023, $568,924 in 2024, and $585,992 in 2025, provided that Snohomish County extends its
<br /> Interlocal Agreement with the City to participate in the BIA each year through 2025; or so much thereof
<br /> as may be necessary,for the purposes, activities, services, and projects approved for each of the next
<br /> five BIA fiscal years (January 1, 2021,through December 31, 2025). If Snohomish County does not
<br /> extend its Interlocal Agreement with the City to participate in the BIA at any point through 2025, a
<br /> modified proposed budget shall be brought before Council for approval. Unless otherwise authorized by
<br /> the City,the total amount to be specially assessed and expended in subsequent years shall be as set
<br /> forth in the budget approved by the City.The particular program and services to be provided for each
<br /> subsequent period and the amount of funding thereof shall be as approved by ordinance of the City
<br /> Council after notice and hearing as provided by Section 12. The Mayor is hereby authorized and
<br /> directed to contract with the Downtown Everett Association, or similar organization, to administer funds
<br /> for the approved purposes, activities, services, and projects for the first year.Thereafter the City may
<br /> continue each year to contract with the Downtown Everett Association or similar organization to
<br /> administer the forthcoming annual program, unless a suitable successor organization is recommended
<br /> by (a) a majority of the votes of the ratepayers at their annual meeting weighed by the dollar value of
<br /> their assessments, (b) a petition signed by ratepayers paying the majority of the assessments,or(c) by
<br /> the association itself.
<br /> Section 5.The City Clerk and the codifiers of this Ordinance are authorized to make necessary
<br /> corrections to this Ordinance including, but not limited to,the correction of scrivener's/clerical errors,
<br /> references, ordinance numbering, section/subsection numbers, and any internal references.
<br /> Section 6. The City Council hereby declares that should any section, paragraph,sentence,clause or
<br /> phrase of this ordinance be declared invalid for any reason, it is the intent of the City Council that it
<br /> would have passed all portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination of any such portion as
<br /> may be declared invalid.
<br /> Section 7. The enactment of this Ordinance shall not affect any case, proceeding, appeal or other
<br /> matter currently pending in any court or in any way modify any right or liability, civil or criminal,which
<br /> may be in existence on the effective date of this Ordinance.
<br /> Section 8. It is expressly the purpose of this Ordinance to provide for and promote the health,safety
<br /> and welfare of the general public and not to create or otherwise establish or designate any particular
<br /> class or group of persons who will or should be especially protected or benefited by the terms of this
<br /> Ordinance. It is the specific intent of this Ordinance that no provision or any term used in this Ordinance
<br /> is intended to impose any duty whatsoever upon the City or any of its officers or employees. Nothing
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