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Approval of E xpenditures/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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