Snohomish County Office of the Treasurer 2/12/2025

Category 2: Sensitive Information (b) Permits the County to act as the City's agent for collecting the Special Assessments and providing related services. (ii) The City shall respond to property owner inquiries regarding Special Assessments and processes within the City's control. (iii) The City shall be responsible for billing and collecting Special Assessments for public rights -of -way, federal real property, and real property without a Snohomish County tax parcel number. (iv) The City shall pay to the County Service Fee as provided in Section 4 below. 3.4 Delivery of Special Assessments In any calendar year for which the County collects Special Assessments for the City, the County shall deliver to the City the Special Assessments it collects, without any accrued interest and less the Service Fee described in Section 4 below. The County shall deposit the Special Assessments into a separate fiind (827) and will disburse the Special Assessments collected the prior month to the City on or around the 101h day of the month. 4. COMPENSATION The City shall reimburse the County its reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the County related to the billing and collection of Special Assessments (the "Service Fee") under this Agreement. Consistent with RCW 84.56.035, the Service Fee is 1% of the Special Assessments collected. In lieu of remitting payment to the County, the Service Fee will be deducted from each monthly payment to the City of collected Special Assessments. 5. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR All work performed by the County pursuant to this Agreement shall be performed by the County as an independent contractor and not as an agent or employee of the City. The County shall furnish, employ, and have exclusive control of all persons to be engaged in performing the County's obligations under this Agreement (collectively, the "County Personnel") and shall prescribe and control the means and methods of performing such obligations by providing adequate and proper supervision The County Personnel shall for all purposes be solely the employees or agents of the County and shall not be deemed to be employees or agents of the City for any purpose whatsoever. With respect to the County Personnel, the County shall be solely responsible for compliance with all rules, laws, and regulations relating to employment of labor, hours of labor, working conditions, payment of wages and payment of taxes, such as employment, Social Security, and other payroll taxes including applicable contributions from the County Personnel when required by law. INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT SPECIAL ASSESSMENT COST BILLING AND COLLECTION SERVICES Category 2: for official use only/ disclosure permissible by law.