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Section 8. Section 9 of Ordinance No. 3396, as amended (EMC 18.44.090), regarding "Collection and transfer of fees" for School District Impact Fees, which reads as follows: A. School impact fees shall be due and payable to the city by the developer at the time of issuance of residential building permits for all developments. The city may make alternative arrangements with a school district for collection of impact fees, provided payment is made prior to the issuance of residential building permits for all developments. B. Districts eligible to receive school impact fees required by this chapter shall establish an interest-bearing account and method of accounting for the receipt and expenditure of all impact fees collected under this chapter. The school impact fees shall be deposited in the appropriate district account within ten days after receipt, and the receiving school district shall provide the city with a notice of deposit. C. Each district shall institute a procedure for the disposition of impact fees and providing for annual reporting to the city that demonstrates compliance with the requirements of RCW 82.02.070, and other applicable laws. Is hereby amended to read as follows: A. School impact fees shall be due and payable to the city by the developer at the time of issuance of residential building permits for all developments, except as provided in EMC 18.44.090(B). The city may make alternative arrangements with a school district for collection of impact fees, provided payment is made prior to the issuance of residential building permits for all developments. B. The deferral of school impact fees shall be allowed only for single-family attached and detached construction being constructed by an applicant having a contractor registration number or other unique identification number and in accordance with the following: 1. For this subsection: (a) "Applicant" includes an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the applicant. (b) "Common control" means two or more entities controlled by the same person or entity. (c) "Control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting shares, by contract, or otherwise. 2. An applicant wishing to defer the payment of school impact fees shall: (a) Submit a signed and notarized deferred fee application and completed lien form concurrent with the building permit application for the building subject to the fee; and (b) Submit a certification that the applicant has requested no more than a total of twenty deferred impact fee requests in the calendar year within the city; and (c) Pay a non-refundable $250.00 administration fee for each unit or lot of a single development project for which the deferral of the fee is requested. Beginning January 1, 2018, and each January 1 thereafter, this fee shall be adjusted in accordance with the most recent change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or other official measurement of inflation used by the city. If the change in the CPI or other official measurement of inflation used by the city indicates an increase of less than one percent since the last adjustment of the fees listed herein, there shall be no increase for that year. At such time that the change in the CPI or other official measurement of inflation used by the city for one or more years indicates an increase of one percent or 10