Ordinance 2842-05 - Laserfiche WebLink

the proposed budget, will adopt a resolution setting the time and place for a hearing to be held by the City Council to consider the proposed activities and budget. Notice of the hearing shall be given by: (1) one publication of the notice of hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the City; and (2) mailing a copy of the proposed activities, budget, and assessment rates for the ensuing fiscal year to the owner or reputed owner of property in the District whose names appear as the owners on the records of the City Treasurer, at the address for such owners as shown on the records of the City Treasurer, or at such other address for a particular owner as such owner may have previously requested in writing, or, if no address is shown there, to the address shown in the tax records of the Snohomish County Assessor. At the time fixed for the hearing, and at the times to which the hearing may be adjourned, the Council may correct, revise, modify, and amend the proposed activities,budget, and assessment, and thereafter,by ordinance or resolution, approve the activities, budget, and assessment as proposed or as modified, and billings for the ensuing annual assessment shall be mailed to the property owners in the District. Section 13. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES/CONTRACT FOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT. The activities, services and projects to be funded with the special assessment proceeds for the first three years, and the three year budget as set forth in the materials on file with the City Clerk, are hereby approved. There is hereby appropriated and authorized to be expended from the District Fund the sum of$175,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes, projects, activities, and services approved for the each or the next three years BIA fiscal years ( June 1, 2005 through June 30, 2008.). Unless otherwise authorized by the City, the total amount to be specially assessed and expended in subsequent years shall be as set forth in the budget approved by the City. The particular program and services to be provided for each subsequent period and the amount of funding thereof shall be as approved by ordinance of the City Council, after notice and hearing as provided by Section 12 hereof. The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to contract with the downtown Downtown Everett Association, or similar organization, to administer projects and activities for the first year. Thereafter, the City may continue each year to contract with the Downtown Everett Association, or similar organization, to administer the forthcoming annual program, unless a suitable successor organization is recommended by(a) a majority of the votes of the ratepayers at their annual meeting weighed by the dollar value of their assessments, (b) a petition signed by ratepayers paying a majority of the assessments, or (c) by the association itself. Section 14. RATE CHANGES. Any change in the assessment shall only be made by ordinance and as authorized in RCW 35.87A.130-140. To prevent reduction in services due to inflation in prices, the City may from time to time, by ordinance, increase or reduce assessment. Section 15. NOTICES. Notices of assessments, installment payments or delinquency and all other notices contemplated by this ordinance may be sent by ordinary mail or delivered by the City to the address shown on 6