§ 7-10. Baseline City services.

(a) Agreement to maintain.

Before imposing and collecting the Supplemental Tax, the Authority shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Mayor regarding the level of services to be maintained by the City as the City's partnership obligation to the Authority and the Distric''s taxpayers.

(b) Scope of agreement.

This memorandum shall:

(1) describe the existing levels of service within the District;

(2) commit the City to the maintenance of such levels of service; and

(3) outline the further undertakings of the City in response to the initiative represented by the creation of the District (the "Baseline Plus").

The maintenance of existing services shall be governed by the 2 principles listed in this subsection (c).

(1) No decrease in such services shall occur except as part of an overall decrease in services necessitated by changes in funding, policy, or resources, and then only in proportion to the decreases implemented elsewhere in the City.

(2) Any increase in such services generally throughout the City shall be matched with increases in such services within the District, in proportion to the increases implemented elsewhere in the City.

(Ord. 25-001 Section 2; Ord. 22-176 Section 1; Ord. 04-672; Ord. 15-435; Ord. 99-432; Ord. 95-613.)

Prior Codifications

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §278

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §277

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §276

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §275

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §274

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(f)

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(e)

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(d)

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(b)(2), (c)

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §273(a), (b)(1), (b)(3)

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §272

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §271

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §270

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §269

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §268

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §267

City Code, 1976/83, art. 1, §266

Editor's Notes

By a series of enactments (the most recent being Resolution 20-017), the Mayor and City Council has continued the Authority and District through June 30, 2024.