§ 8-10. 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 District's taxpayers.

(b) Scope of agreement.

This memorandum of understanding shall:

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

(2) commit the City to the maintenance of those 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 2 principles:

(1) Those services may not be decreased except:

(i) as part of an overall decrease in services necessitated by changes in funding, policy, or resources; and

(ii) only in proportion to the decreases implemented elsewhere in the City.

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