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6.02 Operating Costs a. For the first Year and second Year of the Initial Service Term (2007), the City will pay the annual sum of $ if the City of Saint Paul is not a Member and the annual sum of $ if the City of Saint Paul is a Member. The City shall make payment to the County monthly in an amount equal to 1/12 of the appropriate sum,for that Year. The County will be responsible for the balance of operating costs for the Dispatch Center ( "Dispatch Operating Costs ") not covered by payments from Members. b. Thereafter, sixty (60) percent of the Dispatch Operating Costs will be paid through a county- wide property tax levy, and forty (40) percent of the Dispatch Operating Costs will be paid through an assessment to each Member based on Calls for Service from within the Member's jurisdictional boundaries compared to total Calls for Service to the Dispatch Center. A three - year rolling average of the Member's Calls for Services as a percentage share of Total Calls for Service for those three Years will be used to compute the Member's share. The City's annual share of the Dispatch Center Operating Costs that will be paid based on Calls for Services will be computed as follows after the second Year of the Initial Service Term. 1. For the third Year of the Initial Service Term, an average of the following will be used to determine the City's share: i. The City's initial share of Dispatch Operating Costs in the first Year as identified in section 6.02.a; and ii. The City's initial share of Dispatch Operating Costs in the second Year as identified in section 6.02.a; and iii. The City's percentage share of Calls for Service in the first Year. 2. For the fourth Year of the Initial Service Term, an average of the following will be used to determine the City's share: i. The City's initial share of Dispatch Operating Costs in the second Year as identified in section 6.02.a; and ii. The City's percentage share of Calls for Service in the first Year; and iii. The City's percentage share of Calls for Service in the second Year. 3. For the fifth Year and for each Year thereafter, the City's share will be the average of the City's Calls for Services over the most recent three Years for which Total Calls for Service data is available. 4. The County will give the City notice no later than the first day of June each Year of the amount due and payable to Ramsey County as the City's annual share of the Dispatch Operating Costs for the following Year. 5. The City shall make payment to the County monthly in an amount equal to 1/12 of the amount due and payable to Ramsey County for the Year, on the tenth day of each month of the Year, except for the payment for the first month of the Year, which shall be due by the end of the month. 6.03 911 Fees •Commencing with the first full month of the Initial Service Term, the County shall credit forty (40) percent of any 911 fees received by the County to the payments due to the County by the Members for forty (40) percent of the Dispatch Operating Costs for the Year the 911 fees are received, and shall credit sixty (60) percent of any 911 fees received by the County to reduce the County's property tax levy for the sixty (60) percent of the Dispatch Operating Costs to be paid through a county -wide property tax levy. 6.04 Other Funds Nothing herein shall preclude either party from applying for and receiving federal or state, or funds from other public and private sources, for the capital, equipment and /or operating costs of the Dispatch Center. Dispatch Agreement with the City of 6 of 11 8