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• 5.1. Activities authorized by this agreement are to: • • 5.1.1. Investigate methods and costs to jointly implement wellhead protection activities. 5.1.2. Determine process in which joint wellhead protection activities will be implemented. 5.1.3. Request consultant(s) qualifications and proposals to implement part or the entire Group's work plan. 5.1.4. Seek grants and other methods to fund implementation of the Group's wellhead protection activities. 5.1.5. Establish the apportioned costs for e# each City to jointly implement the common elements indicated in their wellhead protection plans. 5.2. The work plan will be finalized by the Group which may require the approval of each governing body and implementation in project parts to control costs and carry out orderly wellhead protection activities. 5.3. Prior to implementation of a wellhead protection project, the Group Facilitator will send notice to the Cities of the cost identified for the project. Within thirty (30) days of receipt of the notice, each city must either send a letter to the Group Facilitator indicating the city's interest in participation in the project or notify the other parties of its intention to refrain from participation in the project. 5.4. If one or more city chooses to refrain from participation following receipt of notice provided in 5.3, the Group Facilitator will recalculate the costs identified with participation in the project and send notice of the recalculated cost to the remaining cities. If identified costs increase by more than 10 %, each of the remaining cities will have thirty (30) days to reconsider participation in the project. If a city chooses to withdraw, the city must send the Group Facilitator a letter, within the ten day period, indicating the city will refrain from participation in the project. If an additional city or cities choose to withdraw, the Group will reevaluate the work plan and associated costs before sending a new notice under 5.3. 6. FUNDING 6.1. Costs of for the Group's wellhead protection projects shall be allocated to each member city based on the proportion that each city's factors represent the total factor of all participating cities. The factors to be used shall be equally weighted and apportioned relevant to its presence and impact on each member party's wellhead plan goals. 6.2. The costs to be allocated to the cities shall be reduced by the amount of any grants received before allocation of the costs. 6.3. Each city will make payment of its pro -rata share for authorized activity expense to the County. 6.4. Funds paid by the Cities or received from any other source shall be managed by the County. 6.5. Payments from the Cities must be received by the County before the County will incur any fiscal obligation. Page 3