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Section 6.4 Administration Section 6.4.1 The City Council shall annually, by resolution at it's first meeting in January, determine the SAC charge for each building or connection and shall order the City Clerk or Treasurer to collect the applicable charge before issuance of a permit. The MCES will help determine SAC units if necessary and will make the final decisions regarding the correct number of units to assess. Section 6.4.2 The number of SAC unit charges collected each year shall be recorded by the City Clerk, and shall be made available to the MCES upon request. If after filing the required yearly report to the MCES, it is determined that a greater number of SAC units should have been assigned to a building, any additional amount of cost shall be paid by the person or company to whom the permit for that building was granted. SECTION 7 MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION, MAJOR MAINTENANCE AND/OR REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING MUNICIPAL SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM Section 7.1 Maintenance And Inspection Responsibilities Section 7.1.1 The City of Gem Lake City Council shall be responsible for the cost and scheduling of minor maintenance, flushing and inspection of all of the Municipal Sanitary Sewer System to include: a) Bi-annual flushing of sewer mains. b) Maintaining necessary records to determine location, age and condition of all of the existing sewer mains. c) Video or other means of inspection of the Municipal sanitary sewer system, at least once every 15 years, or as determined by system problems or reports from flushing operations. Section 7.1.2 The costs of the maintenance and inspection operations shall be paid from the revenues collected from the billings for the Municipal Sanitary Sewer System operations. As this system is operated as a public utility, all costs must be paid from funds collected from user fees and accounted for in a separate Enterprise Fund for the utility and not from the General Fund of the City of Gem Lake. Rates for system users shall be set with the costs of these maintenance and inspection operations in mind. Section 7.2 Costs For Major Repairs Or Replacement Section 7.2.1 The costs for major repairs or replacement of portions or all of the existing Municipal Sanitary Sewer System shall be borne by the end users of the system. The system is operated as a public utility and exists to serve it users.