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stated above will be the responsibility of the property owner and contracted separately by the property owner at their expense. C.The City’s action does not constitute and shall not be interpreted as an admission of liability or fault and that there are no covenants, promises, undertakings or understandings, either expressed or implied, other than those stated. D.Any claims for damage shall be submitted to the city for submittal to the city’s insurance carrier. E.The city will not pay more than $50,000 for cleanup from any occurrence of sewer backup for any single event affecting the city such as, but not limited to major weather events. If the cleanup costs for all affected properties, from any single occurrence, exceeds $50,000, the city will pay a percentage of each cleanup billing, equal to the percentage calculated by dividing $50,000 by the sum of all cleanup costs for the single event. The per property cost remaining will be billed to the property owner. F. The property owner is required to sign a cleanup agreement prior to the city’s cleanup contractor commencing work. This agreement outlines the scope of the work to be performed and an authorization to proceed. The agreement also states the property owner understands the city is not admitting any fault or liability for the backup by offering cleanup assistance. The property owner also agrees to payment for the underfunded costs of cleanup if the city’s $50,000 per event limit is reached. Any billing for underfunded costs not received within 90 days will be certified to property taxes. . FUNDING Sanitary sewer backup cleanup assistance will be funded utilizing sanitary sewer utility enterprise funds. The city will budget funds annually to be collected as a part of the sanitary sewer utility rate.