A. The director shall, in accordance with the city's standard procurement procedures, engage the services of one or more cleanup contractors to perform cleanup services at the direction of the director on an as needed basis.
B. Upon discovering a break, leak, backup or other failure of city facilities, or any damage resulting from the same, a property owner shall immediately notify the director of such event.
C. Upon notification of the occurrence of the event, the director shall contact a cleanup contractor under contract with the city pursuant to subsection A of this section, and direct the cleanup contractor to perform all cleanup work at the premises, in accordance with established cleanup criteria.
D. In the event the property owner engages the services of a cleanup contractor prior to notifying the director of the event, the department may reimburse the property owner for actual expenses incurred by the property owner, but only up to the amount the department would have paid its own cleanup contractor under subsection C of this section.
E. In the event the damaged real or personal property cannot, in the judgment of the director, be reasonably restored to its pre- event condition, in accordance with the cleanup criteria, the department may pay to the property owner the estimated actual cash value, at the time of the event, of such property. Such value shall be determined by a professional appraiser engaged by the city for such purpose.
F. In no event shall the department pay, or reimburse the property owner for the payment of, special or consequential damages. (Ord. 23-06 § 2, 2006)