A. Clean-Up Cost Payment: The City may pay clean-up costs incurred by an applicant that are proximately caused by a flooding event up to a maximum payment of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00). Causation shall be determined by the City's Risk Manager.
B. Clean-Up Cost Application: To receive clean-up costs, an applicant must submit a written request to the City Recorder for payment or reimbursement of clean-up costs. The clean-up cost application must be filed within two (2) years of the flooding event and delivered to the City Recorder in the manner set forth in subsection 9-8-4C of this chapter. The clean-up cost application must include all of the information required by subsection 9-8-4B of this chapter, the requested amount of clean-up costs, and substantiation of the amount of requested clean-up costs.
1. The amount of requested clean-up costs may be substantiated through invoices from a commercial clean-up professional, receipts for clean-up supplies, receipts for paid labor, or other similar documented evidence of clean-up costs incurred by the applicant.
C. City Fees: City fees necessary to effectuate the clean-up being compensated for as clean-up costs under this chapter may be waived by the City and shall not be considered part of the ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) available under this section.
D. Financial Assistance Only: The City does not accept any responsibility for the quality or effectiveness of the actual clean-up and sanitization of the applicant's property through payment of clean-up costs, and expressly disclaims any responsibility for defective or negligent clean-up and sanitization that was paid for with funds authorized by this chapter. The applicant is solely responsible for ensuring his/her property is effectively cleaned and sanitized. Governmental immunity is not waived as to liability or damages from deficient clean-up and sanitization.
E. Mitigation Of Clean-Up Costs: The City will not pay for any increase in clean-up costs, including but not limited to excessive mold growth, arising from an applicant's failure to promptly initiate actual clean-up of their property after a flooding event as determined by the City's Risk Manager or designee. It is the applicant's responsibility to mitigate clean- up costs through prompt clean-up and sanitization of the impacted property. (Ord. 18-09, 4-24-2018; amd. Ord. 21-11, 3-24-2021)