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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 19-10 MoU on baseline City services.">
  <section prefix="§" num="19-10" heading="MoU on baseline City services.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Agreement to maintain.">The Authority shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Mayor regarding the level of services to be maintained by the City as the City’s obligation to the Authority and the District.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Scope of agreement.">This memorandum of understanding shall:<para num="(1)">describe the existing levels of service within the District;</para>
      <para num="(2)">commit the City to the maintenance of those levels of service; and</para>
      <para num="(3)">detail the process by which the City will expend that portion of the local impact grant funds that:<para num="(i)">are provided to the City under &lt;cite data-doc="Md. Code" data-path="gsg|9-1"&gt;State Government Article § 9-1&lt;/cite&gt;A-31(a)(1)(i); but</para>
        <para num="(ii)">are not transferred directly to the Authority under &lt;cite data-path="|14|§19-3|(c)|(2)"&gt;§ 19-3(c)(2) of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; and § 9-1A-31(b)(3) of the  State Government Article.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Governing principles.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">The maintenance of existing services shall be governed by the following principles.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="No decrease in existing services; Exceptions.">Existing services may not be decreased except:<para num="(i)">as part of an overall decrease in services necessitated by changes in funding, policy, or resources; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">only in proportion to the decreases implemented elsewhere in the City.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)" heading="Citywide increases to be matched.">Any increase in services generally throughout the City shall be matched with increases in those services within the District, in proportion to the increases implemented elsewhere in the City.</para>
      <para num="(4)" heading="Services provided by indirect local impact grants.">Services provided by local impact grant funds that, as described in subsection (b)(3) of this section, are not transferred directly to the Authority under &lt;cite data-path="|14|§19-3|(c)|(2)"&gt;§ 19-3(c)(2) of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; do not constitute baseline City services.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-509</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
