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process is to comply with the Act provisions regarding public notice and hearing prior to establishing the benefit assessments for the following Fiscal Year. City shall not adopt, modify, or otherwise amend any Fiscal Year budget of the District that is inconsistent in any way with said Fiscal Year's budget as agreed to and presented by the District Board except in the case of a written majority protest (regarding elimination or modification of any specific budget item) from business owners which will pay 50% or more of the assessments proposed to be levied as to any specific budget item pursuant to Streets and Highways Code Section 36525(14. In such case the written protest regarding any specific budget item shall be grounds to eliminate or modify said expenditure from the District's proposed budget pursuant to the written protest. SECTION 2 -14 -155. DECISIONS REGARDING EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS. Decisions of the District Board regarding expenditure of all funds generated under this program shall be final. SECTION 2 -14 -160. DISTRICT PROCEEDS DO NOT OFFSET CITY SERVICES. City specifically finds and declares that the funds derived from the District shall not be used to offset or diminish current maintenance, capital improvement programs, including but not limited to, public property and sidewalk cleaning, street cleaning and maintenance, tree maintenance, restroom cleaning, and maintenance. The City declares its intent to provide at least the same level and standard of maintenance and repair of public property within the District providing City funds are available from year to year. SECTION 2 -14 -165. DISESTABLISI-IMENT OF THE DISTRICT. Proceeding to disestablish the District shall be initiated by the City Council following the presentation of a petition to the City Council signed by business owners paying 50% or more of the assessments levied in the District. Proceedings to disestablish the District shall follow the procedures set forth in Streets and Highways Code Section 36550. The City Council shall disestablish the District if, following the public hearing prescribed in Section 36550(b), written protests are not withdrawn as to reduce the protests below the 50% level. In the event of disestablishment of the District, remaining revenues of the District shall be refunded to paying business owners in a pro -rata manner calculated in the same manner as was used to establish the most recent assessments applied in the District. SECTION 2 -14 -170. DISTRICT BALLOT. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2 -14 -165, the Board shall conduct a neutral ballot of all businesses within the District no later than March 31, 2001, to determine whether or not the District shall be disestablished. The results of the ballot shall be presented to the City Council. Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance, it being expressly declared that this ordinance and each section, subsection, 6