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Section 2.5 The City will serve as the customer contact for initiation of residential unit service, and will relay service initiation requests to the Contractor. ARTICLE 3 PAYMENTS Section 3.1 Rates and Billing 3.1.1 The Contractor will hill the City for service rendered to residential nnits during a month withiu teu calendar days following the end of the month, and the City will pay the Contractor on or before the 30th day following the date of each bill. Payments after the 30~h day will accrue interest at 1.5% per month, or the maxiinum interest rate allowed by law, whichever is less. Such hilling and payment will be based on the price rates and schedules set Forth in subsection 3.1.3 of this Contract. 3.1.2 Tbe rate charged by the Contractor will be as follows: $12.35 per msideotial unit per month Section 3.2 Calcnlation of Payments for Residential Units 3.2.1 Payment for each mouth's service will be determined by applying the contract unit price for collections to the actnal number of occupied residential dwelling units within the contract area during the immediately preceding month as shown by the City's utility billing records. 3.2.2 New acconnts added after the first day of a month will be counted as having received service for a frill month. Accoants discontiaued during a given month will be counted as not having received service For that month, as determined by the above described reports. 3.2.3 If the Contractor disagrees with the City's records in the number of uuits serviced for a given month, the Contractor will specify the nature of the disagreement, the address(es) of the unit(s) in qnestion, the type of service being provided, and the date such service began or ended. The Director will investigate reported discrepancies and confirm or deny tbe Contractor's request. The Director will decide the issue in a fair and reasonable manner, and the Director's decision will be final. The Contractor wilI continue to provide collection services pending resolution of disputes. 3.2.4 The Contractor may request in writing that payments due or to become due to it be assigned to a bank or other financing institution, provided that prior written approval is obtained through the City Manager, and payment by the City is made only to one party. Any assignment not in conformance with this provision will be null and void as to the City. A fee of $100.00 per contract, per request, will be charged to the Contractor for administrative costs in processing each assignment under this paragraph. Upon paymeut of such fee to the City, contract payments will he modified to reflect the cbanged payee name and address. Section 3.3 Modification of Rates 3.3.1 The rate charged by the Coutractor tbr the second and subsequent years of the contract term may be adjusted upward or downward to reflect tbe net pereentage change from the previous year in the Consumer Price Index for Urbao Wage Earners and ClericaI Workers (all items), and the Consumer Price 13