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System will be operated as an enterprise fund. The County will <br />segregate for accounting purposes all the System's accounts, moneys <br />and investments. The County will provide for the System's assets, <br />liabilities and results of operations to be presented in the County's <br />annual audit as a separate enterprise fund, in accordance with <br />generally accepted accounting principles. The County will annually <br />adopt a separate budget for the System in accordance with the County's <br />usual budgetary process. The County will keep accurate records and <br />accounts of all items of costs and of all expenditures relating to the <br />System, and of the System Revenues collected and the application of <br />System Revenues. Such records and accounts will be open to any Party's <br />inspection at any reasonable time upon reasonable notice.. <br />System will be operated on a self-supporting basis. The County <br />will establish and maintain a system of rates,. fees and charges for <br />the use of, and for the services provided by, the System which is <br />reasonably designed to pay in full all the costs (and only the costs) <br />of carrying out the County's responsibilities under this Agreement and <br />the Solid Waste Management Plan and- Policies, including, without <br />limitation, (1) costs of disposing of Solid Waste, (2) costs of <br />collecting, processing and disposing of County Recyclables, (3) to the <br />extent permitted by law, costs of providing public benefits determined <br />to be provided pursuant to Part 6, and (4) costs of solid waste <br />reduction activities. Subject only to the specific limitations set <br />forth in this Agreement, the County may revise any rates, fees and <br />charges at any time and as often as it shall deem appropriate. <br />Limitations on Material Financial Changes. Notwithstanding any <br />other provision of this Agreement, the County shall not put into <br />effect any Material Financial Change unless the County first obtains <br />the consent of all Parties. It will be each Town's obligation to <br />determine whether any change or proposed change to the Solid Waste <br />Management Plan and Policies is a Material Financial Change with <br />respect to such Town within ten Business Days of receiving notice of <br />the change or proposed change, and to notify the County within five <br />additional Business Days if the Town determines that such change. or <br />proposed change is a Material Financial Change. The provisions of this <br />paragraph are independent of the further provisions of this Part 4 <br />concerning rates, fees and charges. <br />Mixed Solid Waste Tipping Fee. (1) The County may increase <br />the Mixed Solid Waste Tipping Fee from time to time in its discretion <br />with at least 30 days' notice of the increase to all other Parties. <br />The County may not, however, increase the Mixed Solid Waste Tipping <br />Fee during or at the beginning of any Fiscal Year to a fee that <br />exceeds the Mixed Solid Waste Tipping Fee in effect at the end of the <br />preceding Fiscal Year by more than 10~, without the prior consent of <br />all the other Parties. Further, the Parties intend and agree that the <br />County shall endeavor to adjust the Mixed Solid Waste Tipping Fee only <br />annually, with changes becoming effective only at the beginning of a <br />Fiscal Year. <br />5 <br />