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R-2020-07 MSV RENT FORGIVENESS REBATE PROGRAM (“Program”) I. Purpose: Due to the effects of the recent Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency, and the Emergency Orders related thereto, the Village’s longstanding investments in its downtown 2nd Avenue Business District are being threatened and many businesses are in severe financial distress. The purpose of this program is to seek to help alleviate such distress by encouraging, and rewarding property owners for, the granting of rent forgiveness concessions to commercial tenants in need. II. Eligibility: The benefits of this program shall be available to any owner of property within the Special Taxing Area previously established for the “Downtown Village of Miami Shores for Sanitary Sewers and Water Main Project”: (a) who is a commercial Landlord having commercial tenants at such property (hereinafter “Landlord”), and (b) who pays Sewer Maintenance Assessments (the “Assessments”) to be assessed hereafter. III. Terms of Rebate(s): A. Eligible Landlords, who pay such Assessments, may obtain from the Village, rebates up to the full amount of such Assessments paid in each tax year, equal to the full amount(s) of rent abated and forgiven (hereinafter “Rent Concessions”) for commercial tenants at the property for which such Assessments were paid, whose written leases were in effect before the Florida Governor’s declaration of a COVID Emergency on March 9, 2020, upon the following terms: 1. Such rent concessions must occur (or be irrevocably committed for by way of a legally enforceable writing executed by such Landlord and Tenant), within 90 days of Village Adoption of this Program. (This deadline may be extended by the Village Manager upon good cause shown, but Landlords are strongly encouraged to grant such Rent Concessions with all due dispatch). 2. Rent Concessions must be evidenced by documented proof thereof (submitted to the Village) in the form of Affidavits under oath, by both the Landlord and the Tenant, setting forth the effective date of the commercial lease, the detailed terms and total amount of the Rent Concessions, and confirming that the Rent Concessions have either already occurred or are irrevocably committed to by the Landlord. Such documentation together with a Rebate Application (on a form to be created by the Village Administration) shall be submitted to the Village no later than 60 days following Landlord’s payment of the Assessment sought to be rebated, in order to be eligible for this Program. By submitting such forms eligible Landlords can seek rebates for any Rent Concession timely granted under § II(A) 1 above, and if eligible Rent Concessions are timely granted in EXHIBIT A Page 2 of 2 amounts in excess of the Assessment paid on the property for tax year 2021 (i.e. tax bill generated in November 2020) such Landlord may seek a rebate up to the full amount of the Assessment paid for tax year 2021, and then later seek a subsequent rebate for the excess rent concession(s) above that amount upon payment of the Assessment on the property paid for tax year 2022 (i.e. tax bill generated in November 2021), up to the full amount of such tax year 2022 Assessments paid. 3. In no event shall the total of any rebates paid to a property owner under this Program exceed the full amount of total Assessments paid for the applicable property for tax years 2021 and 2022. 4. All Rebate Applications shall be submitted to and reviewed by the Village Manager (or the Manager’s designee) and shall be approved, if complete and fully in compliance with all Program terms, within 10 days of receipt. The decision of the Village Manager as to completeness and compliance shall be final, except that such decision may be reversed by majority vote of the Village Council. 5. This Program creates no vested rights in favor of any person or entity, and creates no cause of action nor lawful claim on the party of anyone. 6. Any false or misleading representations by any Landlord or Tenant in any Application submitted under this Program may be punished in accordance with law, and any party found to have made such false or misleading representations shall forfeit any eligibility for any rebates under this Program.