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R-1078-D Tenant Assistance. 1. Tenant Assistance Plan Contract - Contents and Form. The Tenant Assistance Plan ("TAP") contract required by EC 2.1070(f) shall be consistent with the TAP contract attached to these Rules as Exhibit 8. 2. Relocation Costs. 2.1 Condominium Special Cateaorv Tenant. The TAP contract shall obligate the condominium conversion developer to pay moving expenses of all special category tenants (as defined in subsection 2.2 of this section) in accordance with the Federal Uniform Relocation Assistance Real Property Acquisition Policies Act, as amended, Fixed Residential Moving Cost Schedule. Also, the TAP contract shall obligate the condominium conversion developer to pay elderly or disabled special category tenants a fixed sum of $500 for packing and unpacking expenses. Moving expenses, including, if applicable, packing and unpacking expenses, shall be paid to the tenant 14 days prior to the tenant's move-out date. 2.2 For purposes of this section, "special category tenant" includes any person who is elderly, disabled, or low-income (current income equal to or less than 800/0 of the median family income on a yearly basis determined for Eugene- Springfield by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development or its successor). 3. Housing Counselor Contract. If a TAP contract is required, the developer shall execute a Housing Counselor Contract obligating the developer to contract with a housing counselor, approved by the City, to assist special category tenants of the building to be converted in locating alternative housing and to act as the developer's sole agent in representing alternative housing as comparable .to special category tenants. A Housing Counselor Contract consistent with the contract attached to these Rules as Exhibit 9 shall be acceptable as to form. In determining whether a Housing Counselor Contract is sufficient, the following factors shall be considered: 3.1 The compensation paid to the counselor must be an amount sufficient to assure that the counselor will use his or her best efforts in the provision of assistance to affected tenants; 3.2 The contract must require the counselor to ascertain the particular housing needs of affected tenants and to use reasonable efforts to locate housing which is not only comparable, but tailored to fulfill those particular needs; 3.3 The contract must require that the developer will not discharge the housing counselor merely because of a disagreement between the developer and counselor over the status of a tenant as a special category tenant or the status of a dwelling unit or housing as comparable or not, an opinion on the Administrative Order - Page 4