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203 (g) The annexed territory is populated almost entirely by people whose daily business and social interest and activity is confined to the corporate limits of the City of Charlottesville and the persons owning property and residing therein enjoy practically all of the advantages.of the City street and improvements, and much protec- tion from the Police and Fire Department of the City, and their property is thereby increased in value without the payment of any taxes to the City therefor. (h) That in the territory proposed to be annexed, there is no adequate sanitary provision for the collection and disposal of refuse and garbage, with the result that not only the health of the people of the annexed territory, but also the people of the City, is jeopardized and endangered. . (i) That the area of the County of Albemarle is greatly in excess of thirty square miles, and that the annexation of said territory will not materially effect the governmental functioning of Albemarle County. (3) The City of Charlottesville hereby sets forth the terms and conditions upon which it desires to make the proposed annexation and proposes for the future management and improvement of the annexed property, the following: (a) The City of Charlottesville shall assume and provide for the reimbursement to the County of Albemarle a just proportion of any existing debt of said County, or any district therein, and also for the reimbursement to said County for the value, at the time of said annexation, of such permanent public improvements as may have been made in the territory annexed, both by way of macadamizing public roads and streets, and by way of the construction of concrete roads and streets, and by otherwise permanently im- proving roads and streets, and by constructing concrete sidewalks on public roads and streets, and by constructing and laying water mains, sewers, garbage disposal systems, fire protection facilities, bridges and any other permanent public improvement constructed and maintained by the said County at the time of annexation, as may be determined by the Court in the proceedings for annexation, the Court in the determination of such value to take into consideration the value of such public improvements to the City of Charlottesville, as well as to the said County of Albemarle, provided the cost of such public improvements is not embracedin 'the_proportion of the debt of said County of Albemarle, or any district therein, which is to be assumed and provided for by said City of Charlottesville as aforesaid; and provided, further, that the said City of Charlottes- ville shall receive credit, upon a just basis, to be determined by the Court in said proceedings for such sum, if any, as the said City may have contributed to said public improvements; and provided, further, that the authorities of the said County of Albemarle, portions of which are proposed to be annexed, shall not, between the entry of the decree of annexation and the date when the same is to become effective, make or contract to make any permanent public improvements, to be paid for by the said City of Charlottesville, without the consent of the corporate authorities of the City of Charlottesville and the supervision of the officials of said City charged with the duty of making similar public improvements within said City. Further, the City of Charlottesville shall also provide compensation to the said County of Albemarle for the value at the time of annexation, of any schoolhouse or other public building of said County located within the annexed territory, which shall not be reserved to said County in this proceeding, and like compensation for any injury to the value of the impairment of the use to the said County of any schoolhouse therein by reason of the annexation made. (e) That the taxes assessed, collected and expended during the said period of five years shall be so assessed, collected and kept that the same may be expended as hereinbefore provided in the territory, or the particular part of said territory, from which it was so collected until and unless a sum be set apart equal to twelve per centum of the assessed value at the time of annexation of the lands annexed, and when said sum shall have been so set apart, and the public improvement shall have been substantially completed, the land annexed shall be subject to the city tax rate. (f) That the City of Charlottesville will, as soon as annexation is accomplished, afford suitable garbage disposal, police and fire protection and public school facilities to the citizens residing in the annexed territory and will, with all reasonable dispatch, afford and furnish other public facilities and improvements to said citizens as provided by law. (b) That the tax rate upon the land within the annexed territory shall not be increased beyond the rate assessed by the County of Albemarle for its purposes from the time of the annexation under this Ordinance for a period of five years after such annexa- tion, except upon the petition of a majority of the voters of such territory presented to the City of Charlottesville, as provided for by Statute. (c) That all revenues derived by the City of Charlottesville from taxation in said territory during the said period of five years, either on property or from other sources including licenses, shall be wholly expended by the City of Charlottesville upon streets, sewers, light, water or other public improvements in said territory; provided, however, that at any time within the said five years the Council of the City of Charlottes- ville may, by ordinance, set apart a sum equal to twelve per centum of the assessed value, at the time of annexation, of the land annexed, or of such part thereof as may be deter- mined upon by said Council, which sum so set apart shall be wholly expended in public improvements in and for the benefit of the annexed territory, or part thereof as may be determined as aforesaid, and when said sum shall have been so set apart and said public improvements shall have been substantially completed the land annexed or part thereof, as aforesaid, shall be subject -to City tax rate, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the City treasury along with all other taxes and licenses in such territory for ' general purposes, although said five years shall not have elapsed, provided that said sum to be set apart and expended shall be reduced by the sum already expended on said improve- ments under any other plan of annexation; and provided, further, that out of the proceeds of sale of the next issue of bonds by the City of Charlottesville after such annexation the said sum equal to the said twelve per centum of the assessed value at the time of annexation of the land annexed, reduced by the sum hereinbefore mentioned, shall be set apart and expended in said territory as hereinbefore directed, unless said sum has been already so expended. (d) That all county levies imposed on persons and property within such territory for the current fiscal year in which said annexation is made, shall bq paid to the County of Albemarle. (e) That the taxes assessed, collected and expended during the said period of five years shall be so assessed, collected and kept that the same may be expended as hereinbefore provided in the territory, or the particular part of said territory, from which it was so collected until and unless a sum be set apart equal to twelve per centum of the assessed value at the time of annexation of the lands annexed, and when said sum shall have been so set apart, and the public improvement shall have been substantially completed, the land annexed shall be subject to the city tax rate. (f) That the City of Charlottesville will, as soon as annexation is accomplished, afford suitable garbage disposal, police and fire protection and public school facilities to the citizens residing in the annexed territory and will, with all reasonable dispatch, afford and furnish other public facilities and improvements to said citizens as provided by law.