Annual Operating Budget Manager shall, on or before December 20 in each calendar year during the Term, deliver to SNH TRS for SNH TRS’s approval, an annual operating budget for the Facility for the next calendar year (the “Annual Operating Budget”) which shall include separate line items for Capital Replacements and set forth an estimate, on a monthly basis, of Gross Revenues and Facility Expenses, together with an explanation of anticipated changes to Resident charges, payroll rates and positions, non-wage cost increases, the proposed methodology and formula employed by Manager in allocating shared Facility Expenses, and all other factors differing from the then current calendar year. The Annual Operating Budget shall be accompanied by a narrative description of operating objectives and assumptions. If SNH TRS does not approve an Annual Operating Budget or any portion thereof, it shall do so, to the extent practicable, on a line item basis. Manager and SNH TRS shall cooperate to resolve disputed items, provided if the Annual Operating Budget is not approved by SNH TRS within thirty (30) days of SNH TRS’s receipt, Manager shall operate under the expired Annual Operating Budget until a new Annual Operating Budget is approved, provided that line items for Impositions, insurance premiums and utilities shall be the amounts actually incurred for such items. If agreement on the Annual Operating Budget cannot be reached within forty-five (45) days of SNH TRS’s receipt (which time may be extended upon mutual agreement of the parties), the matter shall be resolved by arbitration. The Annual Operating Budget as approved by SNH TRS, or as resolved by arbitration, will be the “Approved Budget” for the applicable calendar year. Manager will obtain SNH TRS’s prior approval for any expenditure which will, or is reasonably expected to, result in a variance of five percent (5%) or more of any Approved Budget. For that portion of the Term ending December 31, [2017], except as otherwise agreed by SNH TRS and Manager, the Approved Budget will be the budget of the prior manager of the Facility, a copy of which has been previously provided to Manager.
