VIRGINIA BEACH, (WAVY) — For the second time in less than two months, Mayor Bobby Dyer is threatening to cancel the Something in the Water music festival for 2025 after organizers again missed a deadline.

Dyer put forward a resolution to be considered by Virginia Beach City Council on Tuesday that would send the festival an official notice of “material breach” of their sponsorship agreement inked with the city in mid-November.

By Dec. 31 2024, festival organizers were to have announced the festival’s musical lineup, while also selling tickets for the event scheduled for April 26 and 27, 2025 at the Oceanfront.

Festival organizers instead asked the city for an extension ahead of the deadline.

The deadline was originally implemented as part of several conditions in order for the city to financially support the festival, after the festival was abruptly postponed from this past October until April 26-27. Previously, Dyer had threatened to pull the plug on the event, saying the delays by SITW officials “cannot be tolerated.”

The proposed notice will give the festival organizers just five days to reveal a lineup and to start selling tickets, and Dyer is doubling-down on what he said last year about canceling the event.

“We’ve bent over backwards all last year trying to get to yes, and get to a positive result for Something in the Water,” Dyer said. “And they were the one that submitted to have the deadline for Dec. 31.”

SITW organizers did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Dyer said he has been told the festival organizers are having difficulties securing their lineup. He’s sympathetic to that, but only up to a point.

“With the cancelation and things of that nature, it did have a profound negative impact on hotels, restaurants and other things,” Dyer said. “My goal is that we do something positive, and if it doesn’t really pan out this year, let’s see if we can retool and come back stronger.”

If organizers fail to meet this new deadline, the agreement between SITW and the City of Virginia Beach will be terminated, and the city will explore alternative programming during the time the festival was supposed to have taken place.

Last year, the city had Audacy’s Oceanfront Concerts for the same weekend in April, and Dyer said the city would look for a Plan B.

Virginia Beach leaders are expected to meet Jan. 7 to discuss the proposal.