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State Department- of Revenue based on the same formula used to distribute the Constitutional Gas Tax. In fiscal year 1989-98 1991-92, the county received $4297896 379,381 from this tax. This revenue must be used for county transportation related expenditures. Traffic Impact Fees Unlike the gas taxes, traffic impact fee revenue is a local source of revenue. In 1986, Tthe Board of County Commissioners 1n-1986 adopted traffic or road impact fees on applicable to all new development in the county. As stated in Table 13.3, the county collected approximately $274 1.9 million in traffic impact fee revenues in fiscal year 1989-98 1991-92. This revenue must be used only for new roadway improvements in the county. These fees are designed to pay for new or future infrastructure needs and cannot be used to pay for operating expenses. Enterprise Funds (Water, Sewer, Solid Waste) Capital improvements identified &in the Potable Water, Sanitary Sewer and Solid Waste Sub -Elements and-tip-�,'a�ri- e-1--Fmgroyemer&s Element are infrastructure investments to be made by the County. Some of these improvements are funded by revenues derived from charges for services and other miscellaneous revenue -mtrat�-are charges where the revenue is directly earmarked for potable water, sanitary sewer and solid waste improvements. These --revenues The County's water, sewer, and solid waste operations are categorized as enterprise funds. As discussed in previous sections of this element, enterprise funds are funds which pay for the cost of their operations and capital improvements from user fees/charges and do not receive funding from general county revenues. Therefore, these funds are self-supporting and operate much like a private enterprise. Table 13.4 provides a summary of the funding revenues received from by the potable water, sanitary sewer and solid waste enterprise funds for fiscal years 1985-86 through 1989-98 1991-92. As indicated in Table 13.4, the charges for services funding category has consistently generally increased through the five seven year period.