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_ c ORDINANCE NO.: 2000- 035 owners of property within the boundaries of the unit. The advisory group members shall be appointed at large upon motion of the Board of County Commissioners from a list of interested individuals or nominees. Advisory group members shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of County Commissioners. All official action taken or recommendations made shall be by affirmative vote of no less than a majority of the full membership of the group. The advisory group shall offer it recommendations in writing to the Board from time to time through the office of the Public Works Director. All advisory group activities shall be subject to the Florida Sunshine Law, Florida Statute 286.011. The Board of County Commissioners shall have sole discretion to determine the final level of funding or services for any given fiscal year. SECTION 200.30.04 LEVY OF ASSESSMENTS; ADOPTION OF BUDGET 1. The Board of County Commissioners hereby authorizes a levy of a special assessment under the authority of the second sentence of Section 9 (b) Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Florida and Florida Statutes 125.01 (q) in an amount to be determined annually by the Board of County Commissioners based on an assessment per parcel/acre within the East Gifford Watershed Area Municipal Service Benefit Unit. 2. Pursuant to said authority, the Board hereby further authorizes the levying and collection of special assessments in a uniform manner for those Municipal Service Benefit Unit expenditures which are determined to provide a reasonably uniform special benefit to all those properties within the benefit unit against which such special assessment is made. 3. Special assessments authorized by this section shall be levied and a budget prepared and adopted by the County Commission at the same time and in the same manner as the Board prepares and adopts its annual budget and levies taxes as provided by law. 4. All special assessments authorized under this section shall be assessed, levied, collected, remitted to and accounted for at the same time and in the same manner as the assessments, levies, collection, and remittance of taxes to the General Fund by the County Commission as provided by law. The budget for this Benefit Unit in each year shall contain that portion of the estimated cost of providing services hereunder, including debt service, for which costs will be incurred in the given year. SECTION 200.30.05 DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS FROM LEVY OF All funds obtained by the levy of an assessment on the real property within that the boundaries of the East Gifford Watershed Area Municipal Service Benefit Unit shall be maintained a part of the Indian in a separate Code and the word account and used solely for the purpose of providing those services set forth above. SECTION 2 CODIFICATION. It is the intention of the Board of County Commissioners that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made a part of the Indian River County Code and the word