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Section III Aesessment Notice; objection to Assessment Each Taxpayer subject to the SWDD fee shall be notified of the assessment through the annual Assessment notice issued by the Property Appraiser's office. Any owner who wishes to contest the assessment against their property shall have the right to confer with the SWDD staff informally to correct any errors, and if there are still unresolved matters, the property owner shall have the right to file a petition with the SWDD Board, using the procedures of Chapter 194 F.S., dealing with the Property Appraisal Adjustment Board, except that the adjusting board shall be the SWDD Board rather that the Property Appraisal Adjustment Board. The petition form "Exhibit All attached hereto, may be obtained in the County Administration Building at 1640 25th Street, Vero Beach, Florida, 32960, in the office of the Clerk to Board of County Commission. The owner must file the formal petition form within 25 days after the Assessment notice is mailed. The form must be filed, along with applicable fees, with the Clerk's office at the same address above. The SWDD Adjustment Board shall meet with the owner not earlier than 30 days and not later than 45 days after the mailing of the Assessment notices. To obtain relief before the SWDD, a property owner must show by preponderance of evidence that his property, by having SWDD available, does not receive benefits at least equal to the disposal charge against his property whether the assessable property generates solid waste or not. Preponderance of evidence shall include but not be limited to records and receipts of recyclables and waste generation over the past year for the parcel or general category or classification within which the property is assessed. The filing fee for the petition shall be as provided in the schedule of Rates and Charges in Attachment 2 of this Resolution. The filing fees collected by the Clerk shall be made payable to the Solid Waste Disposal District. The fees shall be allocated and utilized to defray the costs incurred in connection with the administration and operations of the SWDD. Credit for recycling may be applied to the assessment on commercial properties that recycle their wastestream through avenues other than the SWDD. As such any wastestream that is recycled through the operations of the SWDD will not qualify for recycling credit on the annual assessment. Credit may be granted based upon substantial verification by the property owner of materials recycled during the one year period between January 1 and December 31 prior to the tax year the annual assessment becomes due. Substantial verification shall consist of receipts with weights of materials recycled. Recycling credit shall be applied only for those materials normally generated on the parcel and specifically identified by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as meeting the credit categories for their 30% recycling mandate. Recycling credit shall not apply to those parcels that are in the business of recycling nor will .it apply to materials collected from others. The amount of credit for recycling shall not reduce the annual assessment for a business or parcel below an applied readiness -to -use fee or the amount that would be charged through vacancy credit procedures, The SWDD may automatically provide recycling credit to those properties for which monthly or quarterly reports of materials recycled have been received and are on record with the SWDD. Recycling credit for commercial parcels on which no reports or records have been received may be provided only upon formal request by the property owner. Vacancy credit may be applied to commercial properties based upon the vacancy status of the property for a period of one year between January 1 - December 31 prior to the tax year the annual assessment becomes due. Credit will be applied I only upon the property owner providing substantial verification that the property was vacant for a period greater than 180 consecutive -12- f .. i'. i- �eSY I- i.