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BEACH COUNTY THEIR PROCEDURE USED IN ISSUING OF PERMITS TO CARRY A CONCEALED FIREARM AND PRESENTED IT TO THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR. THE BOARD AGREED TO MEET SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1975, TUESDAY, AT 3:30 O'CLOCK A.M. TO DISCUSS BUDGETS, THE COUNTY ADMIKISTRATOR INFORMED THE BOARD THAT AT THE MEETING OF JULY 9, 1975, A LETTER WAS RECEIVED FROM ERBE S. TOLD, OWNER OF SOUTH - GATE VILLAGE, CONCERNING THE WATER RATES. THE BOARD DISCUSSED THIS LETTER AND INSTRUCTED MR, JENNINGS TO WRITE CARL OVERSTREET OF THE PROBLEM AND REQUEST HE ATTEND A MEETING WITH THE ADMINISTRATOR, THE ATTORNEY TO THE BOARD AND MR, WOLD. AT A SUBSEQUENT MEETING MR. JENNINGS SPOKE TO '1R. OVERSTREET OF THIS PROBLEM, AND HE WAS INFORMED THAT MR. OVERSTREET HAD NEVER RECEIVED THE LETTER. ANOTHER LETTER DATED AUGUST 26TH WAS MAILED TO MR, OVERSTREET, AND MR, JENNINGS WAS INFORMED THAT HE COULD NOT GET TO VERO BEACH, MR, JENNINGS AGAIN WROTE TO MR, OVERSTREET ASKING HIM WHEN HE COULD BE IN VERO BEACH IN ORDER TO SET UP A MEETING. A MEETING WAS HELD WITH MR, OVERSTREET ON SEPTEMBER 2ND, MR, WOLD HAD STATED IM HIS LETTER OF JUNE 16, 1975 THAT THE VOLUME USERS OF WATER WERE, IN HIS OPINION, INADVERTANTLY OVERLOOKED WHEN MID FLORIDA UTILITIES WAS GRANTED AN INCREASE IN WATER RATES, THEY WERE PAYING 3N PER 1,000 GALLONS, AND IT WAS INCREASED TO $1,00 PER 1,000 GALLONS, A 333% INCREASE. CARL OVERSTREET, DISTRICT MANAGER FOR GENERAL WATER WORKS, (MID -FLORIDA UTILITIES IS A SUBSIDIARY OF GENERAL WATER J'!ORKS) STATED THAT [IID -FLORIDA UTILITIES IS OPPOSED TO ANY REDUCTION IN RATES TO THE HIGH VOLUME USERS BECAUSE THE COST TO PUMP THE FIRST GALLON OF WATER IS THE SAME AS THE LAST GALLON OF WATER PUMPED. THEY HAVE 13 CUSTOMERS THAT USE OVER 25,000 GALLONS PER MONTH; 16 OF THESE AVERAGE 31,000 GALLONS PER MONTH; ONE IS AT 350,000 GALLONS PER MONTH AND ONE AT 790,000 GALLONS PER MONTH, WHICH IS SOUTHGATE VILLAGE, THEY ARE AGAINST ANY RATES THAT WOULD BE DISCRIMINATORY AGAINST THE CONSUMER, HIGH VOLUME USERS SHOULD PAY THEIR COST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE AND NOT GET A REDUCTION IN RATES, MR. WOLD READ HIS ORIGINAL LETTER DATED JUNE 16TH TO THE BOARD. HE CONTINUED THAT THE VOLUME USER OF WATER WAS OVERLOOKED WHEN AN.IN- CREASE IN WATER RATES WAS APPROVED, IN HIS OPINION THERE SHOULD BE A SEP 1 0 1975 BOOK23 pASf294 L