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COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ALSO FEELS THERE IS NO DISCRIMINATION. MR. WOLD SAID IF MR. OVERSTREET WOULD SIT DOWN AND DISCUSS IT, HE WOULD BE GLAD TO DO SO., IF 9ID-FLORIDA HAD BEEN GRANTED THE REQUEST THEY ORIGINALLY ASKED FOR, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 1/2 OF WHAT IT IS TODAY, COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER STATED THAT HE CAN UNDERSTAND THEIR PROBLEM, BUT THERE IS NO WAY THE BOARD CAN CHANGE MR. VOLD'S RATES AS THE FRANCHISE IS NOW SET. MR. WOLD STATED THAT THIS SAME PROBLEM OCCURRED IN SARASOTA COUNTY. IT WAS BROUGHT TO COURT, AND THE COURT THREW OUT THE COMMISSION-' ERAS NEW RATE, THERE HAS BEEN A PRECEDENT SET IN THE STATE, COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED IF IT IS FAIR THAT A PERSON LIVING IN A CONVENTIONAL HOUSE SHOULD PAY MORE THAN THE PEOPLE LIVING IN A MOBILE HOME. CHAIRMAN LOY STATED THAT ROCKRIDGE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE- COME A PART OF THE CITY OF VERO BEACH WATER SYSTEM, AND THE PEOPLE CHOSE NOT TO GO THAT ROUTE. IT WAS THEIR DECISION, COMMISSIONER WODTKE STATED THAT THE BOARD DID APPROVE THE RATES, BUT THE RATE APPROVED WAS MUCH TOO HIGH AND HE FEELS THERE IS A VALID REASON FOR COMMERCIAL RATES. MR, WOLD ASKED MR. OVERSTREET IF HE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN DISCUSSING THE SOUTHGATE VILLAGE WATER PROBLEMS. MR. OVERSTREET STATED THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS GRANTED MID -FLORIDA UTILITIES A RATE INCREASE LAST YEAR AND TO LOWER THE WATER RATES WOULD BE DISCRIMINATORY AGAINST MANY MORE PEOPLE, HE DID NOT THINK, AS A UTILITY COMPANY, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISCUSS THIS AS THEY ARE SERVICING APPROXIMATELY 900 CUSTOMERS AND HE COULD NOT ARBITRARILY CHANGE THE RATES. ANY OF THE 900 CUSTOMERS COULD COME ALONG AND REQUEST LOWER RATES, THE BOARD DISCUSSED AN OPTION AVAILABLE TO MR, WOLD WOULD BE TO CHANGE HIS SYSTEM FROM ONE METER TO EACH HOME BEING METERED AND PAYING THEIR OWN BILL. • -16- Kms.. Boo23 acE296 sgp 1 U 1975