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TIME SOME DISCREPANCIES AROSE INVOLVING DEPOSIT REQUIREMENTS, AND A <br />REVIEW OF THE RATE STRUCTURE THE COMMISSION HAD APPROVED REVEALED THAT <br />DEPOSITS HAD NOT BEEN INCLUDED, RESOLUTION No. 76-32 APPROVING THE <br />TRANSFER OF THE ASSIGNMENT TO TREASURE COAST UTILITIES AND RESOLUTION No, <br />76-33 APPROVING THE INCREASE OF RATES HAVE REMAINED UNSIGNED FROM THAT <br />TIME UNTIL NOW SO THE PROBLEM COULD BE STRAIGHTENED OUT, ATTORNEY COLLINS <br />NOTED THAT TREASURE COAST UTILITIES HAS NOW MADE APPLICATION TO THE BOARD <br />FOR ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING TO.TAKE CARE OF THESE MINOR DISCREPANCIES, <br />THE ATTORNEY INFORMED THE BOARD THAT ATTORNEY HENDERSON RE1,1ESENTING <br />TREASURE COAST UTILITIES PREPARED A NOTICE FOR THE NEW PUBLIC HEARING AND <br />DELIVERED IT TO THE ADMINISTRATORS OFFICE FOR APPROVAL, BUT A PROBLEM <br />HAS ARISEN IN.REGARD TO THE WORDING AS THE ADMINISTRATOR FEELS THIS SHOULD <br />BE AN AMENDMENT TO A FRANCHISE THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY AMENDED, AND NOT AN <br />AMENDMENT TO THE SOUTHERN GULF UTILITIES FRANCHISE, SINCE THE BOARD HAS <br />NOT SIGNED THE RESOLUTION, IT WOULD SEEM THIS IS ACTUALLY MORE -JUST <br />CORRECTING A SITUATION AND A FIRST AMENDMENT RATHER THAN A SECOND AMENDMENT, <br />GEORGE MCKENNA, ASSISTANT .OUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, STATED THAT THE <br />MINUTES SHOW THE rRANCHISE WAS TRANSFERRED TO TREASURE COAST UTILITIES IN <br />MAY OF THIS YEAR AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE RATES WERE APPROVED FOR AN INCREASE, <br />THEY, THEREFORE, FEEL THAT THE FRANCHISE BELONGS TO TREASURE COAST <br />UTILITIES AND THAT RATES THAT WERE APPROVED BY THE BOARD SHOULD BE THE ONES <br />CHANGED RATHER THAN THE ORIGINAL RATES OF SOUTHERN GULF UTILITIES, HE <br />ALSO NOTED THAT IF A FRANCHISE IS NOT ACCEPTED WITHIN SIXTY DAYS, IT BE- <br />COMES NULL AND VOID, HE FELT THESE POINTS SHOULD BE RESOLVED BEFORE <br />ADVERTISING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING, <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE STATED THAT HE BELIEVED THE MATTER OF THE <br />DELAYED ACCEPTANCE CAN BE TAKEN CARE OF AT THE PUBLIC HEARING, <br />ATTORNEY HENDERSON NOTED THAT HE'FEELS THE FRANCHISC IS STILL <br />CALLED THE SOUTHERN GULF UTILITIES I'JATER & SEWER FRANCHISE, AND WITH <br />REGARD TO THE ACCEPTANCE, HE WAS NOT AWARE THAT THEY HAD TO FILE ANYTHING <br />TO ACCEPT IT, BUT WILL ACCEPT IT IN WRITING IF NECESSARY, <br />COMMISSIONER LOY ASKED HOW THE NOTICE CAN INDICATE TO THE <br />PEOPLE THAT WILL BE AFFECTED THAT THIS IS NOT A REAUEST FOR DIFFERENT <br />RATES, AND ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED THAT INDIVIDUAL NOTICES WILL BE MAILED <br />OUT EXPLAINING THE SITUATION, <br />0 <br />27 <br />NOV 171976 P �, '27 py,�:.252 <br />