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MR. ODOM AGREED THAT THEY WILL NOT DO ANYTHING TO JEOPARD- <br />IZE PIPERS VOLUNTEER SERVICES AND HAVE NO OBJECTION TO SUCH A REQUIRE- <br />MENT. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER <br />SIEBERT, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED THE ATTORNEY TO WRITE A <br />LETTER APPROVING THE ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF PEED FOR AN AIR <br />tit AMBULANCE SERVICE TO ODOM AVIATION, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE <br />BOARD IS DESIROUS FOR PIPER AIRCRAFT TO CONTINUE WITH ANY OF THEIR <br />EXISTING VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS REPORTED THAT HE HAS MET WITH REPRESENTA- <br />TIVES OF FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT TOGETHER WITH COMMISSIONER DEESON IN <br />REGARD TO INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ASSESSING A FRANCHISE FEE TO FLORIDA <br />POWER & LIGHT AS AUTHORIZED BY OUR SPECIAL ACT PASSED IN 1953 AND <br />REFERRED TO AS CHAPTER 29,154, THIS CHAPTER AUTHORIZES THE BOARD BY <br />RESOLUTION TO ISSUE A FRANCHISE TO POWER COMPANIES FOR THE USE OF <br />COUNTY RIGHTS-OF-WAY, ROADS, MAINTENANCE OF LIGHT POLES, TRANSMISSION <br />LINES, ETC. THE ATTORNEY STATED THAT FP&L HAS ACCEPTED THE COUNTY'S <br />AUTHORITY AND HAS SUPPLIED HIM WITH A COPY OF AN ORDINANCE CONSISTENT <br />WITH THE ORDINANCES PASSED IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. ATTORNEY COLLINS <br />CONTINUED THAT IT IS HIS OPINION THAT. THE COUNTY WILL NOT BE GIVING <br />A FRANCHISE AND CHARGING A FEE WHICH WILL CAUSE THE RATES OF COUNTY <br />CITIZENS TO INCREASE. HE NOTED THAT THE RATES WHICH THEY ARE PRE- <br />SENTLY PAYING INCLUDE FRANCHISE FEE WHETHER THE COUNTY ASSESSES THAT <br />FEE OR NOT AS THIS IS A STATEWIDE FORMULA. ATTORNEY COLLINS CONTIN- <br />UED THAT ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON <br />THE PASSAGE OF A RESOLUTION, THE ATTORNEY FOR FP&L REQUESTED THAT ONE <br />BE HELD, AND HE WOULD, THEREFORE, RECOMMEND THAT WE DO SO, <br />MOTION WAS MADE BY;COMMISSIONER DEESON, SECONDED BY COMMIS- <br />SIONER SCHMUCKER, TO AUTHORIZE THE ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE A PUBLIC <br />HEARING IN REGARD TO CHARGING FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT A FRANCHISE FEE. <br />COMMISSIONER LOY REQUESTED THAT THE PUBLIC NOTICE SET FORTH <br />THAT THIS WILL NOT INCREASE THE LOCAL FEES COLLECTED BY FP&L, <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE NOTED THAT IF FP&L IS ALREADY COLLECTING A <br />FRANCHISE FEE IN ALL COUNTIES, THEY ARE COLLECTING A LOT MORE THAN <br />THEY ARE PAYING OUT. <br />'i <br />29 <br />i <br />• iL [Arr f <br />Cl u 1977 �� <br />