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771 <br />CITY COUNCIL WORKSIIOP (Cont'd) <br />entities which own land in that area and with private individuals <br />if necessary in -the county north .of the airport along the sand <br />ridge. <br />Mr. Grosh pointed out that the cost of transmitting the.raw water <br />to treatment would be less expensive if the lines did not have to <br />cross paved streets. This was his reason for suggesting negotiation <br />to the north of the airport as well as the publicly -owned land within <br />the City. <br />Council asked what the host was for putting in raw water from the <br />City cemetery for example.. A 16" pipe line will flow 44- MGD and <br />costs at least 9$24.00 per foot for such a line. It was estimated <br />a half -million dollars would be needed for transmission lines and <br />wells if put on the land from the City nursery and cemetery extending <br />out through the, school and recreation property to the Junior High. <br />Mr. Little stated that a properly designed impact fee would -help <br />lower the amount needed in a bond issue for future expansion of the <br />water treatment plant and the wells and transmission lines. It was <br />stated that an entity ought to build a water plant south of the <br />City. The Hibiscus airport site was suggested as a potential area <br />with good water quality with a sub -aqueous crossing at 12th Street <br />to solve the water supply needs on the south beach areas with <br />interchange agreements through the City of Vero Beach water facilities. <br />The Mayor stated as a sum -up of the discussion that the City realizes <br />that our present commitment requires every available water source <br />that we have. The policy of this Council is to accept Mr. Palmer's <br />statement of our service area and accept those as our present com- <br />mitments for water service. Mr. Lyons added that we have outlined <br />the service area and at the moment our requirements exceed our <br />ability to produce by the year 1990. <br />Adding to his comments on his opinion that the City's service areas <br />do not go south of the Moorings, Mr. Palmer stated that the county <br />had entered into a franchise agreement with an entity in 1974. He <br />stated that the franchise agreement would turn over facilities which <br />would be installed to the county when the county took over that <br />service territory, and that the county in signing the 1974 franchise <br />agreement contemplated taking the service territories south of -'L-,h-- <br />Moorings <br />heMoorings as their service territory. Mr. Palmer stated that if the <br />area south of the Moorings was the exclusive territory of the City, <br />how could the county have knowingly entered into this franchise <br />agreement and admitted that it was not the City's service territory. <br />Mr. Palmer stated that the City has never had distribution responsi- <br />bility in the area south of the Moorings, that the only responsibility <br />we ever had prior to Annex No. 1 was to give the county water for the <br />county to put in facilities to supply that area and that was tapped <br />at 1.3 MGD by the Annex. The City has met that cap so we have no <br />further responsibility to supply water to that area other than the <br />1,000 one -inch equivalents limited to the geographical area we are <br />committed to which is 1,245 acres. <br />Mr. Palmer stated that the City is only committed to those 400 one - <br />inch equivalents in the land area outside of the Moorings. If a man <br />has a piece of property one lot removed that was not reserved with <br />a tap, the City is not committed to serve that lot. We are committed <br />to the Moorings property area for the 600 one -inch equivalents and <br />there is a balance yet to be used on that of around 450 one -inch <br />equivalents. He stated that the administration doesn't know yet <br />how that will break out between 1", 3/4, 5/8, etc. meter sizes, but <br />that the City can enact an ordinance on sizes of water meters and <br />make it applicable to the Moorings area to control the size of the <br />tap that a landowner can get depending on his land area. He stated <br />that the City has this authority under section 130 of the Florida <br />Statutes to enact ordinances"which are applicable within our service <br />territories within a five -mile radius. <br />Mr. Little asked for a clarification, <br />City limits who does not nlro:idy have <br />be served by the City. Mayor Scurlock <br />-3- <br />asking if anyone south of the <br />a writer commitment will not <br />agreed that was the policy. <br />CC w1:;4P /1/25/713 <br />800K34 w!) 7 <br />