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CHAIRMAN WODTKE DID NOT FEEL IT WOULD BE FEASIBLE BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO BE IN THE WATER BUSINESS IN THE COUNTY ON A VERY LARGE SCALE. HE NOTED THAT INDIAN RIVER UTILITIES IS HAVING GREAT PROBLEMS WITH THE AREAS THEY ALREADY HAVE AND IN VIEW OF THEIR MANY PROBLEMS WITH THE DER, HE FELT IT WOULD BE VERY UNLIKELY THAT THEY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO EXPAND THEIR FACILITIES IN ANY EVENT. MR. HARKINS STATED THAT HIS COMPANY HAS DONE A LARGE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH TO DETERMINE WHAT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO BRING THIS PLANT UP TO SNUFF TO SERVICE THESE DEVELOPMENTS, AND HE BELIEVED IT CAN BE DONE, CHAIRMAN WODTKE AGREED THIS EVENTUALLY MIGHT BE THE ANSWER, BUT STATED THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME THE COUNTY CANNOT TAKE THE CHANCE OF PUTTING ADDITIONAL COST INTO A PROPOSED COUNTYWIDE SYSTEM, ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY CLOSED THEPUBIC HEARING. COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER EXPRESSED REGRET THAT WE HAVE TO ESTABLISH A MORATORIUM AND HOPED THAT SIX MONTHS WILL PROVE SUFFICIENT TO.STUDY THE WATER MATTER AND DETERMINE WHAT IS PRACTICAL. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NOTED THAT ONE THING WE HAVE NOT ALLUDED TO IS THE FACT THAT WE ARE UNDER COURT ORDER TO REVIEW ` OUR FRANCHISE PROCEDURE AND THE CONDUCTING OF RATE HEARINGS, WHICH ALSO MUST BE TAKEN INTO.CONSIDERATION IN ESTABLISHING THIS MORATORIUM. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, TO ADOPT ORDINANCE No, 78-18 AND TO INSTRUCT THE ADMINISTRATOR TO SEND COPIES TO EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE APPLICATION FOR A SEWER ALLOCATION, CHAIRMAN WODTKE INQUIRED IF TRANSFERS ARE COVERED IN THE MORATORIUM, AND ATTORNEY COLLINS TOOK THE POSITION THAT TRANSFERS OF.EXISTING FRANCHISES, WHERE NO -ENLARGEMENT OR ENCROACHMENT IS INVOLVED, SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ON THEIR OWN MERITS. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR -THE QUESTION, IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. 23 JL 0 1�7� 443 ®-