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FINANCE OFFICER BARTON STATED THAT IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET
<br />AS IT STANDS FOR 1978-79 WE ARE TALKING REVENUE SOURCES OF $11,671,400,
<br />OF THAT TOTAL, 33,24% COMES FROM AD VALOREM TAXES, OR $3,879,452, PER
<br />THE.TAX COLLECTOR'S ESTIMATES, 119,85, IS IN INCORPORATED AREAS AND
<br />50,415% IS IN UNINCORPORATED AREAS, THIS WOULD RESULT IN $1,923,626
<br />BEING GENERATED FROM THE INCORPORATED AREAS, AND THIS FIGURE
<br />REPRESENTS 16,48% OF ALL REVENUES,
<br />MAYOR FLOOD FELT THAT THE $163,000 WOULD BE ABOUT 8% OF
<br />WHAT THE INCORPORATED AREAS ARE PAYING, AND REITERATED THAT HE JUST
<br />WANTS TO KNOW WHERE THIS WAS SPENT.
<br />FINANCE OFFICER 'BARTON THEN REVIEWED IN DETAIL THE
<br />PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1978-79 GOING OVER ALL THE DEPARTMENTS AND
<br />SERVICES INCLUDED, (LEGISLATIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE, PROPERTY APPRAISER,
<br />TAX COLLECTOR, CLERK, THE COURTS, POLICE PROTECTION, FIRE PROTECTION,
<br />ETC.) AND EXPLAINED HOW THESE EXPENSES ARE.ALLOCATED, I.E. ON A
<br />POPULATION BASIS, LAND AREA BASIS, VALUATION BASIS, ETC, FINANCE
<br />OFFICER BARTON NOTED THAT WHILE 16,48% OF COUNTY REVENUES ARE
<br />COLLECTED FRgM THE INCORPORATED AREAS, 20.643% IS EXPENDED ON THE
<br />INCORPORATED AREAS,
<br />'MAYOR -FLOOD AGREED THAT THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT DOES COME
<br />UP WHEN THEY ARE CALLED, BUT HE FELT THE SEBASTIAN CITY POLICE TAKE
<br />CARE OF MOST OF THEIR PROBLEMS AND THAT THEY FAR OFFSET THE COST
<br />ASSESSED FOR POLICE PROTECTION.
<br />ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT ALL THE SERVICES MUST BE
<br />CONSIDERED SUCH AS PROCESS SERVING, FELONY INVESTIGATION, ETC.,
<br />AND FURTHER NOTED THAT ANOTHER THING TO BE CONSIDERED IS THAT THE
<br />BENEFIT IS NOT ALWAYS IMMEDIATELY WITHIN THE CITY, AND SINCE THE
<br />SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT PROVIDES -SERVICES THAT PREVENT LAWLESSNESS,
<br />IT BENEFITS THE CITY INDIRECTLY,
<br />MAYOR FLOOD DISCUSSED FINES AND FORFEITURES, HE NOTED THAT
<br />ALTHOUGH THEY ARE GENERATING $66,000 THEY STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR
<br />COPIES, COURT COSTS, ETC,
<br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT POINTED OUT THAT THE FINES GO BACK
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<br />TO -THE CITY.
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