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meltdown facing Florida and the County, and spoke about how other counties are off -setting <br />their impact fees. <br />(Vice Chairman Davis departed the Workshop at 4:15 p.m.) <br />Attorney Wright thought the Board should be seriously looking at emergency meetings <br />to establish an emergency economic stimulus package for the County, to stop the decline here. <br />He thereafter responded to questions from Commissioner Wheeler. <br />Joseph Paladin, President of Black Swan Consulting, and a member of the Task Force <br />review group, spoke regarding the Tindale- Oliver Report, and said they all agreed that those <br />numbers and the rationale for those numbers were flawed, and could not be justified. He thought <br />a re -analysis of the original report was needed. He also argued that when we raised impact fees <br />the last time, we all supported it because we thought it was best for our County; now is a <br />different time, and is not what is best for our County. He said the last time we raised impact fees <br />we did not realize the cumulative effect raising the fees would have on commercial development. <br />He believed that based on the Tindale -Oliver Report, the Duncan Report "could not come out <br />right." He thought we needed to hold off on raising impact fees and conduct more reviews and <br />in-depth studies. <br />Brian Curley, 4101 Ocean Drive, and a member of the Task Force review group, did not <br />support the increase in impact fees. He thought all costs are passed to end users, which means <br />developers do not actually pay for impact fees. <br />Andy Boler, Indian River Habitat for Humanity, said they are against any increase in <br />impact fees. He strongly recommended that the Board do not raise impact fees, but if the County <br />were to do so, he would have to ask for an exemption from any increase. <br />14 <br />March 6, 2008 <br />Public Workshop <br />