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the treatment plant beyond its current capacity of 4.5 M.G.D. The City presently expects to sewer the multi -family area on the Beach which will amount to approximately .7 M.G.D. The current treatment facility is treating approximately 2.0 M.G.D. Apparently the balance of 1.8 M.G.D. is available permanently to the Town of Indian River Shores and to the South Beach, and on an interim basis to other unincorporated portions of Indian River County as may be designated by the County Commission. Parenthetically, this would include the Sixth Avenue area where the Board has already allocated a part of the tri -partite sewer allocation. The major concern of the City is that the County will proceed in a prompt fashion to provide an alternative sewer treatment capacity so that when the City treatment plant reaches approximately 4.1 M.G.D. per day, the County will be in the position to accept the unincorporated load and treat it in a separate manner thus freeing up the County's previous customers for additional allocation by the City within the City's territorial service area. We mean by this that the City will serve portions of the unincorporated area with sewer up to a point and then the County must take over treatment of those areas and relieve the City of that burden. We held discussions of the concept of perhaps an interim plant South of the Sixth Avenue area until such time as the load would justify the cost of running a line to the North treatment plant. 3. It appears that there is a surplus in the Hospital's allocation. The County would agree to obtain from the Hospital Board of Trustees an Engineer's Certificate as to the actual allocation required by the Hospital over the next five or so years. At the same time, I believe the County should enter into a contract with the Hospital to accept treatment of the Hospital's sewer along with serving the Hospital with water at some designated time in the future. 4. The County would agree to adopt mutually advantageous ordinances to require service in some areas and to provide for the limitation of consumption on a uniform and equal basis in the event of drought, disaster, etc. 5. The City for providing water and sewer treatment would charge all customers, both in and out of City, Town or County, on an equal basis at a rate which would earn to the City a return consistent with the rate normally returned for such enterprises. Ad- ditionally, the City would void any utility tax presently being charged. To re-emphasize, out -of - the City residents are paying 10% more than in -the City residents and it is the City proposal to charge everybody on an equal and uniform basis whether they are residents of the City or not. 6. The City of Vero Beach will not be required to front any funds for captial, installations or improvements. This will be true even within the territorial service area, the Town of Indian River Shores or the South Beach. Historically we have seen front money for large developments come either through governmental loans, grants or developers' contributions and the City is expecting this pro- cedure to continue. The City and County will cooperate where necessary to develop various means of financing which would include the assessment of lot owners where necessary to generate capital to put in appropriate -2- OCT 2 41979 Boa 41 Facc'`U7