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DEC 51979 42 PACE 218 ENGINEER JOHN ROBBINS NOTED THAT ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALREADY ON A FRANCHISE SYSTEM WILL BE REQUIRED TO CONNECT. HE STATED THAT THEIR ESTIMATES WERE BASED ON 80% OF THOSE IN THE AREAS WHICH ARE NOT NOW CONNECTED, AND MR. ENG FELT THAT OF THE OVER 500 AVAILABLE NOW ABOUT 478 WILL CONNECT. CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED HOW MANY THERE MAY BE AVAILABLE IN THE CLASSES OF FRANCHISE THAT STATE WHEN A COUNTY SYSTEM IS AVAILABLE.- THEY VAILABLE, THEY WILL TURN OVER THEIR LINES, I.E. TROPIC GROVE. MR, ROBBINS STATED THAT THEY ARE INCLUDED IN THE 600 ADDI- TIONAL BUILDINGS IN THE AREA. WHAT THEY DID NOT INCLUDE. IS VISTA PROP- ERTIES' MCKEE PROJECT, WHICH HE UNDERSTOOD INVOLVES 500-600 UNITS. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED WHAT RELATION THE GIFFORD SYSTEM HAS TO THIS, AND MR. EN -G STATED THAT IT IS JUST THE STANDARD BASE RATE: GIFFORD IS A SEPARATE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. ATTORNEY COLLINS ASKED IF THEY NEED THE RATE SCHEDULE IN EFFECT COUNTYWIDE OR WILL THEY ACCEPT A COMMITMENT THAT THE SYSTEM WILL BE PROPERLY FUNDED IN ORDER TO MOVE AHEAD? MR. ENG REPLIED THAT FMHA NEEDS A COMMITMENT THAT THE SYSTEM WILL BE PROPERLY FUNDED EITHER WITH A RATE IN CONJUNCTION WITH A UTILITY TAX OR BY HAVING A HIGHER RATE FOR THIS PART OF THE COUNTY. THE CHAIRMAN NOTED THAT HE HAS NO PROBLEM WITH CHARGING NEW CONSTRUCTION REASONABLE TAP -IN FEES TO PAY FOR THEIR PROPORTION- ATE SHARE. MR. ENG DISCUSSED HAVING THE DEVELOPER PAY FOR RESERVE CAPACITY AND POINTED OUT THAT IT TAKES A YEAR TO IMPLEMENT SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND THE FMHA HAS TO HAVE SOMETHING CONCRETE NOW. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN If HOOK-UP WERE MADE MANDATORY, AND MR. ENG STATED THERE WOULD BE ABOUT 100 MORE CONNECTIONS RIGHT NOW. COMMISSIONER LOY ASKED IF WE GET ALL THESE CUSTOMERS AND ADD ANOTHER 500 FROM VISTA PROPERTIES, WOULD WE GET TAP -IN FEES FROM THE ONES AT VISTA PROPERTIES, AND ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE WORKED OUT.