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GDC IS GOING INTO A BIG EXPANSION PROGRAM AND ARE GOING TO REALIZE MORE FROM THIS INCREASE. SHE STATED SHE WOULD SUPPORT COMMISSIONER WODTKE'S RECOMMENDATION. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED ABOUT THE TIME INVOLVED'BETWEEN RATE INCREASES AND THE PROBLEMS THAT ARE ENCOUNTERED AS A RESULT. COMMISSIONER LYONS -DID NOT THINK HE COULD SUPPORT THE TOTAL REQUEST FROM GDC AND FELT COMMISSIONER WODTKE HAS MADE A REASONABLE COMPROMISE AND WOULD VOTE FOR'THE FIGURES THAT HE HAS SUGGESTED. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT SUGGESTED THAT ISR. LINER OF THE UTILITIES DEPARTMENT SHOULD LOOK AT THE FIGURES AS THERE IS SOME PROBLEM WHICH MIGHT PROVE A HIGHER YIELD THAN PRESENTED. COMMISSIONER WODTKE DISCUSSED GDC'S USED AND USEFUL ANALYSIS AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY COMPUTED IT. HE THEN REFERRED TO A TIME IN 1977 WHEN GDC CAME BEFORE THEM REGARDING THE COST OF A LIFT STATION AND SAID THEY WOULD PAY FOR IT IN THE TAP -IN FEE AND NOT INCREASE THE WATER AND SEWER RATES. COMMISSIONER WODTKE NOTED THAT GDC, PRIOR TO THE LAST MEETING, HAD A PROGRAM AT A LOCAL THEATER REGARDING THE PROJECT GOING ON IN THE VERO HIGHLANDS AREA, MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, SECONDED BY COM- MISSIONER LYONS, THAT THE BOARD ADOPT RESOLUTION N0. 80-15 APPROVING THE PROPOSED RATE INCREASE WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT WATER WILL BE $5.00 FOR THE FIRST 3.000 GALLONS, $1.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 1,000 GALLONS, AND $6.00 FOR SEWERAGE, ADJUSTED ON THE GENERAL SERVICES SCHEDULE AS PROPOSED. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED ABOUT RATES, AND ABOUT THE TYPICAL FAMILY RESIDENT MENTIONED IN THE LEGAL AD. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT FELT THAT "TYPICAL" RATES SHOULD NOT BE USED IN FUTURE LEGAL ADS. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY, ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AGREED THAT THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RESOLUTION Wo. 80-15 SHOULD BE FEBRUARY 1, 1980. RESOLUTION N0. 80-15 WILL BE MADE A PART OF THE MINUTES WHEN RECEIVED. JAN 231980 31 BOOK 42 face 578