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geographic scope of the proposed agreement. The focus of recent meetings attended was to try to <br />identify reserved areas for each municipality, and those are the areas that each municipality seeks <br />to annex in the next 20 -year period. Director Keating said the committee was still working on <br />these issues trying to flush out a lot of the parameters of the annexations. <br />Commissioner Davis asked if Director Keating was suggesting that litigation would <br />help facilitate this process. Director Keating said he was not suggesting anything; he was only <br />stating the way things are going now, and that the Interlocal Service Boundary Agreement was not <br />following the intent of the County's responding resolution where everything is on the table. <br />Chairman Wheeler explained why he brought this item back to the Board. He felt <br />our resolution did not exclude the 18,000 acres, and referred to the Minutes where Mr. Nunemaker <br />agreed not to take the 18,000 annexations off the table, but would for certain others. Chairman <br />Wheeler believed there was legitimate reason to question and challenge the legality of the <br />application for the 4,000 acres. He outlined all the problems he has with Fellsmere's annexations. <br />He also felt it was important that this annexation be challenged and to see what could be done <br />about turning a large portion of the County over to the City of Fellsmere. <br />Commissioner Davis acknowledged that a Charter did not force this series of <br />annexations, but by a heavy-handed approach from this Commission. He believed the only way to <br />keep an open dialogue of the unknown was to not do it in front of a judge, and to keep it out of the <br />courtroom. He felt we have set the groundwork with the ILA, and wanted to see some transfer of <br />development rights from the agricultural areas to be set-aside in perpetuity. <br />Chairman Wheeler responded to Commissioner Davis's comments about a <br />heavy-handed approach, and inferiority. He stated that he was not inferring that the County was <br />superior or that Fellsmere was inferior because of the number of votes they had, but was simply <br />stating a fact that that many votes are determining the future of this County in a big way. He <br />July 10, 2007 37 <br />