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MAR 191980 <br />900K 43 PAGE 52; <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER <br />DEESON, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED THE ATTORNEY TO ADVERTISE <br />FOR PUBLIC HEARING A PROPOSED ORDINANCE PROMULGATING A UNIFORM SET <br />OF CHARGES FOR NEW CONNECTIONS TO THE WATER AND SEWER UTILITY SYSTEMS <br />AND AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING A UNIFORM METHOD OF DETERMINING THE COST <br />OF EXTENSION OF MAINS FOR SANITARY SEWER AND/OR WATER SERVICE. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS COMMENTED THAT HE AND UTILITY DIRECTOR <br />LINER BOTH IDEALLY FEEL THAT THE COUNTY SHOULD HAVE A UNIFORM SET <br />OF RATES, AND AS WE EXPAND WE NEED TO HAVE A SET OF RATES THAT ARE <br />APPLICABLE TO THE EXPANDED AREAS. AT PRESENT THERE ARE DIFFERENT <br />LEVELS OF RATES IN THE COUNTY. THEY ARE, THEREFORE, RECOMMENDING <br />THAT THE COUNTY CONSIDER AUTHORIZING A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A <br />COUNTYWIDE RATE SCHEDULE. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER <br />DEESON, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED ADVERTISEMENT OF A PUBLIC <br />HEARING TO CONSIDER AN AMENDMENT OF ORDINANCE N0. 78-34 AS PRESENTED <br />BY UTILITY DIRECTOR LINER, SETTING RATES TO BE APPLIED UNIFORMLY <br />THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. <br />THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER THEREUPON RECESSED AT 12:10 <br />01CLOCK P.M. FOR LUNCH AND RECONVENED AT 1:45 WITH ALL MEMBERS <br />PRESENT,, COMMISSIONER WODTKE NOW BEING IN ATTENDANCE. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS REPORTED ON THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT BETWEEN <br />THE COUNTY, THE CITY OF VERO BEACH AND THE TOWN OF INDIAN RIVER SHORES <br />AND STATED THAT THE POSTURE WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW IS THAT THE COUNTY <br />PEOPLE HAVE ALL GONE THROUGH THE AGREEMENT AND MADE SUGGESTIONS. THE <br />ATTORNEY CONTINUED THAT HE HAS TAKEN THOSE SUGGESTIONS AND HAS MET <br />WITH CITY ATTORNEY TOM PALMER FOR MANY HOURS OVER THREE DAYS' TIME, <br />AND HE FEELS THEY NOW BASICALLY HAVE AN AGREEMENT OF WHAT THEY THINK <br />THEIR RESPECTIVE CLIENTS AGREE TO. MR. COLLINS NOTED THAT THEY HAVE <br />HAD NO INPUT FROM THE TOWN OF INDIAN RIVER SHORES, BUT HE FELT THAT <br />WITH OR WITHOUT INPUT FROM THE TOWN, WE SHOULD STRIVE TO SEEK AGREEMENT <br />WITH THE CITY OF VERO BEACH AND THAT THE BURDEN NOW WAS ON HIM TO <br />REDRAFT THE DOCUMENTS AND PUT THEM IN ORDER. <br />