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F, MAR 19 1980- - a March 10, 1980 Mr. Jack Jennings County Administrator Indian River County 2145 14th Avenue Vero Beach, FL 32960 Re: Harbour Island Club Dear Jack: -ao�c 43 PAGE 58 Dean Luethje of Carter & Associates has advised me of something that may require the Board's action. Dean tells me that the engineers have asked for a two week extension on the engineering work for upgrading the package treatment plant and lift station servicing the Harbour Island project, Vera Cruz, Pebble Bay, Pebble Beach Villas and others. A suggestion was made that the developers of the Harbour Island project contribute $40,000.00 to the cost of the work that the county has commited to perform on this system. My client feels that this is unacceptable and arbitrary. In reviewing the matter, I have gone over my file and find that, prior to my client's purchase of the property and prior to commitment and commencement of construction, I appeared with my client before the Board to clarify the situation. At that time, there was on record a commitment from the County to provide sewer collection and treatment service to my client's property for $15,000.00. I understood that that was unrealistic, and advised my client of that fact. On the basis of my advice, at the Board meeting I attended, my client released the County from its $15,000.00 commitment. I had no wish to embarrass the County or to back the Board•intg-a""corner on what was clearly unfair. At that meeting, there was a motion, which passed unanimously, that the County would "accept.sewage from Indian Summer through a renovated.package plant or by connection to the City of Vero Beach, Indian Summer to be expected to pay a proportional charge for the cost of making the system operable". This was fair and I accepted it on behalf of the prospective purchaser of Indian Summer, now known as Harbour Island. At the meeting of December 19, 1979, of the Board of County Commissioners, the subject was presented again by Sperdlup and Parcel and Jim Beindorf's office, consulting engineers for the project, through John Robbins in a scope of work. At that meeting, the County authorized Robbins to proceed and indicated that the work must be done. A part of the scope of work presented by the engineers was a cost sharing analysis to determine the pro rata cost of improvements to the system for the users of the system. John Robbins indicated that the system had a capacity for three hundred users. This, again, was acceptable and fair.