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SEP 101990 BOOK 44 PAGE 541 <br />ADDITIONAL ALLOCATION WHICH INDIAN RIVER SHORES MIGHT REASONABLY <br />EXPECT TO RECEIVE IN THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS, MR. GREGG CONTINUED <br />THAT THE CITY COUNCIL WAS RECEPTIVE TO THE IDEA OF RELEASING ANY <br />EXCESS ALLOCATION TO INDIAN RIVER SHORES IF THEY HAD SUBSTANTIAL <br />REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE USAGE IN THE LONG RUN WOULD BE LESS THAN <br />THE 500,000 GPD, BUT HE FELT THAT WHAT THE COUNTY COMMISSION IS NOW <br />SAYING IS THAT, REGARDLESS OF THE CITY'S POSITION, THEY ARE GOING <br />TO OVERTURN WHAT HAS BEEN CONSIDERED TO BE THE ALLOCATION FOR THE <br />LAST SEVEN YEARS AND ARBITRARILY SET AN ALLOCATION OF 400,000 GPD. <br />HE ASKED IF THE COMMISSION INTENDED TO ADDRESS WATER AND ASSIGN <br />400,000 GPD FOR THAT ALSO. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT DID NOT FEEL THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR <br />NOT THE COUNTY SPECIFICALLY ALLOCATED 500,000 GPD IS THE REAL ISSUE <br />IF THE HOSPITAL DOESN'T NEED THAT MUCH, AND THE HOSPITAL BOARD HAS <br />INDICATED THAT 400,000 GPD IS ALL THEY NEED. <br />MR. GREGG POINTED OUT THAT THE HOSPITAL.ACTUALLY HAS NO <br />ALLOCATION THEMSELVES, AND THEY CAN'T RELEASE ANYTHING. <br />DISCUSSION THEN ENSUED AS TO HOW ALL THIS CAME ABOUT AND <br />WHY THE HOSPITAL WASN'T GIVEN A SPECIFIC ALLOCATION. CHAIRMAN <br />SIEBERT POINTED OUT THAT IN ORDER TO GET THE ORIGINAL GRANT, THE <br />CITY OF VERO BEACH HAD TO SAY THEY WERE SERVING AN ADDITIONAL 1.39 <br />MILLION GALLONS. THE 1.39 MILLION GALLONS WERE ALLOCATED FOR COUNTY <br />USE, AND SUBSEQUENT TO THAT, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE RESERVED <br />SUFFICIENT SEWAGE CAPACITY FOR THE HOSPITAL'S NEEDS, PRESENT AND FUTURE, <br />S0, UNDER A SEPARATE UNDERSTANDING, 500,000 GPD WERE SET ASIDE. THE <br />CHAIRMAN DID NOT BELIEVE THERE EVER WAS AN AGREEMENT, BUT THERE WAS <br />AN UNDERSTANDING. THE HOSPITAL NOW HAS SAID, BASED ON CURRENT CON- <br />SUMPTION, THAT THEY COULD FEEL COMFORTABLE RELEASING 100,000 GALLONS; <br />SO, IF THE COUNTY NOW MAKES AN OFFICIAL ALLOCATION OF 400,000 GPD, HE <br />COULD NOT SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS, <br />MR. GREGG STATED THAT WHEN THE CITY ACCEPTED THE HOSPITAL <br />DISTRICT AS A PERMANENT SERVICE, IT WAS FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, AND <br />THERE IS NO REVERSION FACTOR. HE FELT THERE OBVIOUSLY IS A PROBLEM <br />105 <br />