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COMMISSIONER LYONS FELT THAT HE WAS IN AGREEMENT WITH THE CONCEPT, AND IT WOULD BE HIS RECOMMENDATION THAT THE COUNTY SIGN THE AGREEMENT IF IT WILL SAVE US MONEY; OTHERWISE, HE WOULD NOT RECOM- MEND IT. ATTORNEY COLLINS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THERE IS AN ADDED INGREDIENT - THEY HAVE RECEIVED TWO OTHER AGREEMENTS. ONE SPECIFI- CALLY REFERS TO SEWER, AND HE FELT THAT WHAT THE CITY IS AFTER IS A TOTAL AMENDMENT OF THE 1973 AGREEMENT. HE BELIEVED THAT WE REALLY NEED TO SIT DOWN WITH THE CITY AND DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT AND STATED HE WAS PLANNING TO ATTEND A MEETING WITH THE CITY ON FRIDAY, THE ATTORNEYS INITIAL CONCLUSION WAS THAT WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HAS BEEN EXPANDED SUBSTANTIALLY BECAUSE UP TO THIS POINT WE NEVER HAVE TALKED ABOUT AMENDING THE AGREEMENT EXCEPT AS TO RATES OR CAPACITY CHARGES. HE NOTED THAT ORIGI- NALLY THERE WERE SOME OBJECTIONABLE PARAGRAPHS IN SOME OF THE AGREE- MENTS, AND THEY WERE ELIMINATED. IT SEEMS THEY NOW ARE STARTING TO REAPPEAR, ATTORNEY COLLLINS FELT THAT OTHER THAN RATES AND CAPACI- TIES, WE SHOULD AVOID THESE OTHER PARAGRAPHS WHICH VOID THE AGREE- MENT WE HAD IN 1973. COMMISSIONER LYONS AGREED THAT WHEN WE FIRST WERE TALKING ABOUT 6TH AVENUE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A WHOLESALE RATE, AND THIS KEEPS DEPARTING FURTHER AND FURTHER, AND IT SEEMS THERE IS A NEW DEAL. COMMISSIONER WODTKE STATED THAT HE WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE TO AMEND THE 1973 AGREEMENT, AND CHAIRMAN SIEBERT FELT THAT AMENDING THE 1973 AGREEMENT IS TO NO PURPOSE, THAT THE ENTIRE AGREEMENT MUST BE ADDRESSED. ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT AUTOMATICALLY HAPPENS AFTER A 10 YEAR PERIOD, WHICH IS ABOUT THREE YEARS FROM NOW. DISCUSSION RETURNED TO CONCEPTUAL APPROVAL OF THE MID FLORIDA AGREEMENT, AND ATTORNEY COLLINS FELT WE STILL ARE ASKING FOR SOMETHING IN THIS AREA AND, THEREFORE, ARE SUBJECT TO SOME PROVISIONS WE WOULDNIT BE OTHERWISE, BUT IN THE GIFFORD AREA WE SEP 2 41980 BOOK 44 PAGE 665