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VARIOUS WATER & WASTEWATER SERVICE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN CITY OF VERO <br />BEACH AND THE COUNTY <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT REMARKED THAT THE ONE THING THAT BOTHERS <br />HIM IN REVIEWING ALL THE VARIOUS AGREEMENTS IS THE REQUIREMENT TO <br />PUT A MORATORIUM ON CONNECTIONS WHEN THE CITY SAYS THEY RUN OUT OF <br />CONNECTIONS. HE FELT THAT IS NOT UNREASONABLE IF THEY RUN OUT OF <br />CONNECTIONS FOR EVERYBODY, INCLUDING THE CITY OF VERO BEACH. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED THAT IN EVERY AGREEMENT THEY HAVE <br />PROVISIONS RECOGNIZING THAT THE CITY OF VERO BEACH DOES HAVE CAPACITY <br />LIMITATIONS BUT CITY AND COUNTY CUSTOMERS WILL BE TREATED THE SAME, <br />AND HE WOULD NOT THINK THAT A MORATORIUM WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR <br />UNINCORPORATED COUNTY CUSTOMERS UNLESS THERE WAS A CORRESPONDING <br />CURTAILMENT WITHIN THE CITY OF VERO BEACH. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS SUMMARIZED THE CHAIRMAN'S CONCERN AS TO <br />EACH AGREEMENT, NOTING THAT ON THE SOUTH BEACH WATER SERVICE, IT <br />DOESN'T APPLY, AND ON THE SOUTH BEACH WASTEWATER SERVICE, THE SOUTH <br />COUNTY MAINLAND WASTEWATER SERVICE, AND ON THE MID FLORIDA SERVICE <br />AREA WATER AGREEMENTS, IT DOESN'T APPLY EITHER BECUASE THERE IS A <br />LIMITED CAPACITY; S0, WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS CONCERN, IS <br />THE NORTH COUNTY MAINLAND WATER SERVICE AGREEMENT WHERE THE CITY <br />IS WHOLESALING WATER TO US, IN THAT AGREEMENT, WE HAVE A CAPACITY <br />LIMITATION OF 700,000 GALLONS PER DAY, ATTORNEY COLLINS WAS NOT <br />OVERLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE CHAIRMAN'S CONCERN BECAUSE HE FELT WE <br />HAVE OUR OWN BUILT-IN LIMITATIONS. HE NOTED IN THEIR DISCUSSIONS <br />THAT PROVISION WAS THOUGHT OF IN TERMS OF SOME SHORT TERM CRISIS <br />THAT MIGHT ARISE AND THEN THE FEELING WAS THAT EVERYBODY WOULD BE <br />TREATED INFORMALLY AND EQUALLY. THE CONTRACT THAT HAS THE GREATEST, <br />FREEDOM IS THE SOUTH BEACH WATER SERVICE AGREEMENT WHICH LIMITS THE <br />CAPACITY TO THE SIZE OF THE LINE; EVERY OTHER AGREEMENT HAS A TOP <br />CEILING. ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT HIS COMMENTS ARE NOT ADDRESSED <br />TO THE TOWN, CITY,COUNTY SEWER AGREEMENT, WHICH HE FELT SHOULD BE <br />ADDRESSED SEPARATELY. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE COMMENTED THAT THESE AGREEMENTS REPRESENT <br />A TREMENDOUS TASK AND THERE A LOT OF CROSS REFERENCES, WHICH HE ASSUMED <br />HAVE BEEN CHECKED CLOSELY TO SEE THAT THEY DO NOT CONFLICT. <br />69 <br />OCT 2 21980 Boot 45 PAGE fig <br />