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DEC 171980 . . <br />BOOK 45 PAGE 438 <br />MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER FLETCHER THAT THE BOARD <br />PAY ALL THE EXISTING BILLS IN REFERENCE TO THE SOUTH COUNTY WATER <br />PROJECT, AND THEN GET OUT OF THE WATER BUSINESS IN THAT AREA. <br />PURPOSES. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE SECONDED THE MOTION FOR DISCUSSION <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE COMMENTED THAT THE BOARD MUST LIVE UP <br />TO THEIR AGREEMENT, RECENTLY SIGNED WITH THE CITY, TO PROVIDE WATER <br />IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA; HE ALSO WOULD CERTAINLY HOPE THAT THIS NEWLY <br />FORMED COMMISSION WOULD CARRY ON WITH THIS MATTER. HE STATED THERE <br />MAY BE SOME MATTERS THE BOARD MAY WANT TO READDRESS, BUT HE FELT THIS <br />PROGRAM MUST BE MOVED FORWARD. <br />COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK AGREED, <br />COMMISSIONER FLETCHER ADVISED THAT HE HAD BEEN DOING EXTENSIVE <br />READING REGARDING THE ISSUE OF UTILITY FRANCHISES, AND HE BELIEVED <br />THAT WHAT IS PLANNED FOR THAT AREA IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE PHILOSOPHY <br />TO LOWER THE DENSITY OF THIS COUNTY. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER ADDED <br />THAT THERE ARE 5,000 ACRES OF LAND IN THIS AREA AND NATURE IS SCREAMING <br />THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE LIVING ON THIS LAND; WE ARE SAYING THAT <br />TECHNOLOGY WILL TAKE CARE OF IT - THE PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED WITH <br />CENTRALIZED WATER AND SEWER. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER ALSO QUESTIONED <br />THE METHOD IN WHICH THE TAXING DISTRICT WAS SET UP. HE THEN REFERRED <br />TO THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY, AND QUOTED THE PHRASE, <br />"TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION," AND BELIEVED THAT THIS TAXING <br />DISTRICT WAS SET UP WITHOUT PERMISSION. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER FELT <br />THAT IF THE COUNTY WENT TO THE PEOPLE WITH THIS PROPOSAL, THEY WOULD <br />SAY NO. HE THOUGHT THE BOARD WAS SAYING THAT IT KNEW WHAT WAS BEST <br />FOR THE PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD GET WHAT THE BOARD WANTED WHETHER THEY <br />LIKED IT OR NOT. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER EMPHASIZED THAT HE DID NOT <br />AGREE WITH THE FORMULATION OF THE SOUTH COUNTY WATER PROJECT AND IF <br />PEOPLE WONDER AND QUESTION HIS "NO" VOTE OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, <br />THOSE WERE HIS REASONS. <br />COMMISSIONER BIRD THOUGHT THE BOARD WAS CHARGED WITH THE <br />RESPONSIBILITY FOR PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTY, AND TO <br />ACCOMMODATE THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE, HE THOUGHT THAT THE SOUTH <br />