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OCT 29 1981 BOOK 47 ur,F 883 have hoped we could have done something with the Zoning fee structure. Growth is increasing demands, and in lieu of impact fees, a new measure would be that we look to new development generate some additional revenues to address some of these problems. He felt we should address the fee structure. Finance Officer Barton agreed and felt this should be done this year and gotten in place before March. He noted there is a difference between the fees charged by the City and the County; the County's being less, and at present we contract with the City for services. Chairman Lyons suggested that we adopt the Vero Beach fee system, which he believed is about loo higher, and the Board agreed we should proceed in this direction. Commissioner Wodtke felt we need to look at other counties' occupational licenses and fee structure. He noted that the City's occupational license fees are much higher than the County's. Commissioner Scurlock discussed the County Engineer and noted that we eliminated a whole department and combined them and now we have a Public Works i Department. We had a reduction of $117,000 and when we combined, we picked up $101,000, a difference of $16,000, which he did not understand. He asked if there are any new positions. Administrator Nelson stated that actually there are three positions less than the ten originally proposed. Last year we did not have a county engineer - now we also want a survey team and a rodman, and the traffic engineer is another part of the group. Commissioner Scurlock continued to review the total personnel in Public Works now, and Assistant Administrator Greene explained that we took engineering and public works and combined them, ending up with a net reduction of two employees. Originally two secretaries were proposed; one 30