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JUN 21982 SOK49 Ftic 901 Utility Director Liner reviewed the facts set out in his memos in regard to advising Attorney Sundstrom that certain conditions must be met before we could set up the date for a public hearing, and noted that Attorney Sundstrom is the one who arranged to get the ad in the paper to meet the required deadline. Attorney U-randenburg explained that the Utilities Department has adopted an in-house procedure whereby they treat these notices the same as if for adoption of an ordinance. The subject ad does not meet the requirements of the in-house procedure, but it does meet the law regarding notice as set out in the Utilities Act, and, therefore, the Board has the latitude to adopt the franchise today, if desired. He continued that another aspect of the public hearing is notification that a person may bring a transcriber to the meeting. This was left out of the ad, but the applicant has brought a court reporter and so that defect has been cured by that action. Chairman Scurlock felt that we must give a great deal of credit to the North Beach developers for their desire to move forward with the North Beach Water Company and provide an overall plant for service for that entire area of the barrier island, but, although there is a "roll-over" provision in the proposed River Bend franchise, he did not find it satisfactory in that he believed it did not keep up the motivation to follow through with the formation of the North Beach Water Company. The Chairman believed issuing an interim franchise to River Bend was the wrong sequence of things, and based on the existing document as presented, he would be in opposition to it. It appears, however, that Florida Land Company has worked out some additional provisions with Attorney Brandenburg, and,he felt it would be appropriate for the Board to at least hear what these are. k