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people, especially those new to Florida, do not understand the drainage problems they create by blocking the swales. Discussion followed on the possibility of using the special Assessment Ordinance as a vehicle to work with this situation. Public Works Director Davis explained that when petitions are received under the Petition Paving Program, the Engineering Department also designs drainage in that area. At the current time there is a meeting scheduled Friday in regard to three streets which are to be addressed in this manner; at that meeting recommendations will be made to the property owners as to drainage, and they will be given an option re culverts. Mr. Davis informed the Board that the City of Vero Beach not only designs the whole thing, but they assess for everything, including culverts; their cost per front foot for improvements are, accordingly, much higher than ours. He continued that we do have drainage crews, but they are working on a more or less crisis basis rather than on an on-going program. Chairman Scurlock emphasized that we should have an on-going program of maintaining and improving rather than just dealing with crises, and he believed we will have to get more aggressive in trying to prevent these problems. Considerable discussion ensued as to the need for a stronger ordinance to allow for better enforcement and also in regard to the legal aspects of the right-of-way problem and what authority the County crew has to act. It was noted that the property in the right-of-way does belong to the County, and it is there for a specific purpose. Attorney Brandenburg stated that the County has the privilege of removing any improvements the property owner places in the right-of-way. He noted the difficulty is that if we are going to make the improvements ourselves, we are going to have to find some mechanism to charge them back to the property owner. 24 BOOK 50 rAnt 404 JUL 14 1982