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SEP 7 1953 5Ager Street Lighting District. In The Moorings, residents would be paying the General Fund, the Transportation Fund, the Beach Bonds, the MSTU, and the increase in those, excluding the Beach Bonds, is 1/6 of 1%. Mr. White stated that he had felt his figure must be wrong as he was conscious of the fact that the Commission is working very hard to cut expenses. He did believe, however, that we have to look for other sources of revenue as the people just can't afford to keep having these property taxes going up. Commissioner Scurlock agreed that an ad valorem tax is a very inequitable tax. Commissioner Wodtke noted that Mr. White's figure is right when you consider just the ad valorem tax, but that is only one source of income. The main problem is that the cash carry forward in the 1982-83 year was $3,000,000 while for 1983-84, it is only $1,047,000, and this is showing up in the ad valorem taxes because the state and federal sources have been cut back. Charles Wilson of Cutlass Cove stated that he was completely frustrated. From 1979 to the present, his taxes were increased 149%. While he realized that this is due to mandated"changes, etc., he is being priced out of his home, and he felt that somehow the message has got to get back to Tallahassee that it is just intolerable to entertain increases of this magnitude in four years. Commissioner Scurlock commented that the Commission has sent three or four resolutions in this vein to Tallahassee just this year and has also withheld our Mental Health funds because we don't feel we are getting a fair deal there. Howard Irwin of Painted Bunting Lane also hoped the Commission has gotten the message that the people cannot tolerate for the next four years the tax increases of the last four. Mr. Irwin stated that his dollars do not 10