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SEP <br />Mr. Wooten also felt his taxes are too high. He urged <br />the implementation of user fees as he felt many people <br />paying high taxes are not using a Tot of the service they <br />are paying for and that this is especially true in the area <br />of Parks and Recreation. He noted that this might make the <br />people who are taken off the Tax Roll because of the $25,000 <br />Homestead Exemption pay for some of these services. <br />Commissioner Scurlock assured Mr. Wooten that during <br />the 14st five or six years, the Commission has moved towards <br />the user fee <br />concept, i.e., the sanitary <br />landfill <br />and <br />utilities. <br />In addition, building permit <br />fees and <br />Planning <br />fees.have been doubled to try to implement a user fee <br />approach. <br />Mr. Mead then asked about the $85,000 increase in <br />Recreation in the General Fund, and Mr. Barton explained <br />that is an extended lifeguard program to protect our <br />beaches. <br />Discussion ensued about various transfers, and it was <br />noted that a study was commissioned for the proper <br />allocation of costs. <br />Sam White, President of the Moorings Property Owners <br />Association, noted that most of his constituents are'in the <br />retired category, and assessments of these types and <br />increases in the millage rate, hit people with fixed incomes <br />especially hard. He asked for a percentage figure of how <br />much the total budget of the county is going up this year <br />over last year, not in just the General Fund but all funds. <br />By his calculations, there was about a 17% increase. <br />Mr. Barton stated that.the 27 million figure he read <br />out to answer one man's inquiry involves all funds where the <br />Board of County Commissioners have jurisdiction. Those <br />funds do not mean.the same thing to everybody because no one <br />pays all of them. For instance, only those people in a <br />certain area in Gifford would pay the levy for the Gifford <br />9 <br />7 1983 .4 <br />a 9 <br />,1 r <br />