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F E B 15 1994 BOOR U PAGE4 Commissioner Bird asked if the water transfer is approved and we transfer the existing customers and the vested customers who have paid their reservation charge but have not yet received service, what happens to the remainder of the undeveloped, unvested County property in the South Beach area, as far as the City agreeing to serve these areas with future connections. Administrator Wright explained that all the people who have paid connection fees have availability to water. If the South Beach area is annexed, the City would service the area. If it is not annexed, we would be in a position to either go with something similar to North Beach Water, or it would be the responsibility of the individual developers. Chairman Scurlock stressed that there is no economically feasible vehicle other than the City of Vero Beach to service the South Beach area, and Administrator Wright agreed that even if the South Beach is not annexed, they would encourage the City to take the area into their service area. Utilities Director Pinto pointed out that the agreement states that not only does the County relinquish or turn over to the City the present assets we_have, but the entire South Beach becomes the service area of the City. The Board discussed the pros and cons of the transfer and agreed that the City of Vero Beach could best serve the area. Commissioner Bird did have some reservations about what we are doing to the remaining undeveloped property owners who are not vested. Utilities Director Pinto believed that the County would be really putting them in a much better position as far as the possibilities of getting water to them. He explained that if County were to build the river -crossing, the only people who would benefit would be the 1280 new customers at 30 10