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AUL - � <br />5 1984 BOOK 57 PAGE 776 <br />fee. <br />Commissioner Wodtke questioned the $19,450 consultant's <br />Administrator explained that the City and the County <br />are paying $15,000 apiece for the original Florida Cable <br />study, and the County agreed to pay an additional $4,500 for <br />some special work at Jones Intercable. <br />Chairman Scurlock felt that the money should be coming <br />out of the Utilities instead of the reserve for <br />contingencies because that department has a tremendously <br />good cash flow situation. <br />Administrator Wright pointed out that Utilities has <br />been totally funding the expense side and never receiving <br />any of the revenues. He explained that we are dealing with <br />some $850,000 in franchise monies which can be put either <br />into the Utilities Dept. or the MSTU, and from a budgetary <br />standpoint, he felt we would be in a better situation if the <br />monies were put into the MSTU because it would keep the <br />costs from mixing in with all of the other utility matters. <br />Chairman Scurlock understood that there soon will be a <br />separate franchise department set up, and then all franchise <br />fees that are generated will go into that account, and any <br />expenses incurred from operating the franchises will come <br />out of that account. <br />OMB Director Barton strongly recommended that the <br />revenue fees be put into the MSTU which generates those <br />fees, but the Commissioners were reluctant to have the <br />revenues going into the MSTU as they tend to get lost in <br />there and wished to have the monies go into the Utilities <br />fund instead. <br />Director Barton did not feel that it could be set up as <br />an enterprise situation because there are $850,000 worth of <br />franchise fees out there that would be going into a <br />department budgeted at $60,000, which would leave a large <br />8 <br />M <br />