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wastewater service if their system should fail at some time in <br />the future. <br />Commissioner Bird noted that our issue is not with the <br />residents, but with the holder of the franchise; Commissioner <br />Wodtke felt the cost will pass on to the residents in the long <br />run, but Commissioner Scurlock believed they have a specific <br />provision in their lease that prevents this. <br />Attorney Brandenburg reported that a proposed purchaser has <br />asked us for information on the status of this situation. He did <br />not know, however, at what stage negotiations for a sale are. <br />Fred Messner, resident of Village Green and President of the <br />Federation of Mobile Home Owners for this district, which also <br />includes St. Lucie and Okeechobee Counties, informed the Board <br />that they have a very serious problem with impact fees in mobile <br />home parks and have decided to make a study of how these fees <br />have been set and how they are hitting the residents. He <br />believed this will cause a lot of court cases. Mr. Messner <br />informed the Board that Holiday Village Mobile Home Park is <br />already starting to have to pay $39.95 per month per home for the <br />next three years over and above their $180 monthly rent. These <br />are all old people in small mobile homes, not doublewides, and <br />this is all brought about by the impact fees. <br />Commissioner Wodtke pointed out that the County is not <br />imposing that $39.00 charge. <br />Mr. Messner agreed that the park owner is, but it is because <br />he has to pay it to the county; he is passing it through. He <br />continued that these old $8,000 trailers in Holiday Village Park <br />must pay this impact fee of $1,250 for wastewater and $1,250 for <br />water over <br />three years. <br />They <br />are going to <br />have <br />to <br />pay <br />for <br />something <br />that will last <br />fifty <br />years while <br />many <br />of <br />them <br />may only <br />live three or four more years. In Heron Cay you have a new park <br />with much more expensive units, and they still pay the same <br />impact fee, which doesn't seem equitable. Mr. Messner felt we <br />are driving these lower income oldsters out of town. Also, he <br />63 <br />BOOK U`U r'AGE4 ", <br />APHR 3 1 <br />J <br />