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correctional facilities, and solid waste facilities. The March 13, 2012 vote of the Board of County Commissioners suspended the three fees until March 31, 2014. On March 11, 2014 the Board of County Commissioners voted to suspend the same three impact fees until March 31, 2015 or until the County could complete its most recent impact fee review and adopt a new impact fee schedule. By early April 2014 the County had completed the nonresidential portion of its impact fee review and on April 22, 2014 the Board of County Commissioners adopted a revised reduced nonresidential impact fee schedule with an effective date of May 5, 2014. The residential impact fee review was completed in September of 2014 and a revised residential impact fee schedule was adopted by the Board of County Commissioners on October 14, 2014 with an effective date of February 2, 2015. For both the nonresidential impact fee schedule and the residential impact fee schedule the Board of County Commissioners voted to not collect the correctional facilities, solid waste facilities, and libraries impact fees at this time. Figure 6.5 shows that over four million dollars of impact fee revenue was collected in FY 2013/14. This is over two million dollars more than what was collected in FY 2008/09. Impact fee revenues decreased during the Great Recession and have slowly increased since FY 2009/10. • Local Discretionary Sales Surtax Pursuant to s. 212.055, F.S, local governments are authorized to levy numerous types of local discretionary sales surtaxes. Under the provisions of s. 212.054, F.S., the local discretionary sales surtaxes apply to all transactions subject to the state tax imposed on sales, services, rentals, admissions, and other authorized transactions. The surtax is computed by multiplying the rate imposed by the county where the sale occurs by the amount of the taxable sale. This sales tax can be levied on most transactions under $5,000. According to state law, Indian River County is eligible to impose a Local Government Infrastructure Surtax of either 0.5% or 1.0%. Currently, Indian River County imposes the 1.0% Infrastructure Surtax. Figure 6.6: Local Discretionary Sales Surtax by FY $16,000 $14,000 $12,000 $10,000 $8,000 $6,000 $4,000 $2,000 $ S13,709 EMI 512,942 ■ ' 1 • • • • • 1 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 1 514,422 S15,228 $13 023 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 ■Revenue (in thousands) Source: Indian River County Finance Department Procedurally, the Local Government Infrastructure Surtax must be enacted by a majority vote of the Board of County Commissioners and approved by voters in a countywide referendum. That surtax, which may be imposed for a maximum period of fifteen years, was imposed by Indian River County in April, 1989, and was renewed by voters in November, 2002. Generally, the proceeds must be expended to finance, plan, and construct infrastructure; to acquire land for public recreation or Community Development Department Adopted i)ec . I , 2015, Ordinance 2015- 0 L 7 Indian River County 6